Conversational agreement and racial formation processes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2886573 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valentina Pagliai (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 549-579 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404509990431 |
| OpenAlex | W1996782906 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 49 |
Recent scholarship on the working of racial formation processes underscores the intersection between discursive and structural components in the emergence of "race," and the agency of individuals at the local and global level in articulating its meaning. This article offers a link toward understanding how racial formation processes operate in face-to-face interaction, by highlighting how people do racialization. Based on fieldwork in Italy, it explores how conversationalists deploy agreement to co-construct a racialized image of immigrants to Italy. It is argued that this deployment leads to reinforcement of the racist stances expressed in the conversation itself, and possibly beyond it. In addition, the repeated occurrence of agreement during the co-construction of utterances produces a spiral effect around racializing discourse, a progressive deepening of the racialization itself. At the same time, agreement leads to a decrease of personal responsibility for the statements made, which come to be co-constructed among conversationalists. (Agreement, racialization, immigration, Italy
Agency (philosophy) · Construct (python library) · Conversation · Face (sociological concept) · Immigration · Intersection (aeronautics) · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Race (biology) · Racialization · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |