Developing proximity of possible disciplinary selves in narratives
An alternative approach to explore the representation of individual in context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5965877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jing Zhang (0000-0002-6431-9286, University International College, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 544-562 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445618754430 |
| OpenAlex | W2796495494 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article adopts a Systemic Functional Linguistics framework of appraisal theory to interpret the behavioural and attitudinal resources in written narratives and proposes the idea of proximity as an alternative representation to explain the meaning-making process of Chinese students’ possible selves in a less examined context of UK-based transnational university in China, by focusing on the lexical and semantic explanation of how these Chinese students use and are mediated by contextual resources in discourse. Six written narratives were collected from six Chinese students from the School of International Communications at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). The overall findings revealed that all six Chinese students from different years shaped proximal past, current and future possible disciplinary selves through repeated engagement and positive alignment with the contextual values, although they had differentiated developmental processes of using and being mediated by the contextual recourses. This article concludes by arguing for a need to investigate the Chinese learners in the current changing world by looking at their repertoire experience of disciplinary learning and reservoir context
China · Discipline · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Political science · Repertoire · Social science · Sociology · Systemic functional linguistics · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology
Language, Context, and Text
The Language of Evaluation
Disciplinary Identities
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Reading Images
The international branch campus as transnational strategy in higher education
Universities in a competitive global marketplace
Internationalization of Higher Education in the Developing and Emerging Countries
Beyond Exchange
Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts
Strategies of discourse comprehension
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Possible selves
Structures of Discourse and Structures of Power
Document Analysis as a Qualitative Research Method
Narrative
Toward a Theory of Independent Learning and Teaching
Narrative as self-portrait
Possible selves and delinquency
Stance and engagement
New Discourse on Language
Small cultures
Discourse Strategies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |