Constructing identities at work

Constructing identities at work

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This edited collection presents cutting edge research on the process of identity construction in professional and institutional contexts, from corporate workplaces, to courtrooms, classrooms, and academia. The chapters consider how interactants do identity work and how identity is indexed (often in subtle ways) in workplace discourse. JO ANGOURI Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Jo's areas of research specialisation are sociopragmatics and discourse analysis. Her current research focus is on discourse in a range of professional and health care settings. She has published work on meeting talk, workplace written discourse and (foreign) language use and language policy in the corporate workplace as well as the application and implications of sociolinguisticresearch. Jo has just completed a project on teamwork and leadership in medical emergencies. . MEREDITH MARRA is a member of the Wellington Language in theWorkplace Project team and a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she teaches a range of courses in sociolinguistics. Meredith's primary research interest is the language of business meetings, and she has published in the areas of humour and gender in workplace interactions in 'Language in Society', the 'Journal of Politeness Research' and 'Text & Talk'. She is co-author of 'Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity'. INDICE: List of Tables - Foreword; 'F.Bargiela-Chiappini - 'Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Investigating the Negotiation of Identity: A ViewFrom the Field of Workplace Discourse; 'M.Marra' & 'J.Angouri - 'PART I: LEADERSHIP IDENTITY IN BUSINESS CONTEXTS - Leadership Style in Managers' Feedback in Meetings; 'J.Svennevig - 'Be(Com)Ing a Leader: A Case Study of Cob Constructing Professional Identities at Work; 'S.Schnurr' & 'O.Zayts - 'Chairing International Business Meetings: Investigating Humour and Leadership Style in the Workplace; 'P.Rogersonb Revell - ''OK One Last Thing for Today Then': Constructing Identities in Corporate Meeting Talk; 'J.Angouri' & 'M.Marra - 'PART II: RHETORIC, EXPERTISE AND IDEOLOGY IN IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION - 'Hard-Working, Team-Oriented Individuals': Constructing Professional Identities in Corporate Mission Statements; 'V.Koller - ''Yes Then I Will Tell You Maybe a Little about the Procedure'- Constructing Professional Identity Where There is Not Yet a Profession: The Case of Business Coaching; 'E-M.Graf - 'PART III: PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES IN INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS - Teachers, Students and Ways of Telling in Classroom Sites: A Case of Out of(Work)Place Identities; 'A.Georgakopoulou - 'Identity-Work in Appellate Oral Argument: Ideological Identities within a Professional One; 'K.Tracy - 'Engaging Identities: Personal Disclosure and Professional Responsibility;' K.Richards - ''We Are Not There. In Fact Now We Will GoTo the Garden To Take The Rain': Researcher Identity And The Observer's Paradox; 'A.De Fina - 'Index -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-27237-8
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 288
  • Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés