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Wang, Weichao; Peng, Huan – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper analyzes dialogues between insurance sales agents and their clients in transformational rural China from the perspective of interactive frames, footings and discourse identities. Through the analysis of three types of talk, namely, friendship talk, institutional talk and task-oriented talk, the ambiguous and conflicting identities that…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Sales Occupations, Social Change, Discourse Analysis
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Lin, Qiuming – English Language Teaching, 2017
The current study aims to investigate the discursive construction and navigation of agency in oral narratives of English learning by Chinese college English majors. Based on the theoretical framework integrating Bamberg et. al.'s theory of identity dilemma and Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics, the study has addressed two research…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students)
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Méndez, Pilar; Garzón, Eliana; Noriega-Borja, Rodolfo – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper problematizes the meaning of subjectivity constructed by Colombian English Teachers in response to a National Bilingual Program and its system of reason to produce English teachers' identity and promote bilingual education. The double-side character of subjection/subjectification (Foucault, 1982) is used to analyze English teachers'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis