Sophie Reissner-Roubicek
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sophie Reissner-Roubicek plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 4. Closeness at a distance: Positioning in Brazilian workplace emails Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 81–104 | Chapter
Social relationships are argued to have a special importance in Brazilian workplaces, as in Brazil generally (Amado and Brasil 1991; Fonseca and Castor 2005; Tanure and Duarte 2005), but scarce attention has been paid to the way such relationships are indexed through language. This research… read more
2017 Chapter 4. Juggling “I”s and “we”s with “he”s and “she”s: Negotiating novice professional identities in stories of teamwork told in New Zealand job interviews Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world, Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Chapter
Teamwork is perennially among graduate employers’ most wished-for competencies, and how candidates respond to teamwork questions can be pivotal to success or failure. This chapter addresses novice interviewees’ struggles to construct professional competence in line with the… read more
2012 “The guys would like to have a lady:” The co-construction of gender and professional identity in interviews between employers and female engineering students The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity, Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Jonathan Clifton (eds.), pp. 231–254 | Article
Gender and professional identity are intertwined particularly in professions where women are underrepresented, making gender identities and professional identities simultaneously relevant. A promising area for inquiry into identity construction (and one where the effect of actions to increase the… read more