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Any Questions? : Identity Construction in Academic Conference Discussions.
Academics go to conferences for two main reasons: first, to discuss their research; second, and just as importantly, to negotiate their own standing in the scientific community. This book shows how academics in the humanities use conference discussions as a forum to co-construct both their own and e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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| Colección: | Trends in Applied Linguistics TAL.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Researching talk-in-interaction; 2.1 Looking through the participants'eyes; 2.2 Doing CA; 2.3 Investigating institutional talk; Chapter 3. The dynamic discursive nature of identity; 3.1 Identity as a social construct; 3.1.1 Symbolic interactionism; 3.1.2 Impression management theory; 3.2 Identity as a members'category; 3.2.1 Indexicality and members'construction of reality; 3.2.2 Membership categorization; 3.2.3 Doing being X; 3.3 Identity, self, and, face; 3.3.1 Goffman's notions of face and facework; 3.3.2 Face in Watts' social theory of politeness.
- 3.3.3 Integrating the concept of face in a CA approach3.4 Identity construction as a means to an end; 3.4.1 Social positioning; 3.4.2 Stylization of self and other; Chapter 4. Ethnographic background; 4.1 Structure of conferences; 4.2 Types of contributions in conference discussions; 4.3 Discursive roles in discussions; 4.3.1 What questioners do; 4.3.2 What answerers do; 4.3.3 What chairpersons do; 4.4 Asking questions; 4.4.1 What is a question?; 4.4.2 Yes/No interrogatives; 4.4.3 Constructing questions to achieve agreement; 4.4.4 Contrasting academic question-answer sessions with interviews.
- 4.5 Self-presentation
- a key feature of conference participation4.5.1 Members' reasons for organising and participating in conferences; 4.5.2 Self-presenting in the community; Chapter 5. The data; 5.1 Data collection; 5.2 Corpus structure; 5.3 Transcription conventions; Chapter 6. The mechanics of discussions at academic conferences; 6.1 TCU completion and assessment; 6.2 Speaker selection; 6.3 Sequential organisation; 6.3.1 Side-sequences; 6.3.2 Pre-sequences; 6.4 Formulations; 6.5 Preference; Chapter 7. Results of the data analyses; 7.1 Doing being expert.
- 7.1.1 Having the overview: doing formulations7.1.1.1 Doing formulations to prepare the ground; 7.1.1.2 Responding to formulations by referring to data; 7.1.1.3 An ambivalent face strategy: si j'ai bien compris; 7.1.1.4 Achieving co-agreement in formulations; 7.1.1.5 SUMMARY of 7.1.1. (Doing formulations); 7.1.2 Displaying alternative access to an idea; 7.1.2.1 moi je vois juxtaposing own research and presenter's ideas; 7.1.2.2 have you done X?; 7.1.2.3 is it not X?; 7.1.2.4 Putting an additional interpretation up for inspection.
- 7.1.2.5 SUMMARY of 7.1.2. (Displaying alternative access to an idea)7.1.3 Granting the presenter a claim of expertise: requesting information; 7.1.3.1 I'm thinking of other types of data: requesting confirmation of informed guesses; 7.1.3.2 c'est juste une toute petite question: pure information questions; 7.1.3.3 have you seen this in language X?; 7.1.3.4 parce que c'est important: information questions with an agenda; 7.1.3.5 SUMMARY of 7.1.3 (Granting expert status to the presenter); 7.1.4 SUMMARY of 7.1 (Doing being expert); 7.2 Doing being a (good) researcher.