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LANGUAGE AND IDENTITIES
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| By: |
Carmen Llamas (Editor), Dr. Dominic Watt (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£115.00 |
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£94.88 |
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£20.12 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0748635769 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780748635764 |
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| Publisher: |
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2009 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Offers new insights into how we use language to construct, maintain and project multi-faceted identities as they emerge in differing contexts. |
| Synopsis: |
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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33 black & white line drawings |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press |
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