Article published In: The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity
Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Jonathan Clifton
[Pragmatics 22:2] 2012
► pp. 203–230
Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil
The case of responses to assessment turns
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.
Published online: 1 June 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22.2.02ost
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22.2.02ost
The current study looks at the construction of professional identity and its relations with gender, by analyzing the discursive practices of a unique set of contrasting groups, i.e. three parallel institutions created to address violence against women in Brazil: An all female police station and two crisis intervention centers – one run by feminists professionals and the other run by lay women from a working class community. In particular, the study investigates how the professionals in each setting respond to self and other assessments made by the female victims of violence.
Keywords: Adjacency pairs, Identity, Assessment turns, Institutional interaction, Gender
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