Constructing Identities at Work

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Investigating the Negotiation of Identity: A View from the Field of Workplace Discourse....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Leadership Style in Managers’ Feedback in Meetings....Pages 17-39
Be(com)ing a Leader: A Case Study of Co-Constructing Professional Identities at Work....Pages 40-60
Chairing International Business Meetings: Investigating Humour and Leadership Style in the Workplace....Pages 61-84
‘OK one last thing for today then’: Constructing Identities in Corporate Meeting Talk....Pages 85-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
‘Hard-working, team-oriented individuals’: Constructing Professional Identities in Corporate Mission Statements....Pages 103-126
“Yes then I will tell you maybe a little bit about the procedure” — Constructing Professional Identity where there is not yet a Profession: The Case of Executive Coaching....Pages 127-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Teachers, Students and Ways of Telling in Classroom Sites: A Case of Out-of-(Work) Place Identities....Pages 151-174
Identity-Work in Appellate Oral Argument: Ideological Identities within a Professional One....Pages 175-199
Engaging Identities: Personal Disclosure and Professional Responsibility....Pages 200-222
“We are not there. In fact now we will go to the garden to take the rain”: Researcher Identity and the Observer’s Paradox....Pages 223-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-248