Identity Trouble

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction: Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities

      • Rick Iedema, Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

      Pages 1-14

3. Doing Identity Analysis: Articulation, Challenge, Resistance in the Narration of the Public and of the Self

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Identity, Development and Desire: Critical Questions

      • Jay L. Lemke

      Pages 17-42

   3. Branding the Self

      • David Machin, Theo van Leeuwen

      Pages 43-57

   4. Identity Work and Transnational Adoption: Discursive Representations of the ‘Adoptive-Parent-To-Be’ in the Satellite Texts of a Danish TV Documentary Series

      • Pirkko Raudaskoski, Paul McIlvenny

      Pages 58-76

   5. When (non) Anglo-Saxon Queers Speak in a Queer Language: Homogeneous Identities or Disenfranchised Bodies?

      • Maite Escudero Alías

      Pages 77-94

   6. Multiple Identities, Migration and Belonging: ‘Voices of Migrants’

      • Michał Krzyżanowski, Ruth Wodak

      Pages 95-119

   7. ‘Mongrel Selves’: Identity Change, Displacement and Multi-Positioning

      • Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Amelia Maria Fernandes Alves

      Pages 120-142

   8. By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them: On Linguistic Identity

      • Malcolm Coulthard

      Pages 143-155

   9. Cybergirls in Trouble? Fan Fiction as a Discursive Space for Interrogating Gender and Sexuality

      • Sirpa Leppänen

      Pages 156-179

   10. ‘I’m good.’ ‘I’m nice.’ ‘I’m beautiful.’ Idealization and Contradiction in Female Psychiatric Patients’ Discourse

       • Branca Telles Ribeiro, Maria Tereza Lopes Dantas

       Pages 180-202

4. New Ways of Understanding Identity/Identities in Professional Settings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Shifting Identities in the Classroom

      • Stanton Wortham

      Pages 205-228

   3. Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational Change

      • Carl Rhodes, Hermine Scheeres, Rick Iedema

      Pages 229-249

   4. Attempting Clinical Democracy: Enhancing Multivocality in a Multidisciplinary Clinical Team

      • Debbi Long, Bonsan Bonne Lee, Jeffrey Braithwaite

      Pages 250-272

   5. Embodying the Contemporary ‘Clinician-Manager’: Entrepreneurializing Middle Management?

      • Rick Iedema, Susan Ainsworth, David Grant

      Pages 273-291

5. Back Matter

   Pages 292-295

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Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured.

• discourse
• gender
• identity
• migration
• discourse analysis

• Centre for English Language Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

  Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  Rick Iedema

MAITE ESCUDERO ALÍAS University of Zaragoza, Spain AMÉLIA MARIA FERNANDES ALVES Embassy of Brazil in Caracas, Venezuela SUSAN AINSWORTH University of Sydney, Australia JEFFREY BRAITHWAITE University of New South Wales, Australia CARMEN ROSA CALDAS-COULTHARD University of Birmingham, UK MALCOLM COULTHARD, University of Aston, Birmingam, UK MARIA TEREZA LOPES DANTAS Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DAVID GRANT University of Sydney, Australia RICK IEDEMA University of Technology, Sydney, Australia MICHAL KRZYZANOWSKI Lancaster University, UK BONSAN BONNE LEE Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia JAY L. LEMKE University of Michigan, USA SIRPA LEPPÄNEN University of Jyväskylä, Finland DEBBI LONG University of New South Wales. Australia DAVID MACHIN University of Leicester, UK PAUL McILVENY University of Aalborg, Denmark PIRKKO RAUDASKOSKI University of Aalborg, Denmark BRANCA TELLES RIBEIRO Lesley University, Boston, USA CARL RHODES University of Technology, Sydney, Australia HERMINE SCHEERES University of Technology, Sydney, Australia THEO VAN LEEUWEN University of Technology, Sydney, Australia RUTH WODAK University of Lancaster, UK STANTON WORTHAM University of Pennsylvania, USA

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