The discursive construction of the german welfare state: interests and institutionality

This article consists of an initial theoretical attempt to describe “interests” as widespread social phenomena which emerge specifically from discursive interaction. I focus on the way in which the indexical signaling of discourse participation roles and public/private standings provide key conditions of possibility for the emergence of interests in interactional real time. The case at hand involves the German welfare state, a social institution which is constituted both on the local level of my fieldsite (a working-class suburb of the former East Berlin) and on the national level (through the popular media and through the circulation of laws, policy documents and the like). [Germany, welfare state, interests, indexical orders, institutionality].

3 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31] Citation Key: ISI:000271963200007 Citation Key Alias: lens.org/101-266-632-180-303 tex.unique-id: [object Object]