Person or Place: Rhetorical Construction of Librarian and Library by the Information Profession Community = La personne ou le lieu: la construction rhétorique du bibliothécaire et de la bibliothèque par la communauté des professionnels de l’information

The rhetorical construction of place plays a central role in librarians’ identity repertoires. As librarians construct their professional identity, they use the rhetorical device of metonym to refer to themselves as the “library.” This metonymic slippage allows librarians to lay claim to the library as their exclusive professional domain.Résumé:La construction rhétorique du lieu joue un rôle central dans les répertoires d’identité des bibliothécaires. Quand les bibliothécaires édifient leur identité professionnelle, ils utilisent la figure rhétorique de la métonymie pour se désigner eux-mêmes comme “la bibliothèque.” Ce glissement métonymique permet aux bibliothécaires de prétendre que la bibliothèque est leur domaine professionnel exclusif.

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