'We're not ethnic, we're Irish!': Oral histories and the discursive construction of immigrant identity
This article examines how national and immigrant identities are discursively constructed through the use of oral histories, using a corpus of 15 oral-history interviews (25 hours of transcribed talk) collected from members of the Irish Association of Man... read article

Hate speech and identity: An analysis of neo racism and the indexing of identity
In the academy and society at large, there remains an area of discourse largely deemed too marginal to analyze at any length: openly racist speech. It remains unexamined, in part, because much attention has been given to ‘covert’ racism. Rece... read article

Beggars are sometimes the choosers!
Beggars are a group of people for whom making a successful speech is of paramount importance. Therefore, social and linguistic analysis of their speech seems to be a new and much needed line of inquiry that has not yet been elucidated. To this end, relyi... read article

'I'm not gonna hit a lady': Conversation analysis, membership categorization and men's denials of violence towards women
This article examines the way male suspects deny accusations of assaulting women in interrogations by police officers. It draws on a large corpus of British police interrogation materials, and uses conversation analysis to shed light on the location and ... read article

Book reviews:
Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff and Indermohan Virk (eds), Classical Sociological Theory (2nd edn). Malden, Oxford and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. xii + 496 pp. US$42.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781405148542. Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff and Indermohan Virk (eds), Contemporary Sociological Theory (2nd edn). Malden, Oxford and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. xii + 489 pp. US$42.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781405148566
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