Any questions? : identity construction in academic conference discussions / by Carmen Konzett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konzett, Carmen.

Series:

Trends in applied linguistics ; 14.

Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in the humanities.

Congresses and conventions.

Forums (Discussion and debate).

College teachers.

Identity (Psychology).

Interpersonal communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. This study provides detailed insights into the fine-grained mechanics of spoken academic discourse. From the perspective of applied research it serves the double purpose of raising experienced researchers' awareness of their own routines and introducing novices to the discourse practices of academia.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Researching talk-in-interaction

Chapter 3. The dynamic discursive nature of identity

Chapter 4. Ethnographic background

Chapter 5. The data

Chapter 6. The mechanics of discussions at academic conferences

Chapter 7. Results of the data analyses

7.1 Doing being expert

7.2 Doing being a (good) researcher

7.3 Doing being entertaining

7.4 Performing collective multiple professional identities

Notes

Chapter 8. Conclusion

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-411) and index.

ISBN:

9786613941718

9781283629263

1283629267

9781614510246

1614510245

OCLC:

811732142