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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

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
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.
Published online: 1 June 2012
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https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22.2.02ost
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