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This book explores how academics at conferences co-construct their
own and each other's professional identities. It is based on the
detailed sequential analysis of audio recordings of conference
discussions in the field of the humanities, the working languages
being French and English. The analyses show that the delegates who
actively participate in these interactions, whether as presenters,
chairpersons or as members of the audience, carry out a
considerable amount of identity work, attributing self and other to
various categories of professional identity. The discussion
participants co-construct themselves and each other discursively as
academics, professionals, experts, junior or senior members of the
scientific community; they also orient to this identity work as an
important task to be achieved at conferences. This study provides
detailed insights into the fine-grained mechanics of spoken
academic discourse. From the perspective of applied research it
serves the double purpose of raising experienced researchers'
awareness of their own routines and introducing novices to the
discourse practices of academia.
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