“Being Stuck between Two Worlds” – Identity Configurations of Occupational and Family Identities

AbstractThis study investigates the construction of political identity in the 2011–2012 US Republican presidential primary debates. Focusing on candidates’ self-introductions, I analyze how candidates use references to family members and roles to frame their political identities or ‘presidential selves’. Family references are shown to (i) frame candidates’ personal identities as family men/women; (ii) interweave the spheres of home and politics and consequently, their private and public selves; (iii) serve as a tool of discursive one-upmanship in self-introduction sequences; and (iv) demonstrate intimate familiarity and expertise on the topic of national security. This study extends research on family discourse and identity by examining the rhetorical function of mentioning family-related identities in explicitly persuasive public discourse, and contributes to sociolinguistic research on political discourse by examining how family identities serve as a resource for framing political identities. (Discourse analysis, framing, family, identity, political discourse, presidential debates, sequentiality)

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Earthly and Heavenly Networks in a World in Flux: Carolingian Family Identities and the Prague Sacramentary

Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages - The Prague Sacramentary ◽

10.1484/m.celama-eb.5.108020 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 203-223

Author(s):

Stuart Airlie

Keyword(s):

Family Identities

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The Global Extended Family: Identities and Relatedness

Families, Intimacy and Globalization ◽

10.1057/978-1-137-33860-0_7 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 116-135

Author(s):

Raelene Wilding

Keyword(s):

Extended Family ◽

Family Identities

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The Kujujī Poets: Families, Poetry and Forms of Patronage in Azerbaijan and beyond (Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)

Eurasian Studies ◽

10.1163/24685623-12340038 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 250-279

Author(s):

Christoph Werner

Keyword(s):

Professional Background ◽

Family Network ◽

Reciprocal Relationships ◽

Court Poetry ◽

Persian Poetry ◽

Family Identities ◽

Literary Anthologies ◽

The Relationship

Abstract Tracing the extended Kujujī family unit, originally from Western Azerbaijan, through the fourteenth up to the seventeenth century, I am especially interested in the interplay between members of the Kujujī family, their professional background, and the poetry they composed. Poetry is interpreted as a mode of transmission, understanding panegyric and mystical forms of poetry as a means to shape and reinforce family identities in reciprocal relationships – in our case the relationship between the local Sufi-notable family network of the Kujujīs with the respective ruling families of the Jalayirids and Safavids. The article explores their poetry, the poets as actors of transmission and the links that are created between distant members of the “imagined” family of the Kujujīs as expressed in literary anthologies (taẕkiras). Moving beyond traditional perceptions of one-on-one, client-patron relations in the production of court poetry and emphasizing the role of families creates a long-term perspective and re-evaluates classical Persian poetry as intra-generational cultural bond.

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