Discourse and Identity in the Professions : Legal, Corporate and Institutional Citizenship.
Title:
Discourse and Identity in the Professions : Legal, Corporate and Institutional Citizenship.
Author:
Bhatia, Vijay K.
ISBN:
9783035103212
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (366 pages)
Series:
Linguistic Insights ; v.149
Linguistic Insights
Contents:
Contents -- Discourse and Identity in the Professions. Corporate, Legal and Institutional Citizenships 9 -- I. Corporate Citizenships -- Contested Identities in Corporate Disclosure Documents 27 -- Clean Corporate Citizenship Identity 45 -- Re-branding Corporate Citizenship: a Rite of Passage? 59 -- Corporate Social Responsibility as a Key to the Representation of Corporate Identity. The Case of Novartis 79 -- Corporate Identity in the Blogosphere: The Case of Executive Weblogs 103 -- You are What you Ride. The Emergence and Evolution of Social Identity through Motorcycle Brand Names 127 -- II. Legal Citizenships -- The Legal Identities of Sport Arbitrators and Judges in International Pronouncements: A Case for Genre Variation? 147 -- Generic Identity in the Advisory Opinions of Sport Arbitration Case Law 171 -- Professional Identities in Italian Arbitral Awards: the Spread of Lawyers' Language 189 -- Arbitration in Italy. Litigation Procedures in Arbitral Practice 213 -- Legal Expertise as a Cultural Identity Trait 239 -- III. Identities in Institutional and Socio-political Domains -- Discourse and Identity in Migration Legislation 267 -- Portrait of a Press Secretary: a CADS Investigation into the Professional Identity of the White House Top Media Strategist 281 -- Denying Identity to the Unified Europe. A Neo-Conservative View from the United States 305 -- Levelling: a Diachronic Survey of Metaphor in Socio-political Discourse 325 -- Notes on Contributors 345.
Abstract:
Professional identities are not only constructed through discourse, but can also be studied and analysed through discourse and communication behaviour, which is probably the most powerful resource available for the understanding of their nature and function. The present volume investigates the ways in which the discourses produced in a variety of professional contexts, especially in business, legal and institutional spheres of action, shape and manifest professional identities. The focus of the studies in this collection is on whether, and to what extent, the in-group identity of a given professional community and the norms elaborated by it affect the communicative behaviour of the individual participant or whether, and to what extent, the professional communication is also affected by the participant's specific objectives in the performance of that professional practice. Most of the studies reported here employ discourse and genre analytical and corpus linguistics tools to highlight the ways and means by which discourses contribute to the analysis of typical identity traits of various professional communities to provide some account of the way members of these professional communities strategically manipulate linguistic resources to achieve their professional objectives.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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