Language and Identities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Llamas, Carmen.

Contributor:

Watt, Dominic.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Sociolinguistics.

Local Subjects:

Identity (Psychology).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Theoretical Issues; 1 Identity; 2 Locating Identity in Language; 3 Locating Language in Identity; Part II Individuals; 4 The Role of the Individual in Language Variation and Change; 5 The Ageing Voice: Changing Identity Over Time; 6 Foreign Accent Syndrome: Between Two Worlds, At Home in Neither; 7 The Identification of the Individual Through Speech; 8 The Disguised Voice: Imitating Accents or Speech Styles and Impersonating Individuals; Part III Groups and Communities

9 The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community10 Two Languages, Two Identities?; 11 Communities of Practice and Peripherality; 12 Crossing Into Class: Language, Ethnicities and Class Sensibility in England; 13 Ethnicity, Religion and Practices: Adolescents in the East End of London; 14 Variation and Identity in African-American English; 15 Language, Embodiment and the 'Third Sex'; 16 Gendered Identities in the Professional Workplace: Negotiating the Glass Ceiling; Part IV Regions and Nations; 17 Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling

18 Migration, National Identity and the Reallocation of Forms19 Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities; 20 Convergence and Divergence Across a National Border; 21 Language and Postcolonial Identities:An African Perspective; 22 An Historical National Identity? The Case of Scots; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612620294

9781282620292

1282620290

9780748635788

0748635785

OCLC:

638860053