This study investigated the professional identity construction of NNESTs (Non-native English-speaking teachers) in Taiwan. The research paradigm was rooted poststructuralism, which emphasizes subjectivity and exhibits multiple, unstable, non-linear properties inquiry. Participants comprised two male female in-service English teachers from public private senior high schools, whose teaching exper...

Problem setting. The relevance of our study is due to the excessive popularity concept «socio-cultural identity» as a scientific term and tool for studying postmodern world. As socio-humanitarian knowledge, it remains one most uncertain at same time actively used in modern research theoretical practical analysis typology socio-cultural processes. Understanding specifics identity its formation c...

WHILST the public debate over the ‘idea of Portuguese identity’ within the European context has taken place during this last decade in the media,1 I have not encountered (linguistic) studies on discourses of national identity construction and representation. Another omission is in-depth analyses of the media’s contribution to the reshaping of discourse(s) hence social practice(s) in relation to...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to research on organizational identity by developing a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, the author draws on Lacanian theorizing to explore how organizational identity discourse is informed by imaginary constructions of subjectivity. It is proposed that the collective construction of coherent, unitary and definably organizational identity disc...

Many studies have investigated social networks. So far little work has been done to explore the virtual identity construction in social network communities. The virtual identity that an individual constructed in the social network community may not be exactly same as his/her identity in the physical world. Using self-discrepancy theory and social capital theory as theoretical foundations, this ...

Identity is seen as a cultural and social construct, which indicates how we have been embodied and how we might represent ourselves. The knowledge that identities are the outputs of discourses is a familiar characteristic of some societal concepts. Gender, as an identity or a sense of our identity we build for ourselves, rather than something we are born with, is a constructed cultural category...

The first threshold identity-based encryption scheme secure against chosen identity and ciphertext attacks is proposed in this paper. Our construction is based on the recently proposed identity-based encryption scheme of Waters in EUROCRYPT 2005. The new threshold identity-based encryption scheme is non-interactive and does not rely on the random oracle model.

one of the most hot topic in recent years in management is organizational identity and more important than it, is identity construction which ignored in researches. nowadays in most of the public organizations, the increase of turnover rate, reducing employees` job satisfaction, increasing the amount of job absent, developing job alienation, and lack of accepting responsibility sense and genera...