Introduction: the dynamics of textual trajectories in professional and workplace practice
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Theresa Lillis
Theresa Lillis is Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. Her research interest in writing across a range of domains centers on the politics of production and participation. Authored, co-authored and edited books and Special Issues include
Academic Writing in a Global Context (with Mary Jane Curry, Routledge, 2010),The Sociolinguistics of Writing (EUP, 2013), “Theory in Applied Linguistics Research,”AILA Review (vol. 28, 2015) andThe Politics of Language and Creativity (co-edited with David Hann, The Open University, 2016).
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Janet Maybin
Janet Maybin was trained as a social anthropologist, and has written extensively for Open University modules on literacy and English language and language arts. A leading proponent of linguistic ethnographic methodology, she researches and writes on adults’ and children’s informal language practices, currently focusing on creativity and voice. Her most recent edited book is
Narrative, Language and Creativity: Contemporary Approaches (The Open University, 2016).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: the dynamics of textual trajectories in professional and workplace practice
- Textual trajectories: Theoretical roots and institutional consequences
- Recruiting Frontstage Entextualization: drafting, artifactuality and written-ness as resources in police – witness interviews
- Text bite news: the metapragmatics of feature news
- Imagined, prescribed and actual text trajectories: the “problem” with case notes in contemporary social work
- Continuity and change: semiotic relations across multimodal texts in surgical education
- Tracing trajectories as units of analysis for the study of social processes: addressing mobility and complexity in sociolinguistics
- Analyzing textual trajectories: Tensions in purpose and power relations
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: the dynamics of textual trajectories in professional and workplace practice
- Textual trajectories: Theoretical roots and institutional consequences
- Recruiting Frontstage Entextualization: drafting, artifactuality and written-ness as resources in police – witness interviews
- Text bite news: the metapragmatics of feature news
- Imagined, prescribed and actual text trajectories: the “problem” with case notes in contemporary social work
- Continuity and change: semiotic relations across multimodal texts in surgical education
- Tracing trajectories as units of analysis for the study of social processes: addressing mobility and complexity in sociolinguistics
- Analyzing textual trajectories: Tensions in purpose and power relations
