Professional identity constructions of Indian women / Priti Sandhu.

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Professional Identity Constructions of Indian Women; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Transcription key ; Introduction; 1.1 Late modernity in the western, industrialized world; 1.2 Late modernity and postcolonial India; 1.3 Discourse; 1.4 Narratives; 1.5 Identity; 1.6 Narratives and identities; 1.7 Gender and gendered identity performances; 1.8 Power and its intersectionality with discourse; 1.9 Discursive empowerments and disempowerments; 1.9.1 Positionings between interactants; 1.9.2 Positionings emanating from the storied world.

1.10 Enactments of discursive empowerments and discursive disempowerments1.10.1 Stylization; 1.10.2 Reported speech; 1.10.2.1 Direct speech; 1.10.2.2 Indirect speech; 1.10.2.3 Quasi direct speech; 1.10.2.4 Choral dialogue; 1.10.2.5 Choral thought; 1.10.3 Mock languages; 1.10.4 Emotion-indexing devices; 1.10.5 Negative self or other-labeling; 1.10.6 Similes and metaphors; 1.10.7 Laughter and laughing tone; 1.10.8 Stress and intonation variations; 1.10.9 Irony and sarcasm; 1.10.10 Lexical and syntactic choices; 1.11 The ensuing chapters; Contextualizing the study; 2.1 English in India.

2.1.1 English in British Colonial India 2.1.2 English in post-Independence India; 2.2 Current linguistic educational policy: The 'Three Language Formula'; 2.3 Schools; 2.4 Ongoing discourses and debates about the position of English; 2.5 Patriarchy in India; 2.6 The current project; 2.6.1 Research sites; 2.6.1.1 Delhi ; 2.6.1.2 Dehradun; 2.6.1.3 Mussoorie; 2.6.1.4 Haridwar; 2.6.1.5 Rishikesh; 2.6.2 The participants; 2.6.3 Data collection; 2.6.4 Data analysis; 2.7 Conclusion ; Job advertisements; 3.1 Ridhima's story: Changing directions; 3.1.1 Positionings between interactants.

3.1.2 Positionings emanating from the storied world3.2 Mrigya's story: Implicating gender; 3.2.1 Positionings between interactants; 3.2.2 Positionings emanating from the storied world; 3.3 Krutika's story: Is the answer another degree, this time in EME?; 3.3.1 Positionings between interactants; 3.3.2 Positionings emanating from the storied world; 3.4 Deepika's story: Restricted domains; 3.4.1 Positionings between interactants; 3.4.2 Positionings emanating from the storied world; 3.5 Conclusion; Job interviews; 4.1 Jeevika's story: The consequences of speaking in Hindi during job€interviews.

4.1.1 Positionings between interactants 4.1.2 Positionings emanating from the storied world; 4.2 Hetal's story: The negative consequences of revealing a Hindi medium background to interviewers; 4.2.1 Positionings between interactants; 4.2.2 Positionings emanating from the storied world; 4.3 Aarushi's story: Small, private companies and sexual harassment; 4.3.1 Positionings between interactants; 4.3.2 Positionings emanating from the storied world; 4.4 Sarika's story: When an EME school certificate trumps an HME BA degree ; 4.4.1 Positionings between interactants.

This book analyzes the narratives of urban, North Indian women for the diverse ways in which they construct the impact of their medium of education - Hindi, English, or a combination of both - on varied aspects of their professional and personal lives. It examines how participants reinforce or interrogate firmly entrenched power hierarchies that have long elevated English in India. Adopting a social constructionist perspective, and treating oral narratives as impacted both by local interactional contingencies and by larger social contexts, this book provides an innovative framework for the analysis of narratives told in qualitative research interviews. Stylization, mock languages, similes and metaphors, reported speech, and varied interactional cues are some of the devices used to examine the intersectionality of power and identity within participants' oral narratives. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of narrative analysis, gender and identity studies, postcolonialism, and professional identity constructions of women.

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