Clifton2015
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Clifton2015 |
| Author(s) | Jonathan Clifton |
| Title | Using identities-in-talk as a persuasive strategy: The case of police crisis negotiations with Mohamed Merah, a self-proclaimed Mujahedin |
| Editor(s) | Razvan Saftoiu, Maria-Ionela Neagu, Stanca Mada |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Identity, Crisis, Police |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2015 |
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| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 179–200 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/ds.26.09cli |
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| Series | Dialogue Studies |
| Howpublished | |
| Book title | Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue |
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Abstract
Despite the fact that much has been written on crisis negotiations, very little literature actually looks at the turn by turn identity work that is employed to do persuasion. Taking a social constructionist approach to identity, and using transcripts of negotiations between police negotiators and Merah, a self-proclaimed Mujahedin, this paper reveals the identity work that is strategically deployed in an attempt to persuade Merah to surrender peacefully. Findings indicate that, on the one hand, the police do identity work that negates the relevance of the default identities Mujahedin/Kafir, and on the other hand they do identity work that makes relevant alternative identities that make a peaceful solution more likely.
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