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Call for papers
Colloquium on Workplace Discourse
Constructing corporate identities:
The aim of this colloquium is to discuss cutting edge research on corporate identity construction. We take the stance that identities are dynamic in nature, co-constructed and negotiated in discursive practices. We look at how interactants do identity work and how identity is indexed (often in subtle ways) in workplace discourse. As argued by De Fina (2007: 372), ‘individuals and groups build and project images of themselves that are not independent of and do not pre-exist the social practices in which they are displayed and negotiated’. We focus on the dynamic process of creating meanings in workplace interactions and in particular on the performance of identities in the said context. We aim at including work on personal and group identities
We welcome papers which present empirical work and discuss the situational context in which meanings are produced.
Organisers:
Dr Jo Angouri (U West of England, Bristol) & Dr Meredith Marra (Victoria University, NZ)
Core Contributors:
Dr Jo Angouri (U West of England, Bristol)
Dr Alex Georgakopoulou (King's College London)
Dr Almut Koester (U of Birmingham)
Dr Meredith Marra (Victoria University, NZ)
Ms Marlene Miglbauer (U of Applied Sciences, Austria)
Dr Louise Mullany (U of Nottingham)
Discussant:
Dr Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini (U of Nottingham Trent)
