Us and others : social identities across languages, discourses and cultures / edited by Anna Duszak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duszak, Anna.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 98.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 98.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Group identity--Cross-cultural studies.

Sociolinguistics.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (530 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 2002.

Summary:

It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us) and out-group members (Others). What is it that brings people together, or keeps them apart? Ethnicity, nationality, professional expertise or life style? And, above all, what is the role of language in communicating solidarity and detachment?The papers in this volume look at the various cognitive, social, and linguistic aspects of how social identities are constructed, foregrounded and redefined in interaction. Concepts and methodologies are taken from studies in language variation and change, multilingualism, conversation analysis, genre analysis, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, as well as translation studies and applied linguistics. A wide range of languages is brought into focus in a variety of situational, social and discursive environments. The book is addressed to scholars and students of linguistics and related areas of social communication studies.

Contents:

Us and Others

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Contents

Us and Others: An introduction

Part I: Discourses in space

Grammar and function of we

Between us and them in Chinese

Viewpoint and in/out-group membership for Japanese

The space in identity

Constructing identities in language learning MOOs

Part II: Discourses in polyphony

Ethnolects as in-group varieties

The construction of identity and group boundaries in Catalan Spanish

Code-switching, code-crossing, and identity construction in a society in transition, South Africa

Part III: Discourses of transition

Words and social identities

Who is 'us' in Russian political discourse

We and They in Polish political discourse

The communicative construction of group relationships

Part IV: Discourses of fear

Identity by way of demarcation - the discourse on the expansion of the European Union in Austria's leading daily papers

Discourse about them

Persecution and identity conflicts

Strategic alignment in the discourse of Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo

Part V: Discourses of challenge

Humour as a discursive boundary marker in social interaction

Complimenting women in Turkish

Identity in service interactions

Part VI: Discourses through suppression

The regime of the other

Ideological binarism in the identities of native and non-native English speakers

Collapse of the us/them structure in persons with brain dysfunctions

List of contributors

Index

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161858

9781282161856

1282161857

9789027297365

9027297363

OCLC:

70769311