Publications

Publication details [#44711]

Wodak, Ruth and Ina Wagner. 2006. Performing success: identifying strategies of self-presentation in women's biographical narratives. Discourse & Society 17 (3) : 385–411.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

narrative | self-presentation | women's language | writing

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper uses discursive self-representation strategies occurring in the biographies of eight highly professional women to discuss how women live and ‘perform’ success.