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LRDG seminar: "Who do you think wrote that?" : The Discoursal Construction of Writer Identity by Three Adult Literacy Students

Date: 11 November 2008 Time: 1.00 - 2.00 pm

Amy Burgess, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre

"Who do you think wrote that?" : The Discoursal Construction of Writer Identity by Three Adult Literacy Students

The relationship between writing and identity has previously been explored in various settings, notably within Higher Education, and the concept of discourse has been a useful analytical tool. However, the issue has been largely absent from research into writing in adult literacy education. This paper explores the relationship between discourses and three adult literacy students' developing identities as writers by analysing texts they produced in their classes. It asks the questions: what discourses do the students draw on in their writing; how are they positioned by these discourses; and how does this positioning affect their development as writers? Frameworks developed in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis are deployed to analyse the student writers' representations of social actors, social action and time. The analysis suggests that some of the most salient discourses on which the students drew positioned them as deficient and/or socially subordinate and that this negative positioning impeded their development as writers. The paper concludes by suggesting the value of applying concepts developed within CDA to writing produced by novice writers and pointing out some directions for future research.

Venue: IAS Meeting Room 1

Event website: http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk

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Who can attend: Anyone