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Zhang, Jing. 2018. Developing proximity of possible disciplinary selves in narratives: An alternative approach to explore the representation of individual in context. Discourse Studies 20 (4) : 544–562.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper uses a Systemic Functional Linguistics frame of appraisal theory to read the behavioural and attitudinal resources in written narratives and presents the idea of proximity as an alternative representation to account the meaning-making process of Chinese students’ possible selves in a context of UK-based transnational university in China.