Analysing Citizenship Talk -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Introduction -- Aims of the book -- Part I:Communicating citizenship as research subject -- Part II:Methodological aspects -- Part III: Empirical aspects -- Notes -- I. Communicating citizenship as research subject -- Communicating citizenship and social positioning -- Communicating citizenship in administrative decision-making procedures - the basic idea -- Governance and citizenship:The role of participation at scientific and technological crossroads -- Biotechnology governance and the "participatory turn" in the EU -- Participation and social positioning -- Procedure, procedural justice, and the form of decision-making -- Democratising expertise - A question of communicating citizenship -- Notes -- References -- Licensing plant GMOs -- The scientific debate about the regulation of green biotechnology -- Citizen participation in licensing procedures on genetically modified organisms -- References -- Procedure and participation -- Agriculture biotechnology:From innovation enthusiasm to caution -- Theoretical reflections on procedures -- Framing in procedures and the framing of procedures -- Notes -- References -- II. Communicating citizenship as a methodological challenge -- Reconstructing social positioning in discourse -- Introduction -- Empirical reconstruction:the starting point -- Social positioning as conversational work:tasks, means and forms -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Critical Discourse Analysis and Citizenship -- Researching citizenship -- Constructing the object of research -- A practical and theoretical framework for the analysis of participatory events -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- A critical comparison of the investigative gaze of three approaches to text analysis.

Observing the surface of discourse as truth:Schegloff's interpretation of conversation analysis -- Critical discourse analysis and its contribution to expanded fields of vision on the text -- The role of a distancing vision in Critical Discourse Analysis -- The importance of a 'multi-perspectivism' to social positioning theory's interpretations of discourse -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Communicating citizenship in verbal interaction -- Outline of the proposed approach -- Aspects of the communication of citizenship -- Two problems to be expected in application -- Notes -- References -- Communicative involvement in public discourse -- Introduction -- Ethnographic investigation of the field of discourse -- Communicative involvement and interactional profiles - Expansions of an analytic conception -- Approximations to discourse profiles in a meeting on the release of genetically manipulated plants -- General examples concerning other decision making procedures -- Final remarks:Proposals for the analysis of modes of citizenship -- Notes -- References -- III. Communicating citizenship in discourse -- Opening up the public space -- Introduction -- The invitation -- The event -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Personal reference, social categorization and the communicative achievement of citizenship -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 On social categorization -- 1.2 Methodological assumptions -- 1.3 The structure of the paper -- 2. Sequential analysis -- 2.1 Preliminary remarks -- 2.2 The opening statement of the chairwoman -- 2.3 The contribution of the representative of the national office, the BBA -- 2.4 The statement from the representative of a biofarm -- 2.5 The contribution of the deputy head of the local farming community, a conventional farmer -- 2.6 The professor's statement -- 2.7 The reception of the professor's contribution.

3 The systematisation of the findings -- 3.1 Preliminary remarks -- 3.2 The linguistic means of social categorization -- 3.3 The reconstruction of the social categories -- 3.4 Social positions and their characteristics -- 4. Conclusions and open questions -- 4.1 Conclusions -- 4.2 Open questions -- Notes -- References -- Quotations as a vehicle Quotations as a vehicle for social positioning1 -- Quotations in private talks:Three methodological starting points -- Recent research on quotations -- Quotations in public debates -- Notes -- References -- On doing being personal -- Introduction -- Categorization and identity -- Data and setting -- Speaking 'as a citizen' -- Being addressed as a citizen -- The 'and also' quality of being a citizen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Data extracts from a local public meeting on GMO field trials -- Transcription and notations -- Reproduction of the Invitation Leaflet -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.