LINGUIST List 21.2441 Wed Jun 02 2010 Diss: Disc Analysis/Socioling: Munsie: 'Working Between Cultures: ...' Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Jennifer Munsie, Working Between Cultures: Expatriates' management of the self through intercultural change Message 1: Working Between Cultures: Expatriates' management of the self through intercultural change Date: 02-Jun-2010 From: Jennifer Munsie <dr.jennifer.munsiehotmail.com> Subject: Working Between Cultures: Expatriates' management of the self through intercultural change E-mail this message to a friend Institution: University of Manchester Program: Department of Psychology Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2010 Author: Jennifer Munsie Dissertation Title: Working Between Cultures: Expatriates' management of the self through intercultural change Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Sociolinguistics Dissertation Director: Ivan Leudar Wes Sharrock Dissertation Abstract: This thesis investigates the phenomenon of acculturation of a particular migrant category, expatriates, as a member's phenomenon. Studying people at the interface of cross-cultural contact show people doing a variety of regulating activities with language. The pragmatics of talk and stories done in situated interview contexts about being 'expatriate' are the unit of analysis. My aim with this research is to study self and culture differently; i.e. empirically, through a method underpinned by a theoretical framework which assumes a dialogical ontology of self. The research contained in this paper benefits from this theoretical underpinning by orienting the analysis of autobiographical textual data toward the polyphonic nature of the subjective positioning or 'polyphony'. Analysis on the acculturation of expatriates benefits from this theory by orienting my analysis of autobiographical textual data toward the polyphonic nature of the subjective positioning. To accomplish this I use a multi-variant methodological framework which combines Ethnomethodology (EM), Conversation Analysis (CA), Discourse Analysis (DA) and Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA). The methodological framework I use in this paper includes an extension on Sacks' (1992) work on stories embedded within conversation. The data used are the situated narrative activities of people sharing their experiences with others on internet-based Expat Message Boards as well as in interviews. In the context of internet-based message board and interviews, participants make certain contingencies relevant to their stories as 'expats'. The participant couples coordinate their activities in order to tell of a collective story. I argue that the achieved similarity or variability of topics and character positions within interaction is evidence of dialogism in subjectivity and inter-subjectivity in action by showing the ways in which people orient their stories either in response or in anticipation to others. I aim to show the ways in which culture modulates, is debated, negotiated and/or re-created among them through their situated activity; allowing me to explicate the dialogicity of self through acculturative narrative accounts. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.