This book explores debaters' professional identity construction through implicit negation in televised debates from an interpersonal pragmatic perspective. It reveals the linguistic strategies used to indirectly negate the identity of others, and highlights three pairs of professional identity constructed through implicit negation: (1) expert vs. non-expert identity, (2) outsider vs. insider identity, (3) authentic vs. false identity. Furthermore, it proposes the Inter-relationality Principle, self-through-other identity and other-through-self identity, which contribute to Bucholtz and Hall's theory of identity construction. Lastly, the book discusses the relations between professional identity construction through implicit negation and im/politeness, and builds a model of professional identity construction through implicit negation based on interpersonal pragmatics.

By focusing on the interpersonal pragmatics of professional identity construction, the book advances the interpersonal pragmatic study of identity construction, im/politeness and implicit negation. As such, it is a valuable resource for a broad readership, including graduate students, and scholars who are interested in professional identity construction, implicit negation and im/politeness research.

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Li Chengtuan is a professor of linguistics at the Faculty of English Language and Culture, and a researcher at the Center of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, P. R. China. His recent research covers pragmatics and discourse analysis, especially identity construction, im/politeness, moral norm and cross-cultural communication. He has published papers in the Journal of Pragmatics, Text & Talk, Intercultural Pragmatics, and Pragmatics & Society, as well as book chapters with Routledge.

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Figures and TablesContentsChapter One Introduction1.1The object of the study1.2Rationale of the study1.3 Objectives of the study1.4 The outline of the studyChapter Two Methodology of the Study2.1 Introduction2.2 Data collection and transcription conventions2.2.1 Data collection2.2.2 The transcription conventions2.2.3 Advantages and disadvantages of the data2.3 Features of televised debating programmes2.3.1 Institutional roles and their respective tasks2.3.2 Topic of current affairs of televised debating programmes2.3.3 Institution-specific goals of televised debating programmes2.4. Analytical tools and procedures of the dataChapter Three Literature Review3.1 Introduction3.2 Approaches to identity construction3.2.1 Identity study following the sociolinguistic approach3.2.1.1 The social constructionism approach3.2.1.2 The narrative approach3.2.2 Identity study in conversation analysis3. 2. 3 Identity study from a psychological perspective3.2.3.1 Social identity theory3.2.3.2 Positioning theory and positioning analysis3.2.3.2.1 Positioning theory3.2.3.2.2 Positioning analysis3.2.4 Identity study using the pragmatic approach3.2.4.1 Identity construction and its markers3.2.4.2 Identity, face and im/politeness3.3 Implicit negation3.4 Achievements and limitations in the prior studies3.5 SummaryChapter Four The Conceptual Framework4.1 Introduction4.2 Working definition of professional identity construction4.2.1 Intentionality4.2.2 Multiplicity4.2.3 Relationality4.3 Delimitation of professional identity construction via implicit negation4.3.1 Identity construction and positioning4.3.2 Identity construction and facework4.3.3 Identity construction and category4.4 Theoretical Support4.4.1 Giles & Powesland's Accommodation Theory4.4.2 Spencer-Oatey's Rapport Management Theory4.4.2.1 Components of rapport management4.4.2.2 Rapport orientations4.4.3 Bucholtz & Hall's Theory of Identity and Interaction4.5 The conceptual framework of the present research4.5.1 Implicit negation of other-identity in interaction4.5.2 Categorization of professional identity construction via implicit negation4.5.3 Professional identity construction via implicit negation and im/politeness4.6 SummaryChapter Five Implicit Negation of Other-Identity in Interaction5.1 Introduction5.2 The accommodative strategies for implicit negation5. 2.1 Convergences for implicit negation5.2.1.1 Positive convergences for implicit negation5.2.1.1.1 Deprecating self-identity5.2.1.1.2 Token acknowledgement of other-identity5.2.1.2 Negative convergences for implicit negation5.2.1.2.1 Re-defining other-identity5.2.1.2.2 Innuendo of other-identity5.2.2 Divergence strategies for implicit negation5.2.2.1 Positive divergences for implicit negation5.2.2.1.1 Drawing an analogy5.2.2.1.2Turning to the 3rd non/present party5.2.2.1.3 Explicit self-identification5.2.2.1.4 Utilizing indexical shifts or depersonalization5.2.2.2 Negative divergences for implicit negation5.2.2.2.1 Drawing an analogy via improper vocatives5.2.2.2.2 Rhetorical questions5.2.2.2.3 Using a tautology5.3 A model of implicit negation of other-identity5.4 ConclusionChapter Six Professional Identity Construction via Implicit Negation6.1 Introduction</div&...