The rhetoric of a former corporate job. How people construct their working experience in conversation

The rhetoric of a former corporate job. How people construct their working experience in conversation

The present article looked into the way people construct their former working experiences in conversation. As a main analysis outcome I was interested in the narrative patterns that emerge when people recollect the stories of the jobs they had in different corporations. As a secondary analysis outco...

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Main Author: Alina Petra Marinescu-Nenciu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
Subjects:
I assessed six unstructured interviews with men and women alike in terms of age
earned incomes and who held a university diploma. The following analysis was grounded on a constructivist approach and sensible to the interviewees’ work of self-presentation. I also paid attention to the interactions people talked about and to the cultural resources they used in conversation. Irony
humor
vocabularies of motives
categories and contrast structures were the discursive tools people engaged in their stories most frequently determining me to consider them key-concepts of the present study. Moreover
gender was taken into consideration as discursive pattern. The conclusions of the paper point out to the fact that various types of narrative patterns emerged when my interviewees recollected their working experiences. One of the most salient was connected with the story-like construction of the recollections. People’s narrations included expositions
climaxes
all sorts of good and bad characters and trials they had to overcome. The second important pattern was given by the resembling flow of feelings as resulting from the narrations. All the interviwees were enthusiastic to enter the companies
felt alienated as time went by
deceit – in the end and resignation after some time outside the companies. The third notable pattern came with a difference in gender. In this spirit
Story
pattern
discursive constructionism
narrative self
working experience
corporation
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