Language and Identities Paperback / softback
Edited by Carmen Llamas, Dr. Dominic Watt
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 33 black & white line drawings
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/01/2010
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- ISBN:9780748635771
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 33 black & white line drawings
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/01/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780748635771