The discursive emergence of the cultural actor: Commentary on He, Kang, and Lo

Urciuoli, Bonnie

doi:10.1075/prag.14.2-3.09urc

Article published In: Relationality: Discursive constructions of Asian Pacific American identities
Edited by Adrienne Lo and Angela Reyes
[Pragmatics 14:2/3] 2004
► pp. 257–261

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The discursive emergence of the cultural actor

Commentary on He, Kang, and Lo

Bonnie Urciuoli

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Published online: 1 June 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.14.2-3.09urc

This commentary compares and discusses the ways that discourse analyses by He, Kang and Lo, this volume, demonstrate the indexical, contingent, complex and ongoing nature of cultural process, manifest at the micro-level of ordinary interaction.

Keywords: Indexicality, Cultural process, Emergent identity

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