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Negotiating Solidarity: A Social-Linguistic Approach to Job Interviews
AUTHOR: Lipovsky, Caroline
TITLE: Negotiating Solidarity: A Social-Linguistic Approach to Job Interviews
PUBLISHER: Cambridge Scholars
YEAR: 2010
Laura Callahan, The City College of the City University of New York
INTRODUCTION
This book, based on the author's dissertation research, contains six chapters, references, and an index. The reference section includes a list of popular literature on the subject of job interviews in addition to academic works.
SUMMARY
Chapter One: Introduction
Lipovsky introduces the concept of impression management and performance, based on Goffman's work (1959). In line with the notion of performance, interviewers expect candidates to have prepared for an interview, that is, to have rehearsed their answers. In most job nterview situations candidates are assumed to possess the basic qualifications for the position, otherwise they would not have been invited for an interview, and therefore what matters more is the rapport between the interviewer and potential new hire. The author aims to show what linguistic resources job candidates, by and large, but also interviewers, use to
establish relationships with and control impressions they produce in their interlocutor.
Chapter Two: The Interview Corpus: Particulars, Collection and Methods of Analysis
Chapter Three: Negotiating Expertise
Chapter Four: Negotiating Affiliation
Chapter Five: Negotiating Co-Membership
Chapter Six: Concluding Remarks
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