Sierra2023

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Sierra2023
BibType ARTICLE
Key Sierra2023
Author(s) Sylvia Sierra
Title “A radical point of view”: The discursive construction of the political identity of student activists
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Tag(s) EMCA, authentication, discourse analysis, epistemics, political identity, epistemic stance, identity construction
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Year 2023
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Journal Discourse & Society
Volume 34
Number 6
Pages 772-788
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DOI 10.1177/09579265231174983
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Abstract

Recently there has been renewed interest in the intersection of identity and epistemics in social interaction, yet epistemics has still rarely been analyzed in political identity construction. This paper combines research on identity from a sociocultural linguistic perspective with epistemics using Conversation Analysis. The focus here is on understanding how a small group of student activists construct their shared political identities through epistemic stances towards their academic majors and career goals. Through a discourse analytic study of conversational data among these activists, I demonstrate the validity of the relationality principle of identity in accounting for how identities are constructed as related to one another. Furthermore, I examine the relational process of authentication in epistemic stances to legitimate claims to knowledge regarding political and academic identities, as well as alignment of stances in building group solidarity and shared political identity.

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