Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Researching talk-in-interaction -- 2.1 Looking through the participants'eyes -- 2.2 Doing CA -- 2.3 Investigating institutional talk -- Chapter 3. The dynamic discursive nature of identity -- 3.1 Identity as a social construct -- 3.1.1 Symbolic interactionism -- 3.1.2 Impression management theory -- 3.2 Identity as a members'category -- 3.2.1 Indexicality and members'construction of reality -- 3.2.2 Membership categorization -- 3.2.3 Doing being X -- 3.3 Identity, self, and, face -- 3.3.1 Goffman's notions of face and facework -- 3.3.2 Face in Watts' social theory of politeness -- 3.3.3 Integrating the concept of face in a CA approach -- 3.4 Identity construction as a means to an end -- 3.4.1 Social positioning -- 3.4.2 Stylization of self and other -- Chapter 4. Ethnographic background -- 4.1 Structure of conferences -- 4.2 Types of contributions in conference discussions -- 4.3 Discursive roles in discussions -- 4.3.1 What questioners do -- 4.3.2 What answerers do -- 4.3.3 What chairpersons do -- 4.4 Asking questions -- 4.4.1 What is a question? -- 4.4.2 Yes/No interrogatives -- 4.4.3 Constructing questions to achieve agreement -- 4.4.4 Contrasting academic question-answer sessions with interviews -- 4.5 Self-presentation - a key feature of conference participation -- 4.5.1 Members' reasons for organising and participating in conferences -- 4.5.2 Self-presenting in the community -- Chapter 5. The data -- 5.1 Data collection -- 5.2 Corpus structure -- 5.3 Transcription conventions -- Chapter 6. The mechanics of discussions at academic conferences -- 6.1 TCU completion and assessment -- 6.2 Speaker selection -- 6.3 Sequential organisation -- 6.3.1 Side-sequences -- 6.3.2 Pre-sequences -- 6.4 Formulations -- 6.5 Preference -- Chapter 7. Results of the data analyses.

7.1 Doing being expert -- 7.1.1 Having the overview: doing formulations -- 7.1.1.1 Doing formulations to prepare the ground -- 7.1.1.2 Responding to formulations by referring to data -- 7.1.1.3 An ambivalent face strategy: si j'ai bien compris -- 7.1.1.4 Achieving co-agreement in formulations -- 7.1.1.5 SUMMARY of 7.1.1. (Doing formulations) -- 7.1.2 Displaying alternative access to an idea -- 7.1.2.1 moi je vois juxtaposing own research and presenter's ideas -- 7.1.2.2 have you done X? -- 7.1.2.3 is it not X? -- 7.1.2.4 Putting an additional interpretation up for inspection -- 7.1.2.5 SUMMARY of 7.1.2. (Displaying alternative access to an idea) -- 7.1.3 Granting the presenter a claim of expertise: requesting information -- 7.1.3.1 I'm thinking of other types of data: requesting confirmation of informed guesses -- 7.1.3.2 c'est juste une toute petite question: pure information questions -- 7.1.3.3 have you seen this in language X? -- 7.1.3.4 parce que c'est important: information questions with an agenda -- 7.1.3.5 SUMMARY of 7.1.3 (Granting expert status to the presenter) -- 7.1.4 SUMMARY of 7.1 (Doing being expert) -- 7.2 Doing being a (good) researcher -- 7.2.1 Collaborative labelling -- 7.2.1.1 Displaying collective membership to the scientific community -- 7.2.1.2 Displaying understanding and competence -- 7.2.2 Explicit (and critical) reflection on research practices -- 7.2.2.1 Lecturing on good research practice -- 7.2.2.2 Displaying research practices as personal experience -- 7.2.3 Intertextuality at conferences: semiotic spanning -- 7.2.3.1 Positioning self in the scientific community -- 7.2.3.2 Referring to a third party as a specific academic practice -- 7.2.4 SUMMARY of 7.2 (Doing being a (good) researcher) -- 7.3 Doing being entertaining -- 7.3.1 Punchlines.

7.3.1.1 Punchlines as part of one's own turn -- 7.3.1.2 Punchlines triggered by other -- 7.3.2 Inserting formulations -- 7.3.2.1 Provocative statements to entertain -- 7.3.2.2 Formulations as laughables to connect with other(s) -- 7.3.3 Second laughables -- 7.3.4 Entertaining through narratives -- 7.3.4.1 Everyday-type narratives -- 7.3.4.2 Micro-narratives -- 7.3.4.3 Requested narratives -- 7.3.4.4 SUMMARY of 7.3 (Doing being entertaining) -- 7.4 Performing collective multiple professional identities -- 7.4.1 Displaying self's professional identity as multi-layered -- 7.4.1.1 They - you - I: using pronouns to construct different viewpoints -- 7.4.1.2 Relating personal experiences: narratives and recipient design -- 7.4.1.3 Displaying affiliation with a category through prosodic and lexical markedness -- 7.4.1.4 SUMMARY of 7.4.1 (Displaying self's professional identity as multi-layered) -- 7.4.2 Multiple professional identities presented as dilemmas of the self -- 7.4.2.1 Dilemmatic identities as an argumentative strategy -- 7.4.2.2 Stream-of-consciousness self-disclosure: content reflected by linguistic structure -- 7.4.2.3 SUMMARY of 7.4.2 (Multiple professional identities presented as dilemmas of the self) -- 7.4.3 In-groups and out-groups -- 7.4.3.1 Constructing group identity through joking and laughter -- 7.4.3.2 Competent self vs. incompetent other: precise wording and vague references -- 7.4.3.3 Othering through stylization: stereotyping absent others -- 7.4.3.4 A present other categorised as in contrast to in-group norms -- 7.4.3.5 SUMMARY of 7.4.3 (In-groups and out-groups) -- 7.4.3.6 SUMMARY of 7.4 (Performing multiple complex professional identities) -- Notes -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index.