Identity in Academic Discourse

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Flowerdew ◽  
Simon Ho Wang
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Disciplinary Identity ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Academic Genres ◽  
Future Work

ABSTRACTThis review article is concerned with the construction of identity in academic discourse. It examines recent journal articles and monographs in applied linguistics and considers various perspectives on the issue. After a brief introduction and review of the theoretical background relating to identity, followed by a characterization of academic discourse and how it relates to identity theory, the article explores the following topics: linguistic resources for audience engagement; voice and academic identity; disciplinary identity; identity in peripheral academic genres; academic identity development over time; academic identity and English as a lingua franca; power, ideology, and critical language awareness in academic identity construction; language reuse, intertextuality, and academic identity; pedagogically oriented studies and academic identity construction; and methodological diversity and innovation in the study of academic identity. The article concludes with suggestions for future work in the field of academic identity research.

scholarly journals FORMAL SCHOOLING AND THE PROCESS OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION: EXPERIENCES OF MALAYSIAN YOUTHS IN ‘BAD’ SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 78-89
Author(s):  
Dianna Suzieanna Mohamad Shah ◽  
Airil Haimi Mohd Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Human Lifespan ◽  
Teenagers And Young Adults ◽  
Self Discovery

In human lifespan development, identity construction is central within social and personal experiences, even more so for teenagers and young adults (youths) who are looking for their sense of self and own identity. The construction of identity involves the growth of a whole person and the development of a stable sense of self. At the same time, the process of identity construction causes some youths to become self-conscious about how others perceive them; this usually results in repeated self-discovery and identity experiment cycles. Their identities are thus constructed and reconstructed as they try out different role types in different settings, such as in schools. The focus of this research paper is to examine the experience of formal schooling and how it relates to the identity process of Malaysian youths. Employing qualitative face-to-face interviews, data were collected from six research participants from a private university in Selangor, Malaysia who were purposively selected for this empirical research. Three criteria for participant selection were used: That they have been in rural schools for most of their lives, the schools adopt a very didactic focus, and the schools have a limited number of highly trained and motivated teachers; in other words, they have experienced being in ‘bad’ schools. The research participants were selected from two different academic programs: Three undergraduate students from Bachelor in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) and another three from the Bachelor in Law program. Two research questions were posed. First, where does the experience of formal schooling figure in the identity construction of these youths? And second, what roles do the formal experience of schooling play in the lifespan identity development of these youths? Although not generalisable to all youths in Malaysia, the experiences of the participants contribute to advancing our knowledge of identity construction through the process of formal schooling.

scholarly journals Investigating Teacher Identity Construction through the Study of Narratives and their Identity Portraits in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 312-318
Author(s):  
Shagufta Moghal ◽  
Asma Shahid Kazi ◽  
Aishah Siddiquah
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Workload Management ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Current Article ◽  
History Approach

The current article investigates teacher identity construction at the tertiary level educational institutions of Pakistan. Identity is the sense or perception about oneself and the position or role one has in a given context and environment; teachers construct their identities in the specific work and Institutional environments they face every day. This research adopted the Life History approach to narrative inquiry, where five participants were selected through purposive sampling. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview protocol that focused on the narratives; the narratives were inductively analyzed vertically and horizontally to reconstruct identity portraits for each participant. The portraits also presented commonalities and convergent issues and themes in identity development, such as the effect of positive or negative educational experiences; the role of the organizational culture, leadership and colleagues in shaping identity; the difficulties, negotiations and challenges experienced in the construction of identity; time and workload management issues.

Brand names and unconventional spelling

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Brand Names ◽  
Brand Identity ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Marketing Materials

This article explores the creative use of unconventional spelling in brand names. Using insights from the indexical approach to the linguistic construction of identity, it demonstrates how unconventional spelling produces a myriad of effects and meanings, which in turn help construct brand identities. First, it identifies the various strategies of unconventional spelling, investigates their potential to convey distinctiveness, and examines other effects and meanings that they produce. It then presents a case study to further illustrate how unconventional spelling works with other marketing materials to create a unique brand identity. Unconventional spelling, because of its polarizing nature, can be a risky resource for constructing brand identities. Not only does this study contribute to an under-researched area in the sociolinguistics of orthography, but it also broadens the range of identities and linguistic resources examined in the sociolinguistic investigation of identity construction.

Asymptotic Behavior in Slumping From a Cylindrical Tank

1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Bai ◽  
W. Johnson ◽  
R. G. M. Low ◽  
S. K. Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Transition Period ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Hazardous Substance ◽  
Substance Flows ◽  
Linear Relationships ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
And Control ◽  
Future Work

When an oil tank collapses or ruptures any contained hazardous substance flows outwards and can damage nearby plant or people as well as lead to pollution of the local environment. In recent years, this and similar subjects have given rise to a new kind of engineering—spill prevention and control. However, theoretical background, backed by experiment, is lacking to work out reliable regulations. An intermediate-asymptotic analysis for late-stage spreading is carried out in this paper. This analysis reveals several characteristic features of the spill wave such as transition period and linear relationships between spreading area and time, and wave front velocity and the inverse of zone radius. Most of the latter results have been verified by model experiment. This paper also discusses the discrepancies between observations and the theory suggested in a recent UK Health and Safety Executive report. Finally, the present paper puts forward proper modeling rules for future work.

