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Taking a corpus linguistic perspective,
Community and Identity in Teacher Professional Talk addresses the central question of how professional communities are constructed through language. This book explores the relatively neglected site of professional discourse, teacher talk outside of the classroom, and examines the possibilities and challenges of operationalising an existing social theory to interpret evidence generated using corpus-based methodologies. Demonstrating how powerful corpus methodologies can be for the study of language in context, this book is essesntial reading for those doing research on professional discourse and corpus linguistics.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Investigating Community and Identity in Language
Chapter 2: Corpus Linguistics and Corpus-based Methodology
Chapter 3: Managing the Meeting and Articulating Practices
Chapter 4: Articulating Identity in Context
Chapter 5: Managing and Maintaining the Community: Investigating Politeness Norms and Norming in the Community
Chapter 6: Managing and Maintaining the Community: The Pragmatics of Humour in the Workplace
Chapter 7: Conclusion - Corpus-based Investigations of Professional Communities
About the author
Elaine Vaughan lectures in TESOL/Linguistics at the University of Limerick, where she is also currently Course Director of the MA TESOL.
Summary
Taking a corpus linguistic perspective, Community and Identity in Teacher Professional Talk addresses the central question of how professional communities are constructed through language. This book explores the relatively neglected site of professional discourse, teacher talk outside of the classroom, and examines the possibilities and challenges of operationalising an existing social theory to interpret evidence generated using corpus-based methodologies. Demonstrating how powerful corpus methodologies can be for the study of language in context, this book is essesntial reading for those doing research on professional discourse and corpus linguistics.
