Stephanie Schnurr

List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephanie Schnurr is involved.

Journal

Pragmatics and Society

Edited by Daria Dayter

ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722

Titles

Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 32:1 (2022) vi, 243 pp.

Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Stephanie Schnurr

This collection provides a kaleidoscopic view of a range of identity struggles in the workplace context. It features twenty-two case studies that present an eclectic mix of workplaces in different socio-cultural contexts. They include, among others, household workers in Peru and Hong Kong, female… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 69] 2017. xi, 457 pp.

Stavridou, Anastasia, Haiyan Huang, Kim Schoofs, Stephanie Schnurr and Dorien Van De Mieroop 2023 Negotiating identities in stories of anti-Chinese racism during the COVID-19 pandemic Language, Culture and Society 5:1, pp. 43–72 | Article

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an upsurge of anti-Chinese racism. This paper investigates the socio-pragmatic processes through which Chinese international students in Belgium discursively deal with othering processes in the stories they tell about racist… read more

Van De Mieroop, Dorien, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr 2022 Narratives as social practice in organisational contexts: Introduction Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts, Van De Mieroop, Dorien, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Introduction

Schnurr, Stephanie and Dorien Van De Mieroop 2017 Chapter 1. Introduction: A kaleidoscopic view of identity struggles at work Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world, Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter

Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Stephanie Schnurr 2017 Chapter 24. Epilogue: Identity struggles as a reflection of knowledge, competing norms, and attempts for social change Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world, Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 445–454 | Chapter

Zayts-Spence, Olga and Stephanie Schnurr 2017 Chapter 5. Epistemic “Struggles”: When nurses’ expert identity is challenged by “knowledgeable” clients Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world, Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 79–94 | Chapter

This chapter examines telephone consultations between genetic nurses and new mothers whose infants have been diagnosed with the hereditary condition G6PD deficiency. These consultations aim at informing the mothers about the condition and its management. We focus on interactions… read more

Choi, Seongsook and Stephanie Schnurr 2016 Enacting and negotiating power relations through teasing in distributed leadership constellations Pragmatics and Society 7:3, pp. 482–502 | Article

This paper explores how power relations are enacted and negotiated in the largely under-researched non-hierarchal leadership constellation of distributed leadership. Drawing on more than 300 hours of audio-recorded interactions of a corpus of interdisciplinary research group meetings, we analyse… read more

Schnurr, Stephanie, Dorien Van De Mieroop and Olga Zayts-Spence 2014 Positioning oneself in relation to larger collectivities in expatriates’ workplace narratives Narrative Inquiry 24:2, pp. 386–407 | Article

This article aims to explore narratives as sites for identity construction by employing the concept of positioning to analyse some of the discursive processes through which identity construction is accomplished in institutional contexts. Our specific foci are i) the ways in which individuals… read more

Schnurr, Stephanie and Olga Zayts-Spence 2012 ‘you have to be adaptable, obviously’: constructing professional identities in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity, Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Jonathan Clifton (eds.), pp. 279–300 | Article

In spite of the increasing globalisation of the work domain and the mobilization of the workforce (Wong et al. 2007) only very little attention has been paid to the interplay between culture and professional identities in workplace contexts. This paper addresses this gap by exploring some of the… read more

Zayts-Spence, Olga and Stephanie Schnurr 2012 Chapter 9. ‘You may know better than I do’: Negotiating advice-giving in Down Syndrome screening in a Hong Kong prenatal hospital Advice in Discourse, Limberg, Holger and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 195–212 | Chapter

This paper explores patient-initiated advice during a screening program for Down Syndrome in a Hong Kong hospital. In managing these requests medical providers have to balance the opposing demands of ensuring patient autonomy in decision-making while at the same time responding to patients’… read more

Schnurr, Stephanie and Janet Holmes 2009 Using humor to do masculinity at work Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Article

Workplaces constitute sites where individuals “do gender” while at the same time constructing their professional identities and meeting their organisation’s expectations. In most workplaces, a rather narrow range of masculine styles of interaction are considered normative. Discursive strategies… read more