TY - BOOK AU - Mieroop,Dorien Van De AU - Schnurr,Stephanie TI - Identity struggles: evidence from workplaces around the world T2 - Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture (DAPSAC), SN - 9789027265883 AV - P302.84 U1 - 305.5/620141 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company KW - Discourse analysis KW - Social aspects KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Workplace literacy KW - Professional employees KW - Language KW - Social interaction KW - Communication in organizations KW - Identité (Psychologie) KW - Alphabétisation en milieu de travail KW - Interaction sociale KW - Communication dans les organisations KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - bisacsh KW - Minority Studies KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note; ch. 1; Introduction: A kaleidoscopic view of identity struggles at work; Dorien Van De Mieroop --; pt. I; Struggling to construct professional competence --; ch. 2; Coping with uncertainty: Gender and leadership identities in UK corporate life; Judith Baxter --; ch. 3; Constructing a "competent" meeting chair: A study of the discourse of meeting chairing in a Hong Kong workplace; Angela Chan --; ch. 4; Juggling T's and "we"s with "he"s and "she"s: Negotiating novice professional identities in stories of teamwork told in New Zealand job interviews; Sophie Reissner-Roubicek --; ch. 5; Epistemic "Struggles": When nurses' expert identity is challenged by "knowledgeable" clients; Stephanie Schnurr --; ch. 6; Who's the expert? Negotiating competence and authority in guided tours; Lorenza Mondada --; pt. II; Struggling to (de-)construct in-group membership --; ch. 7; You're a proper tradesman mate: Identity struggles and workplace transitions in New Zealand; Meredith Marra --; ch. 8; Indian women at work: Struggling between visibility and invisibility; Dorien Van De Mieroop --; ch. 9; dynamics of identity struggle in interdisciplinary meetings in higher education; Keith Richards --; ch. 10; Laughables as a resource for foregrounding shared knowledge and shared identities in intercultural interactions in Scandinavia; Louise Tranekjaer --; ch. 11; Workplace conflicts as (re)source for analysing identity struggles in stories told in interviews; Marlene Miglbauer --; ch. 12; Identities on a learning curve: Female migrant narratives and the construction of identities of (non)participation in Communities of Practice; Dorien Van De Mieroop --; pt. III; Struggling to combine (sometimes competing) expectations --; ch. 13; Managing patients' expectations in telephone complaints in Scotland; May McCreaddie --; ch. 14; Identity work in nurse-client interactions in selected community hospitals in Kenya; Benson Oduor Ojwang --; ch. 15; Èven if there were procedures, we will be acting at our own discretion...': General practitioners' struggle about identity; Agnieszka Sowinska --; ch. 16; Kind of work: Narratives from Canadian indigenous women; Jens Brockmeier --; ch. 17; Adapting self for private and public audiences: The enactment of leadership identity by New Zealand rugby coaches in huddles and interviews; Nick Wilson --; ch. 18; "I speak French=eh": Multilingualism and professional identity struggles in Luxembourg; Anne Franziskus --; pt. IV; Struggling to define identity boundaries --; ch. 19; discursive accomplishment of identity during veterinary medical consultations in the UK; Robin Burrow --; ch. 20; Embracing a new professional identity: The case of social work in Botswana; Sue Wharton --; ch. 21; Identity and space: Discourse perspectives; Gerlinde Mautner --; ch. 22; Household workers' use of directives to negotiate their professional identity in Lima, Peru; Susana de los Hews --; ch. 23; Ẁe're only here to help': Identity struggles in foreign domestic helper narratives; Hans J. Ladegaard --; ch. 24; Epilogue: Identity struggles as a reflection of knowledge, competing norms, and attempts for social change; Stephanie Schnurr UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1503992 ER -