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The discursive construction of community identity
Author(s) -
Colombo Monica,
Senatore Azzurra
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of community and applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1099-1298
pISSN - 1052-9284
DOI - 10.1002/casp.809
Subject(s) - identity (music) , meaning (existential) , sociology , context (archaeology) , discourse analysis , epistemology , order (exchange) , social psychology , gender studies , psychology , linguistics , aesthetics , philosophy , paleontology , finance , economics , biology
The aim of this article is to illustrate how a discourse‐oriented approach would open new theoretical and methodological perspectives to the study of community identity. Here outlined is the idea that community identity is discursively constructed by members in order to lend meaning to experience. An analysis of how community identity is constructed in subjects' discourse with reference to the local context is presented. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.