Self-professional identity construction through other-identity deconstruction in Chinese televised debating discourse

Li, Chengtuan; Ran, Yongping

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2016.01.001

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“…In this sense, professional identity is taken as one's professional image, consisting of such attributes as professional role, professional expertise and professional ethics (cf. Li and Ran, 2016).…”

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A study of emotion management and identity construction in Chinese medical treatment discussions

2022

Discourse Studies

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Based on a medical corpus, this study attempts to capture how doctors manage their emotions and construct their professional identity in treatment discussions. Using the Emotion Model and the Model of Epistemics and Deontics Gradient, I find that (1) when their professional expertise is questioned or doubted, doctors highlight their epistemic rights and displays negative emotions; (2) when their professional role is negated, doctors give the deontic rights to their patients and discharge negative emotions; and (3) when their professional ethics is challenged, doctors project their professional morality, reinforce their deontic rights and give vent to negative emotions. This study, by integrating the Confucian System of Moral Virtues (see) with Emotion Model, establishes a theoretical framework for examining the association between emotion management and identity construction in Chinese medical discourse.

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A study of emotion management and identity construction in Chinese medical treatment discussions

2022

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“…Adopting the social-constructionist view of Bucholtz and Hall (2005), and using Spencer-Oatey's (2007) definition of identity, they take professional identity to mean 'one's professional self-image, consisting of such attributes as professional role, professional competence and professional ethics' (Li and Ran 2016: 48). Li and Ran (2016) demonstrate that professional identity will always be cognitive and social in nature regardless of whether it is construed individually, relationally or collectively. This means that people will form cognitive representations of their professional identity and negotiate and construct it in social interaction.…”

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“…When it comes to the adjective 'professional', Boswood (1999) and Sullivan (2000) suggest that it carries particular expectations, such as high standards of competence, including superior knowledge and skills, and high standards of moral responsibility. In a recent study, Li and Ran (2016) develop this understanding of 'professional' to define professional identity. Adopting the social-constructionist view of Bucholtz and Hall (2005), and using Spencer-Oatey's (2007) definition of identity, they take professional identity to mean 'one's professional self-image, consisting of such attributes as professional role, professional competence and professional ethics' (Li and Ran 2016: 48).…”

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‘I consider myself to be a service provider’: Discursive identity construction of the forensic linguistic expert

Clarke

Kredens

2018

IJSLL

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This article reports on a research project investigating the professional identity of linguists as experts in legal and forensic settings. It reveals how they construct that identity discursively and intersubjectively. The analysis adopts a social constructionist perspective whereby the ways in which the experts talk and make sense of their professional experience are seen as identity building. Using interview data and the combined methodologies of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) and thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke 2006), we identify a number of discursive resources the experts draw on. These include knowledge and expertise, professional and social duty, and aspects of their professional practice. At the same time, the experts construe their professional experience by reference to what they do not, and should not, do. We suggest that 'forensic linguist' is a shared identity with its own set of competencies, practices and obligations, although the profession is potentially still in development and/or is auxiliary to law enforcement.

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“…Finally, this new theoretical tool gives rise to a number of interesting areas for further research, for example the comparison and contrast of (1) the synchronic identity constructed by interactants in everyday life, public spheres such as TV talk shows, and virtual worlds, because public and Internet pragmatic research display different discourse styles and features (Li & Ran, 2016;Kádár & Fukushima, 2018) and (2) the identity constructed by interlanguage and native language users, or by bilingual language users in their different languages (Ren, 2019;Reményi, 2017), etc. As the author mentions in Chapter 9, some inappropriate applications of pragmatic identity could result from a lack of knowledge of cultural variations (Spencer-Oatey, 2007), and therefore default pragmatic identities might differ from one culture to another.…”

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Pragmatic Identity: How to Do Things with Words of Identity Xinren Chen (2018)

Ning

2020

EAP

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The concept of identity frequently appears in the research literature of such disciplines as linguistics, communication, sociology, social psychology, and other interdisciplinary areas. Drawing upon a wide variety of literature and authentic data, Chen presents a systematic theorisation of pragmatic identity. This book focuses on the identity presented in naturally occurring verbal communication and how this identity is closely connected with the construction and interpretation of the discourse, be it the identities that are adopted by the interactants or the identity of a third party which is alluded to by the interactants in the discourse (Chen 2018: 2). This timely pragmatic theorisation of identity provides an important analytical tool for the examination of verbal communication and offers new opportunities in existing pragmatic studies. The theorisation in this book has

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Self-professional identity construction through other-identity deconstruction in Chinese televised debating discourse

Cited by 20 publications

References 22 publications

A study of emotion management and identity construction in Chinese medical treatment discussions

A study of emotion management and identity construction in Chinese medical treatment discussions

‘I consider myself to be a service provider’: Discursive identity construction of the forensic linguistic expert

Pragmatic Identity: How to Do Things with Words of Identity Xinren Chen (2018)

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