We invite you to hear Dr. Kang-kwong Luke from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as Distinguished Visitor to the University of Alberta speak at the East Asian Studies Colloquium on March 1st at 4:00pm in Pembina 3-58. A reception will follow in Pembina 3-11.
On the use of multiple ethnic identities as an interactional resource
K.K. Luke, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Previous work on identity negotiation and identity ascription has found that identities are regularly used by conversational participants in the service of interactional goals. Of interest in this body of work is not so much the identity categories themselves but "what people do with categorical descriptions" (Edwards 1998). In this paper, we offer some further examples of how ethnic identities are invoked in the service of a range of interactional contingencies in a set of video recordings made recently in Singapore.