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Any Questions?: Identity Construction in Academic Conference Discussions

Any Questions?: Identity Construction in Academic Conference Discussions

Konzett, Carmen

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [Tal], Book 14

General ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 1614510229
ISBN13: 9781614510222
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jun 14 2012
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This book explores how academics at conferences co-construct their own and each other's professional identities. It is based on the detailed sequential analysis of audio recordings of conference discussions in the field of the humanities, the working languages being French and English.

The analyses show that the delegates who actively participate in these interactions, whether as presenters, chairpersons or as members of the audience, carry out a considerable amount of identity work, attributing self and other to various categories of professional identity. The discussion participants co-construct themselves and each other discursively as academics, professionals, experts, junior or senior members of the scientific community; they also orient to this identity work as an important task to be achieved at conferences.

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