Constructing Identities at Work

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-32315-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marra, M.

Angouri, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables Foreword; F.Bargiela-Chiappini Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Investigating the Negotiation of Identity: A View From 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 Co?Constructing Professional Identities at Work; S.Schnurr & O.Zayts Chairing International Business Meetings: Investigating Humour and Leadership Style in the Workplace; P.Rogerson?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 Go To the Garden To Take The Rain': Researcher Identity And The Observer's Paradox; A.De Fina Index

Über Autor(innen)

FRANCESCA BARGIELA-CHIAPPINI Honorary Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK
ANNA DE FINA Associate Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics in the Italian Department at Georgetown University, USA
ALEXANDRA GEORGAKOPOULOU Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics at King's College London, UK
EVA-MARIA GRAF Assistant Professor at the University of Klagenfurt, Germany, where she teaches Professional Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and Language Acquisition
VERONIKA KOLLER Senior Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK
KEITH RICHARDS Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK
PAMELA ROGERSON-REVELL works in the School of Education at the University of Leicester, UK
STEPHANIE SCHNURR Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK
JAN SVENNEVIG Professor of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Oslo, Norway
KAREN TRACY Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
OLGA ZAYTS Research Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong