Language and identities

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Language and identities

edited by Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt

Edinburgh University Press, c2010

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-300) and index

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Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities at different levels - individual, group, regional and national. It brings together over 20 specially commissioned chapters, written by distinguished international scholars, on a range of topics around the language/identity nexus. The collection deals sequentially with identities at various levels, both social and personal. Using detailed, empirical evidence, the chapters illustrate how the multi-layered, dynamic nature of identities is realised through linguistic behaviour. Several chapters in the volume focus on contexts in which we might expect to observe a foregrounding of factors involved in the definition and delimitation of self and other: for example, cases in which identities may be disputed, changing, blurred, peripheral, or imposed. Such a focus on complex contexts allows clearer insight into the identity-making and -marking functions of language. The collection approaches these topics from a range of perspectives, with contributions from sociolinguists, sociophoneticians, linguistic anthropologists, clinical linguists and forensic linguists.

Table of Contents

  • PART A: IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE
  • A1. Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological considerations, Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt
  • A2. Identity, John Joseph
  • A3. Locating Identity in Language, Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall
  • A4. Locating Language in Identity, Barbara Johnstone
  • PART B: INDIVIDUALS
  • B1. The role of the individual in language variation and change, Jane Stuart-Smith
  • B2. The identification of the individual through speech, Dominic Watt
  • B3. The ageing voice: changing identity over time, David Bowie
  • B4. Foreign Accent Syndrome - between two worlds, at home in neither, Nick Miller
  • B5. The disguised voice: impersonating accents or speech styles and impersonating individuals, Anders Eriksson
  • PART C: GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES
  • C1.The authentic speaker and the speech community, Nik Coupland
  • C2. Communities of practice and peripherality, Emma Moore
  • C3. Two languages, two identities? the bilingual community, Norma Mendoza-Denton and Dana Osborne
  • C4. Regional variation in ethnic varieties, Erik Thomas and Alicia Beckford Wassink
  • C5. Religion vs. geography: is there a hierarchy? Sue Fox
  • C6. Gender, sexuality and the 'third sex', Kira Hall, Lal Zimman and Jenny Davis
  • C7. Crossing into class: Language, ethnicities & class sensibility in England, Ben Rampton
  • C8. The glass ceiling? a female identity in the workplace, Louise Mullany
  • PART D: REGIONS AND NATIONS
  • D1. Convergence and divergence across a national border, Carmen Llamas
  • D2. Shifting borders and shifting regional identities, Joan Beal
  • D3. Supra-local regional dialect leveling, David Britain
  • D4. Migration, national identity and the reallocation of forms, Judy Dyer
  • D5. An historical national identity? The case of Scots, Robert McColl Millar
  • D6. Post-colonial identities: an African perspective, Tope Omoniyi.

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