introduction

[felicitas macgilchrist]

Hi Cornelia,
I found Jonathon Potter's 'Representing Reality' (1996) really useful for
thinking about how people are described as experts. In particular, what he
calls 'category entitlement' - for example this is not just Samantha Smith,
this is Samantha Smith, the manager of X, well-known for doing Y and with
decades of experience in Z.
Potter has more details about how membership to these categories are 'worked
up' and rebutted, and even a couple of examples from TV ;)
All the best,
Flyss



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From: "Cornelia Gerhardt" <c.gerhardt at MX.UNI-SAARLAND.DE>
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Subject: introduction


> Dear all,
>
> I've just joined this list and was asked to introduce myself.
>
> I am working as a graduate assistant for the chair of English linguistics
> at
> Saarland university in Germany. I am currently writing a thesis on the
> talk of
> people watching sports on television. The question I am tackling right now
> is
> how people manage to become seen as experts through talk.
>
> I'd be grateful for any information about work that has been done
> previously in
> this field.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Cornelia Gerhardt
> Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
> Lehrstuhl für englische Philologie - Sprachwissenschaft
> Universität des Saarlandes
>
> c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de
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