Constructing Identities at Work

By: Jo Angouri (Editor), Meredith Marra (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 January 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Through language we show who we are and where we belong. In the workplace context this includes the way we construct ourselves as the team leader, meeting chair, a good colleague, the judge, a teacher or the researcher. Constructing Identities at Work presents cutting edge research on the process of identity construction in professional and institutional contexts, from corporate workplaces, to courtrooms, classrooms, and academia. The authors illustrate the range of foci, methodologies and approaches prevalent in the newly established field of workplace discourse, demonstrating how interactants do identity work and how identity is 'indexed' (often in subtle ways) in workplace discourse. Moving beyond unhelpful static universalities about how all women, all English-speakers, or all old people behave linguistically, each of the authors emphasise the contextualised nature of our everyday lives, and the ways in which we negotiate and renegotiate our emerging identities with others. Among the chapters there are examples of a range of different theoretical approaches to identity in linguistics, from the prevalent social constructionist lens to the micro-level detail accessible through Conversation Analysis, and the quantitative analysis offered by corpus linguistics.

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List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Foreword	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
Investigating the Negotiation of Identity: A View from the Field of Workplace Discourse	p. 1
Leadership Identity in Business Contexts
Leadership Style in Managers' Feedback in Meetings	p. 17
Be(com)ing a leader: A Case Study of Co-Constructing Professional Identities at Work	p. 40
Chairing International Business Meetings: Investigating Humour and Leadership Style in the Workplace	p. 61
'OK one last thing for today then': Constructing Identities in Corporate Meeting Talk	p. 85
Rhetoric, Expertise and Ideology in Identity Construction
'Hard-working, team-oriented individuals': Constructing Professional Identities in Corporate Mission Statements	p. 103
"Yes then I will tell you maybe a little bit about the procedure" - Constructing Professional identity where there is not yet a Profession: The Case of Executive Coaching	p. 127
Professional Identities in Institutional Contexts
Teachers, Students and Ways of Telling in Classroom Sites: A Case of Out-of-(Work) Place Identities	p. 151
Identity-Work in Appellate Oral Argument: Ideological Identities within a Professional One	p. 175
Engaging Identities: Personal Disclosure and Professional Responsibility	p. 200
"We are not there. In fact now we will go to the garden to take the rain": Researcher Identity and the Observer's Paradox	p. 223
Index	p. 246
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