Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities

308 Pages·2008·33.862 MB·English

by  Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Rick Iedema (eds.)

Identity Trouble
Also by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
NEWS AS SOCIAL PRACTICE
TEXTS AND PRACTICES: READINGS IN CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Edited with Malcolm Coulthard
THE WRITER'S CRAFf, THE CULTURES TECHNOLOGY
Edited with Michael Toolan
Also by Rick /edema
DISCOURSES OF POST-BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATION
THE DISCOURSE OF HOSPITAL COMMUNICATION
Editor
Identity Trouble
Critical Discourse and Contested
Identities
Edited by
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
Centre for English Language Studies
University of Birmingham
Rick Iedema
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
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Contents
Tables and Figures vii
Notes on Editors and Contributors viii
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction: Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested
Identities 1
Rick !edema and Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
Part 1 Doing Identity Analysis: Articulation,
Challenge, Resistance in the Narration of
the Public and of the Self 15
1 Identity, Development, and Desire: Critical Questions 17
fay L. Lemke
2 Branding the Self 43
David Machin and Thea van Leeuwen
3 Identity Work and Transnational Adoption: Discursive
Representations of the 'Adoptive-Parent-To-Be' in the Satellite
Texts of a Danish TV Documentary Series 58
Pirkko Raudaskoski and Paul Mcllvenny
4 When (non) Anglo-Saxon Queers Speak in a Queer Language:
Homogeneous Identities or Disenfranchised Bodies? 77
Maite Escudero Alias
5 Multiple Identities, Migration and Belonging: 'Voices of Migrants' 95
Michal Krzyzanowski and Ruth Wodak
6 Mongrel Selves: Identity Change, Displacement and
Multi-Positioning 120
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Amelia Maria Fernandes Alves
7 By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them: On Linguistic Identity 143
Malcolm Coulthard
8 Cybergirls in Trouble? Fan Fiction as a Discursive Space for
Interrogating Gender and Sexuality 156
Sirpa Leppanen
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9 'I'm good.' 'I'm nice.' 'I'm beautiful.' Idealization and
Contradiction in Female Psychiatric Patients' Discourse 180
Branca Telles Ribeiro and Maria Tereza Lopes Dantas
Part 2 New Ways of Understanding Identity/Identities
in Professional Settings 203
10 Shifting Identities in the Classroom 205
Stanton Wortham
11 Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational
Change 229
Carl Rhodes, Hermine Scheeres and Rick !edema
12 Attempting Clinical Democracy: Enhancing Multivocality in a
Multidisciplinary Clinical Team 250
Debbi Long, Bonsan Bonne Lee and Jeffrey Braithwaite
13 Embodying the Contemporary 'Clinician-Manager':
Entrepreneurializing Middle Management? 273
Rick !edema, Susan Ainsworth and David Grant
Index 292
Tables and Figures
Tables
6.1 A typology of departure 124
13.1 Summarizing the main differences between the NM's and
the MM's interview extracts 285
Figures
5.1 Schematic representation of modes of belonging 103
6.1 Brazilian community publications 129
6.2 Brazilian community web page 130
6.3 The London School of Samba 131
6.4 Advert for Capoeira 133
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Notes on Editors and Contributors
Susan Ainsworth is a lecturer in organizational studies in the School of Busi
ness, at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include the social con
struction of identity, discourse analysis, and the intersection of gender, age,
employment and public policy. She has jointly contributed a chapter (with
Cynthia Hardy) on discourse and identity in the Sage Handbook on Organiza
tional Discourse.
Maite Escudero Alias is an assistant lecturer in the Department of English
and German Philology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where she has
recently obtained her PhD on drag kings and female masculinities. While
her teaching activity concentrates on English for Specific Purposes at the
School of Engineering, her research centers on feminism, queer theory and
cultural studies. Her publications comprise articles and book chapters on
the topics above as well as teaching materials on the Internet.
Amelia Maria Fernandes Alves was formerly Assistant Professor of British
and American Literatures at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. As a
Fulbright scholar in the United States, she conducted her doctoral research in
cultural and social studies related to post-modern literature. She was the press
officer at the Embassy of Brazil in London and manager of the Dialogo Brasil,
a project with the Brazilian community in the United Kingdom.
Jeffrey Braithwaite is Professor and Director of the Centre for Clinical
Governance Research at University of New South Wales, Australia. His
programmes of research centre on the changing nature of health systems, par
ticularly the structure and culture of health sector organizations and insti
tutions. He is Principal Investigator on two Australian Research Council
Linkage grants.
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard was formerly Professor of English Language
and Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. She
is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bir
mingham, UK, where she teaches and researches in the areas of critical dis
course, culture and communication, media, gender, narrative and translation
studies. Her book publications include: News as Social Practice, Texts and Prac
tices: Reading in Critical Discourse Analysis (ed. with M. Coulthard), Social
Semiotics-Special Issue-Critical Social Semiotics (ed. with Theo Van Leeuwen)
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Notes on Editors and Contributors ix
and The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology (ed. with Michael Toolan). She is
the Debate Editor of the journal Critical Discourse Studies.
Malcolm Coulthard is Professor of Forensic Linguistics at the University of
Aston, having recently retired from the University of Birmingham. He is prob
ably best known for his work on the analysis of spoken and written discourse
and the books An Introduction to Discourse Analysis and Advances in Written
Text Analysis. However, since the late 1980s he has become increasingly
involved with forensic applications of linguistics. He was the Foundation
President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists and the found
ing editor of the journal Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of Speech
Language and the Law.
Maria Tereza Lopes Dantas is a psychologist, and PhD candidate in Linguis
tics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, presently investigating
the construction of identity in research interviews with psychiatric patients.
Her work contributes to an umbrella project on language and communication
in psychiatric settings at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She co-edited
the book Narrativa, Identidade e Clinica (Narrative and Identity in Clinical Settings).
David Grant is Professor of Organizational Studies, the School of Business, at
the University of Sydney. He is also a co-director of the International Centre
for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change. His primary
research interest is organizational discourse, especially where it relates to orga
nizational change. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Organizational Discourse
(with Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick and Linda Putnam).
Rick !edema is Professor of Organizational Communication and Associate
Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. His work targets the study of
clinical communication in hospitals and straddles the areas of organization
studies, health services research, discourse analysis and video-ethnography.
His research investigates how doctors, nurses, allied health staff and managers
communicate about the organization of their hospital work, and inquires into
whether and how clinicians' communications realize the intent of twenty-first
century hospital reform initiatives. He has published widely in health and
management journals. His latest publication (as editor) is The Discourses of
Hospital Communication, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007.
Michal Krzyzanowski is a research fellow at the Department of Linguistics
and English Language, Lancaster University, UK, where he moved in 2004
from the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. His
main research interest is in Critical Discourse Analysis and the develop
ment and application of the CDA's 'Discourse-Historical' approach to the