Interaction and identity (1st edition.)

Scholarly interest in issues of self-identity has exploded across disciplines within the humanities and social sciences in recent years.

Common to these concerns are the assumptions that self-identity is not a priority, not given or fixed, but created in the process of communication.

This also assumes that social institutions and values are produced and reproduced by individuals in interaction.

To capture the essential characteristics of a person requires analysis of how the social and psychological intersect in moments of communication.

This book contribues, theoretically and empirically, to contemporary scholarly interest in issues of identity.