An Interpersonal Pragmatic Study of Professional Identity Construction in Chinese Televised Debating Discourse

This book explores debaters' professional identity construction through implicit negation in televised debates from an interpersonal pragmatic perspective. It reveals the linguistic strategies used to indirectly negate the identity of others, and highlights three pairs of professional identity constructed through implicit negation: (1) expert vs. non-expert identity, (2) outsider vs. insider identity, (3) authentic vs. false identity. Furthermore, it proposes the Inter-relationality Principle, self-through-other identity and other-through-self identity, which contribute to Bucholtz and Hall's theory of identity construction. Lastly, the book discusses the relations between professional identity construction through implicit negation and im/politeness, and builds a model of professional identity construction through implicit negation based on interpersonal pragmatics.

By focusing on the interpersonal pragmatics of professional identity construction, the book advances the interpersonal pragmatic study of identity construction, im/politeness and implicit negation. As such, it is a valuable resource for a broad readership, including graduate students, and scholars who are interested in professional identity construction, implicit negation and im/politeness research.

Provides a unique pragmatic study of self-professional identity construction Presents the major linguistic strategies for indirectly negating the identity of others Identifies three pairs of self-professional identity construction via negating other-identity

Autorentext

Li Chengtuan is a professor of linguistics at the Faculty of English Language and Culture, and a researcher at the Center of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, P. R. China. His recent research covers pragmatics and discourse analysis, especially identity construction, im/politeness, moral norm and cross-cultural communication. He has published papers in the Journal of Pragmatics, Text & Talk, Intercultural Pragmatics, and Pragmatics & Society, as well as book chapters with Routledge.

Klappentext

This book explores debaters professional identity construction through implicit negation in televised debates from an interpersonal pragmatic perspective. It reveals the linguistic strategies used to indirectly negate the identity of others, and highlights three pairs of professional identity constructed through implicit negation: (1) expert vs. non-expert identity, (2) outsider vs. insider identity, (3) authentic vs. false identity. Furthermore, it proposes the Inter-relationality Principle, self-through-other identity and other-through-self identity, which contribute to Bucholtz and Hall s theory of identity construction. Lastly, the book discusses the relations between professional identity construction through implicit negation and im/politeness, and builds a model of professional identity construction through implicit negation based on interpersonal pragmatics. By focusing on the interpersonal pragmatics of professional identity construction, the book advances the interpersonal pragmatic study of identity construction, im/politeness and implicit negation. As such, it is a valuable resource for a broad readership, including graduate students, and scholars who are interested in professional identity construction, implicit negation and im/politeness research.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Methodology of the Study.- 3. Literature Review.- 4. The Conceptual Framework.- 5. Implicit Negation of Other-Identity in Interaction.- 6. Professional Identity Construction via Implicit Negation.- 7. Professional identity construction via implicit negation and im/politeness.- 8. Conclusion.