Publications

Publication details [#61633]

Gordon, Cynthia and Melissa Luke. 2016. “We Are in the Room to Serve Our Clients”. We and Professional Identity Socialization in E-Mail Supervision of Counselors-in-Training. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 35 (1) : 56–75.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

counseling | e-mail communication | identity negotiation | professional language | socialization

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

E-mail inspection of 23 counseling trainees, finishing internships, reveals how interns mainly employ exclusive we, signifying themselves and (non-supervising) others, whereas supervisors employ professional we, meaning the professional community of practice. This aids to grasp online linguistic evolvement of professional identities and relations.