The discursive construction of identities on- and offline : personal, group, collective / edited by Birte Bös [and three others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bös, Birte, 1974- editor.

Conference Name:

International Symposium on the Linguistic Construction of Personal and Group Identity, Structure, Pragmatics and Cognition (1st : 2013 : Universität Heidelberg)

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 78.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 78

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Language and languages.

Identity (Psychology).

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on 'clusivity' as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human identity, each of which can be thought of as an aggregative abstraction with its own complexities: personal identity, group identity and collective identity. The contributions pay special attention to the interplay between the public and private dimensions of the interactions and audiences, as well as the potential impact of social and technical affordances of different communicative settings and online and offline modes of identity construction. The volume is aimed at all researchers concerned with the complex notion of identity, both in linguistics and in neighbouring disciplines.

Contents:

Introduction: identity construction in complex discourse contexts / Sonja Kleinke, Nuria Hernández and Birte Bös

Personal identities. Great pretenders: the phenomenon of impersonating (pseudo-)historical personae in medieval blogs, or, blogging for someone else's fame / Monika Kirner-Ludwig

Constructing personal identities online: self-disclosure in popular blogs / Elise Salonen

The development of identity in Batman comics / Claudia Enzweiler

Group identities. Code-switching and identity construction in whatsapp: evidence from a (digital) community of practice / Michael Wentker

Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

Indeterminate us and them: the complexities of referentiality identity and group construction in a public online discussion / Sonja Kleinke and Birte Bös

"No prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way": the interplay between criticism and identity management in the comments sections on newspaper websites / Monika Eller

The discursive construction of identities on- and offline. Collective identities.The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates / Sandra Mollin

"And you know, Jeremy, my father came from a very poor background indeed": collective identities and the private-public interface in political discourse / Anita Fetzer

Nations as persons: collective identities in conflict / Andreas Musolff.

Notes:

CC BY-NC

Description based on print version record.

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.78

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access