Claiming and displaying national identity: Irish Travellers' and students' strategic use of 'banal' and 'hot' national identity in talk

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 450-468

  Joyce, Carmel ^a   Stevenson, Clifford ^a   Muldoon, Orla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; IRELAND; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; POLITICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884145159     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: 20448309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2012.02097.x     Document Type: Article

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