Chapter Six Constructing Identity as a Dynamic Pro...
Chapter Five has provided a detailed description of what identities tends to be chosen by advice-givers to construct through making linguistic choices in their advising sequences. This chapter attempts to examine the dynamic process of identity construction in advising sequences. As discussed in Section 3.2.3, identity construction is fundamentally a dynamic process, which is mainly unfolded in the temporal dimension of verbal interaction. In academic advising interaction, identity construction is also unfolded in a constantly changing process. It can be divided into two types. One is the identity modification, which is concerned with how advice-givers dynamically modify their default expert identity and make salient one aspect of an expert in the dynamic process of their advising sequences. The other type is the identity shift, which concerns how advice-givers shift from the construction of one identity to another in their advising sequences. These two types will be examined in Sections 6.1 and 6.2 respectively. This will be followed by a summary in Section 6.3.