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Publication details [#55464]

Attenborough, Frederick Thomas. 2011. ‘I don’t f***ing care!’ Marginalia and the (textual) negotiation of an academic identity by university students. Discourse & Communication 5 (2) : 99–121.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | footing | tension | textbook | university

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

Using discourse analytic notions such as ‘footing’ and ‘stake’, this study explores what student marginalia can learn about the management and negotiation of the tension between ‘doing education’ and ‘doing being a student’ in the hitherto unexplored site of the university library textbook.