Genre Structure and Disciplinary Identity in Candidate Statements for an ELT Association Election

Despite the literature extensively exploring identity construction in the selfpromotion genre, there is a scarcity of studies investigating how a discipline-related identity is shaped through voice in candidate statements.To address this gap, the present study conducted a move analysis to examine how a disciplinary identity is constructed using voice in candidate statements.The study involved 31 candidate statements written by English instructors vying for seats in an ELT association board election in 2020.The analyses followed several procedures, including identifying moves and steps of candidate statements to determine their rhetorical functions.Subsequently, we adopted Thompson's model of three voice levels (2012) for voice analysis, which was expanded by Li and Deng (2021): the propositional content level, the structural level, and the holistic level.The findings indicate that candidates strategically employed distinct voicing techniques to garner sufficient votes, expressing their disciplinary identities through propositional, structural, and holistic voice levels.The study concludes by discussing the pedagogical implications arising from these findings.