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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Rok 2016 
Tom 14 
Numer 3

Resume as Narrative: A Linguist reflects on the process of professional storybuilding

Anna Trester
FrameWorks Institute, United States

2016 14 (3) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Abstrakt

While professional identities (like all identities) are largely discursively accomplished, the specific contextualized components which constitute “sounding professional” are often poorly understood, or indeed recognized more often in their absence. This presents an interesting challenge to those tasked with learning these ways of talking in securing a job, for example graduate students in a professionally-oriented MA program in sociolinguistics. This paper considers the linguistic process of presenting a professional identity, with particular focus on the resume as a very carefully constructed storyworld in which every linguistic choice (i.e. referring expression) contributes to positionings that construct and convey identity. Just as with any story, through the choices that we make in highlighting one aspect of a job over another “our identities as social beings emerge as we construct our own individual experiences as a way to position ourselves in relation to social and cultural expectations” (Schiffrin 1996).

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APA style

Trester, Anna Marie (2016). Resume as Narrative: A Linguist reflects on the process of professional storybuilding. (2016). Resume as Narrative: A Linguist reflects on the process of professional storybuilding. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 14(3), 127-136. (Original work published 2016)

MLA style

Trester, Anna Marie. „Resume As Narrative: A Linguist Reflects On The Process Of Professional Storybuilding”. 2016. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, t. 14, nr 3, 2016, ss. 127-136.

Chicago style

Trester, Anna Marie. „Resume As Narrative: A Linguist Reflects On The Process Of Professional Storybuilding”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 14, nr 3 (2016): 127-136.