Language and identities
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Language and identities
Edinburgh University Press, c2010
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  Toyama
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  Nagano
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  Okinawa
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-300) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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