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The Sociolinguistics of Identity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Advances in Sociolinguistics SeriesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441183682
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Sociolinguistics of IdentityDDC classification:
  • 306.44
LOC classification:
  • P40.5.G76 -- S63 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Identity and Sociolinguistic Theory and Methods -- 2. Hierarchy of identities -- 3. Identity in applied linguistics -- 4. Constructing languages, constructing national identities -- Part II: Identity in Micro-sociolinguistics -- 5. English pronunciation and second language speaker identity -- 6. Shifting identities and orientations in a border town -- 7. Regional variation and identity in Sunderland -- Part III: Identity in Macro-Sociolinguistics -- 8. Guernsey French, identity and language endangerment -- 9. Narrative constructions of gender and professional identities -- 10. Masculine identities on an academic writing programme -- 11. Ethnolinguistic identity in a Dutch Islamic primary classroom -- 12. Negotiating identities in a multilingual science class -- 13. Standard Irish English as a marker of Irish identity -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Across the social and behavioural sciences there has been an increased interest in identity as a subject of inquiry. Despite this, there remain questions to which researchers need to find answers and challenges to be made to older paradigms of analysis in order to continue to push the frontiers of knowledge in this research domain. Identity is a problematic concept inasmuch as we recognise it now as non-fixed, non-rigid and always being co-constructed by individuals of themselves, or by people who share certain core values or perceive another group as having such values. This volume re-examines the analytical tools employed in the sociolinguistic research of 'identity' in order to assess their efficiency, establish the roles of language in the identity claims of specific communities of people, and determine the place of identity in a variety of social contexts, including work places and language classrooms. It will be of interest to academics and students working in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and second language learning.
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Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Identity and Sociolinguistic Theory and Methods -- 2. Hierarchy of identities -- 3. Identity in applied linguistics -- 4. Constructing languages, constructing national identities -- Part II: Identity in Micro-sociolinguistics -- 5. English pronunciation and second language speaker identity -- 6. Shifting identities and orientations in a border town -- 7. Regional variation and identity in Sunderland -- Part III: Identity in Macro-Sociolinguistics -- 8. Guernsey French, identity and language endangerment -- 9. Narrative constructions of gender and professional identities -- 10. Masculine identities on an academic writing programme -- 11. Ethnolinguistic identity in a Dutch Islamic primary classroom -- 12. Negotiating identities in a multilingual science class -- 13. Standard Irish English as a marker of Irish identity -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Across the social and behavioural sciences there has been an increased interest in identity as a subject of inquiry. Despite this, there remain questions to which researchers need to find answers and challenges to be made to older paradigms of analysis in order to continue to push the frontiers of knowledge in this research domain. Identity is a problematic concept inasmuch as we recognise it now as non-fixed, non-rigid and always being co-constructed by individuals of themselves, or by people who share certain core values or perceive another group as having such values. This volume re-examines the analytical tools employed in the sociolinguistic research of 'identity' in order to assess their efficiency, establish the roles of language in the identity claims of specific communities of people, and determine the place of identity in a variety of social contexts, including work places and language classrooms. It will be of interest to academics and students working in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and second language learning.

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