Being (im)polite in New Zealand workplaces: Māori and Pākehā leaders

Schnurr, Stephanie; Marra, Meredith; Holmes, Janet

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.016

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“…Research into identity in institutional contexts has, naturally, also reflected this growing interest in ethnicity (e.g. Holmes et al 2008;Gumperz 1982 [chapter 8];Roberts 2011;and Schnurr et al 2007).…”

Section: Such a Context 'Sets Limits Around What […] The Institutionamentioning

confidence: 99%

The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction

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Clifton²

2022

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Section: Such a Context 'Sets Limits Around What […] The Institutionamentioning

confidence: 99%

The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction

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Clifton²

2022

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“…Membership is determined by how successfully an individual has acquired the shared repertoire, or by his understanding of the processes and goals of the CofP (Holmes and Meyerhoff 1999: 176). Schnurr et al (2007) make use of the concept of a CofP to investigate cultural diversity within the workplace, specifically focusing on politeness and leadership within ethnicized communities, where "ethnicized" refers to multicultural communities made up of members of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds (in this study, specifically Maori and Pākehā leaders in New Zealand workplaces). The purpose of their research is not to emphasize intercultural differences, but rather to investigate how politeness and leadership are accomplished within specific workplaces and communities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Tensions, ambivalence, and contradiction: a small story analysis of discursive identity construction in the South African workplace

Oostendorp

Jones

2014

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Recently there has been an increased focus on narratives produced within or about the workplace. A number of different analytical approaches to narrative exist and there has been quite a vigorous debate between researchers interested in life stories (or so-called big stories) and those researchers proposing an increased focus on small stories. This paper will use small story analysis (SSA) to examine workplace identity in discourses on organizational processes in one workplace in South Africa. The data for this study were collected by conducting interviews and focus group discussions with 19 members of a large South African retail company. We find that participants often introduce small stories which offer discourses that contradict or contest "official" company discourses (or the so-called sanctioned grand narrative stories). We argue that small stories can be a valuable resource to investigate organizational discourses, as participants often introduce questions of identity which do not necessarily fit the dominant organizational discourses through small stories. Small story analysis seems to be an ideal tool to investigate contradictions and inconsistencies which occur in all discourses but are typical of contexts of diversity and transformation such as the South African workplace.

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“…Progressively, more scholars (Lambert-Graham 2007;Schnurr et al 2007;Spencer-Oatey 2007;Holmes et al 2008;Locher 2008;Locher and Langlotz 2008;Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2009Angouri and Tseliga 2010;Haugh 2010;Planchenault 2010;Upadhyay 2010) have striven to include identity in models of im/politeness. Furthermore, the discursive turn, with its focus on hearers' assessments of im/politeness, has consistently unveiled that the identity that hearers co-construct for speakers has a fundamental impact on whether their discourse is assessed as im/polite (e.g., Haugh 2010).…”

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Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol

Blitvich

Bou‐Franch

Lorenzo-Dus

2013

Journal of Politeness Research

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Premised on the belief that both identity construction and im/politeness assessments relate to norms associated with genre practices, the aim of this paper is to examine the interconnections between identity co-construction and impoliteness in a media genre: the talent show. This aim is innovative in so far as im/politeness has traditionally been related to the notion of face, rather than identity. Our study draws upon a corpus of 160 interactional sequences from the UK and US versions of the talent show Idol. All sequences in the data include music expert Simon Cowell, who has been singled out as playing the role of the malicious judge by both journalists and scholars. However, to our knowledge, no previous study has undertaken a micro-analysis of the linguistic resources deployed by Simon Cowell to construct his expert identity or has examined the role that impoliteness may play therein. This is what we set out to do in this paper. To that end, our analytic framework combines socio-constructivist approaches to identity construction (Anton and Peterson 2003;Joseph 2004;Bucholtz and Hall 2005; De Fina et al. 2006) with a recently revised, discursive approach to im/politeness, i.e., the genre approach (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2010, this issue).

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Being (im)polite in New Zealand workplaces: Māori and Pākehā leaders

Cited by 94 publications

References 20 publications

The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction

The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity introduction

Tensions, ambivalence, and contradiction: a small story analysis of discursive identity construction in the South African workplace

Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol

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