Charles Antaki is Reader in Language and Social Psychology at Loughborough University. Sue Widdicombe is Lecturer in Social Psychology at Edinburgh University.

CONTRIBUTORS

Dennis Day Goteborg University

Robert Dingwall University of Nottingham

Anne Dunnett Moray House Institute of Education

Derek Edwards Loughborough University

David Greatbatch University of Nottingham

Stephen Hester University of Wales Bangor

Andy McKinlay University of Edinburgh

Isabella Paoletti INCRA Ancona

Rob Woffitt University of Surrey

Don Zimmerman University of California Santa Barbara

Identity as an Achievement and as a Tool - Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe
PART ONE: SALIENCE AND THE BUSINESS OF IDENTITY
The Relevant Thing about Her - Derek Edwards
Social Identity Categories in Use
How Gun Owners Accomplish Being Deadly Average - Andy McKinlay and Anne Dunnett
`But You Don¿t Class Yourself¿ - Sue Widdicombe
The Interactional Management of Category Membership and Non-Membership
Identity Ascriptions in Their Time and Place - Charles Antaki
`Fagin¿ and `The Terminally Dim¿
PART TWO: DISCOURSE IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL IDENTITIES
Identity, Context and Interaction - Don Zimmerman
Mobilizing Discourse and Social Identities in Knowledge Talk - Robin Wooffitt and Colin Clark
Talk and Identity in Divorce Mediation - David Greatbatch and Robert Dingwall
PART THREE: MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND THEIR PRACTICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RELEVANCE
Describing `Deviance¿ in School - Stephen Hester
Recognizably Educational Psychological Problems
Being Ascribed, and Resisting, Membership of an Ethnic Group - Dennis Day
Handling `Incoherence¿ According to the Speaker¿s On-Sight Categorization - Isabella Paoletti
PART FOUR: EPILOGUE
Identity as an Analysts¿ and a Participants¿ Resource - Sue Widdicombe