The presentation of self in résumés: an intercultural approach
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The presentation of self in résumés: an intercultural approachFecha de publicación
2008Editor
Università degli Studi di FoggiaISSN
19728247Tipo de documento
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In this paper, résumés in two languages and two cultures, Peninsular Spanish and
American English, are analysed. For this qualitative analysis, we have relied on the
dual perspective proposed by Flowerdew (2005) ... [+]
In this paper, résumés in two languages and two cultures, Peninsular Spanish and
American English, are analysed. For this qualitative analysis, we have relied on the
dual perspective proposed by Flowerdew (2005) which postulates a complementary
usage of linguistic and ethnographic approaches to the study of genre.
The analysis of discourse is based on tenets of genre analysis (Swales 1990;
Unger 2007) which have traditionally constituted a substantial part of the theoretical
basis of the LSP field. However, it also introduces tenets from sociolinguistics
and pragmatics (Brown & Levinson 1987; Scollon & Scollon 2001) as résumés
crucially involve the presentation of self – namely the construction of professional
identity of candidates (de Fina et al. 2006; Dyer & Keller-Cohen 2000). The
ethnographic approach consists of interviews of recruiters from both cultures to
find out what their expectations are relative to applicants’ presentation of selves.
The results, although tentative, indicate that cultural expectations in terms of
what constitutes an adequate résumé vary between the two cultures, especially
with respect to the type of personal information provided and the lexico-syntactic
structures that candidates use to distance themselves from their achievements [-]
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