Forms of Positioning in the Dialogical Self: A System of Classification and the Strange Case of Dame Edna Everage

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 355-382

  Raggatt, Peter T f ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barry Humphries; conflict; dialogical self; identity; personality; positioning theory; social constructionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347364777     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354307077288     Document Type: Article

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