Scollon (1997) noted that every action is identity telling. Taking this notion as my foundation, this presentation addresses the questions:

Who are you?

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How do others know?

Taking a multimodal (inter)action analytical point of view, this plenary unpacks the complexity of everyday personal identity production. Delving into theoretical notions such as social-time-place, identity elements, scales of actions, or the site of engagement, the presentation shows how we can analyse our own and others’ everyday personal identity production. Using the theoretical concepts as my analytical tools, I demonstrate how concrete micro-level actions are linked to meso-level practices and macro-level societal discourses, all of which lead us to more or less agentively and more or less non-agentively produce our personal identity.