Discourse, Identities and Roles in Specialized Communication

Giuliana Elena Garzone editor James Archibald editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Published:6th Aug '10

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The studies presented in this volume focus on two distinct but related areas of specialized communication professional and academic settings, resting on an anti-essentialist notion of identity as a phenomenon that emerges from the dialectic between individual and society.
The authors start from a detailed analysis of discourse practices as evidenced in texts, their production and the professional performance patterns which underlie such practices, and explore the way the actors, roles and identities are constructed in language and discourse. In particular, by highlighting discursive attitudes and aptitudes, they underscore the need to understand discourse in light of norms of professional responsibility, showing that not only do professionals and academics use discourse to create self-identity, but they also use identity constructed through discourse to influence society.

«‘Discourse, Identities and Roles in Specialized Communication’ takes a deep and impressive look at identity construction, reconstruction and interpretation in professional and academic discourses. Its scholastic dragnet scopes over not only specialized communication, as its title suggests, but also all areas of applied linguistics and sociologically grounded terrains of language studies. Scholars from these disciplines are, therefore, invited to utilize the rich findings in the book and participate in the engaging debates that have emerged from them.» (Akin Odebunmi, Discourse Studies 14, 2012/2)

ISBN: 9783034304948

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Weight: 620g

419 pages

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