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Any Questions? Identity Construction in Academic Conference Discussions

:	Carmen Konzett
:	Any Questions? Identity Construction in Academic Conference Discussions
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9781614510246
:	Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 124.30
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

:	424
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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 each other’s professional identities. While at first sight the researchers seem to be simply asking and answering questions, the detailed sequential analyses reveal many subtle underlying strategies adopted to display and negotiate claims of expertise, seniority and competence.

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< >Carmen Konzett, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

	Chapter 1. Introduction	13
	Chapter 2. Researching talk-in-interaction	21
	2.1 Looking through the participants’eyes	21
	2.2 Doing CA	27
	2.3 Investigating institutional talk	29
	Chapter 3. The dynamic discursive nature of identity	32
	3.1 Identity as a social construct	33
	3.1.1 Symbolic interactionism	33
	3.1.2 Impression management theory	37
	3.2 Identity as a members’category	43
	3.2.1 Indexicality and members’construction of reality	43
	3.2.2 Membership categorization	45
	3.2.3 Doing being X	53
	3.3 Identity, self, and, face	57
	3.3.1 Goffman’s notions of face and facework	57
	3.3.2 Face in Watts’ social theory of politeness	59
	3.3.3 Integrating the concept of face in a CA approach	63
	3.4 Identity construction as a means to an end	65
	3.4.1 Social positioning	65
	3.4.2 Stylization of self and other	69
	Chapter 4. Ethnographic background	73
	4.1 Structure of conferences	74
	4.2 Types of contributions in conference discussions	77
	4.3 Discursive roles in discussions	88
	4.3.1 What questioners do	89
	4.3.2 What answerers do	91
	4.3.3 What chairpersons do	94
	4.4 Asking questions	96
	4.4.1 What is a question?	96
	4.4.2 Yes/No interrogatives	99
	4.4.3 Constructing questions to achieve agreement	105
	4.4.4 Contrasting academic question-answer sessions with interviews	108
	4.5 Self-presentation – a key feature of conference participation	109
	4.5.1 Members’ reasons for organising and participating in conferences	109
	4.5.2 Self-presenting in the community	112
	Chapter 5. The data	119
	5.1 Data collection	119
	5.2 Corpus structure	120
	5.3 Transcription conventions	121
	Chapter 6. The mechanics of discussions at academic conferences	127
	6.1 TCU completion and assessment	127
	6.2