“Border Crossing”in English Job-Seeking Discourse——Informalization and Marketization in One Creative Résumé

Border crossing is a metaphoric term in sociolinguistics referring to a blurring of English use across different domains of social discourses.This article shows how border crossing in English job-seeking discourse is manifested in a real-life English creative résumé,and how this phenomenon brings about two related consequences,informalization and marketization,through critically analyzing the informal and promotional features of the résumé.It then reaches the conclusion that such border crossing phenomenon reflects a voice by the young in reconstructing their self-identities in job-seeking discourse in post-industrialized,post-modern western societies.

南唐状元张确籍贯仕历考

张确,福建沙县崇信乡德星里(今沙县高桥镇高桥村)人。自小才艺出众,词学蜚声乡里。南唐后主末年二月,高中状元。正逢村里建桥,乡亲因张确高第而取“高”为桥名和村名。张确夺魁后,授职文林郎,守秘书省校书郎。宋绍定年间,知南剑州兼招捕使陈韦华 发布文告,将张确所在乡崇信乡改为翔鸾乡,德星里改为化龙里,本户徭差并与蠲免。