Travelling inner landscapes: a longitudinal study on transcultural identity development

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude-Hélène Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate insights into the identity construction and development of a selected single male individual in Cape Town, South Africa. It aims at increasing the in-depth understanding of the complexities of identity construction in a transcultural setting and provides emic perspectives on a micro-individual level over a period of ten years. Design/methodology/approach – This research study is based on the post-modernist premise by considering phenomenological and interpretative paradigms most relevant. It is a longitudinal study, conducted with a single individual over a period of ten years by using various research methods as well as triangulation of methods, theories and data. Data were analysed through content analysis. Findings – This research provides in-depth information on the struggle of a single person to construct and re-construct his identity and find answers to the question “Who am I?” in the multifaceted and hypercomplex transcultural environment of Cape Town. It shows the attempts to developing a coherent multiple identity over a period of ten years, reconstructing the past, creating the present and envisioning the future. Practical implications – This research has practical implications for practitioners working with identity (development) in transcultural settings. It provides important in-depth information on “nomadic identities” for coaching, counselling or therapies in transcultural settings. Originality/value – This paper provides new and original insights into long-term identity development of an individual in a transcultural urban space.

Autonomy and Emancipation: The Challenge of Identity Construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-06
Author(s):  
Mariana Malvezzi ◽  
Tassara Tassara
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Cellular Basis ◽  
Humanities Education ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Current Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
Easy Answer ◽  
Present World

Identity acts as a nucleus to the subject's references, their memories, their choices of life, to the construction of their history. Identity is, therefore, a minimal cellular basis from which life develops in its poetics of creation. The construction of identity thus has potential for the development of a critique, the establishment of a grammar of rules and conditions, for standing before the world. The path towards emancipation implies in exercising an external look at one's identity, the inherent existing narrative, to discover the paradigm of the minimum base from which one's life develops. With the increasing complexity of the postcolonial world, no straight or easy answer is at hand. The effort should draw towards the construction of conceptual tools that can enable reflection and critique. The humanities education, is one possible tool towards autonomy and emancipation once it encourages knowledge, construction and appraisal. The reflections brought to light through this work intends to fertilize the discussions about identity construction in the Brazilian present day context, characterized by a discourse that foster ruptures and decreases the possibilities of one’s identity. For this purpose, the current challenge of emancipation, will be developed through 6 analytical semantic dimensions which express the diversity and complexity of the actual scenario: Understanding identity, (CIAMPA, 1987; RICOEUR, 1990), as the synthetic goal of existence has the dynamism to give new possibilities to the frontier-men (HARTOG, 2004; LEVINÁS, 1972), whose challenge is the gain of consciousness of one’s own movement in the world. Marked by perversity (HONNETH, 2003) the present world enforces political, social, motivational, and subjective domination (CASTORIADIS, 1987). This scenario compels the frontier-men towards an emptied signifier alienating his possibilities of recognition. The search for emancipation (HABERMAS, 1983) asks for a critical look at the current formation of people's strategic thinking.

scholarly journals La identidad y el empoderamiento de las mujeres gambianas narrados a través de discursos fotográficos /

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ileana Landeros Casillas
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Collective Empowerment

El artículo pretende abordar dos temas principalmente: la construcción de la identidad de las mujeres gambianas actuales y el empoderamiento que han adquirido como parte del proceso de transformación al que se les ha forzado a introducirse. Ambos temas se vinculan con la narración fotográfica como una manera novedosa de hacer uso de los estudios artísticos a la luz de la construcción identitaria y el empoderamiento colectivo como base de proyectos económicos, políticos y socioculturales nacidosIdentity and empowerment of gambian women narrated through photographic speeches.The article intends to explore two topics in particular: the identity construction of current Gambian women and the empowerment that they have acquired as part of the transformation process that has forced them to enter by themselves. Both topics are linked with the photographic narration as a novel way of using art studies by the construction of identity and collective empowerment as the basis of economic, political and cultural projects born from the needs of these women. The speech is analyzed in this paper is created from the horizontality of the methodology Between Voices, considering subaltern studies, gender, feminist discourses and art education

scholarly journals Sprechen Wir Deutsch? The construction of identity in Austria and South Tyrol

COMPASS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Hilden
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
The South ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Lexical Development ◽  
South Tyrol ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Pronoun Use ◽  
The Creation

This paper examines some of the linguistic tools, techniques, means, and methods by which the populations of Austria and South Tyrol construct identity. In order to better situate these two communities, this paper begins with an overview of the conditions which led to the creation of each state. It then explains some of the ways in which language can be used as a tool of identity construction. Positioning theory details ways both these groups create categories of separationand belonging. Citing the use of Austrian German, dialect in literature, differing pronunciation, and lexical development, this paper examines how the population of Austria constructs a linguistic identity distancing itself from Germany. This paper also examines how, using similar linguistic tools such as pronoun use and naming techniques, the population of South Tyrol constructs its identity. In contrast to Austria, the South Tyroleans align themselves with Germany, creating closer ties with Germanic neighbours while distancing themselves from Italy. Each population positions itself in relation to Germany, either with or against, using linguistic tools to create a group identity.

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