Karyn Stapleton

TL;DR: This article found that both female and male participants reported habitually deploying strong language in the context of shared group enterprises, although a number of subtle, yet persistent gender differences reflect the respondents' location within wider sociocultural context(s).

TL;DR: This article analyzed the public testimony of four banking CEOs to the Banking Crisis Inquiry of the Treasury Committee of the UK House of Commons in 2009 and concluded that the CEO discourse is characterized by expressions of regret, attempts to articulate alignment with others affected by the crisis and dissociation from the events being scrutinized, in order to avoid direct culpability for the crisis.

TL;DR: In this article, a linguistic analysis of policing discourses in Northern Ireland is used to explore the thematic frameworks and interactional/pragmatic strategies through which the speakers jointly produce a "discourse of resistance", effectively blocking acceptance of the new service.

TL;DR: The authors examined two separate tellings of a political/community narrative in a Belfast nationalist community and showed how community narrative operates as a shared sense-making resource for members, and demonstrated that different discourse activities are used to realise the underlying template, and hence argued against seeking definitive descriptions of narrative discourse.

TL;DR: Personal identity requires agentic mediation of overlapping social structures and categories; and further the maintenance of a coherent self across different life contexts as discussed by the authors, which is a central means of achie...