Political Identity in Discourse The Voices of New Zealand Voters
"Giving voters their voice, Woodhams’ interview-based study offers a richly inflected portrayal of political identity in New Zealand. At once fluid and stable, these voices nuance the meanings of political tenets such as egalitarianism and its converse, t
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Political Identity in Discourse “In Political Identity in Discourse: The Voices of New Zealand Voters, Jay Woodhams provides a meticulous, rigorous and careful account of everyday political talk. At a time when politics is increasingly focused on ‘the people’, the emphasis on ordinary voters—rather than politicians or elites—is refreshing but also timely. This is important reading for anyone interested in ‘bottom-up’ approaches to analysing political discourse.” —Sam Browse, Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Jay M. Woodhams
Political Identity in Discourse The Voices of New Zealand Voters
Jay M. Woodhams Australian National University Canberra, Australia
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Preface
The seeds of this book were sown in early 2012, when I submitted a doctoral research proposal to the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. It was somewhat ambitiously titled The Discursive Construction of Political Identity. What sprouted three years later was not at all what I’d envisaged, as is often the case with doctoral journeys. A dive into philosophy and I’d emerged with my taken-for-granted assumptions thrown into question; for example, I chose to jettison the metaphor of ‘construction’, as the call of critical realism encouraged me to examine the theory-laden nature of the words I used in my work. The resultant 2015 thesis was one-part philos
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