The Discursive Construction of the German Welfare State

Interests and Institutionality

Bibliographic Data

ID2278296
AuthorsK Mcgill (0000-0002-2450-7194)
Year2009
Volume19
Issue2
Pages266-285
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1395.2009.01034.x
OpenAlexW2035014284
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited11

This article consists of an initial theoretical attempt to describe "interests" as widespread social phenomena which emerge specifically from discursive interaction. I focus on the way in which the indexical signaling of discourse participation roles and public/private standings provide key conditions of possibility for the emergence of interests in interactional real time. The case at hand involves the German welfare state, a social institution which is constituted both on the local level of my fieldsite (a working-class suburb of the former East Berlin) and on the national level (through the popular media and through the circulation of laws, policy documents and the like). [Germany, welfare state, interests, indexical orders, institutionality

Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology

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