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Discourse and identity / edited by Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin, Michael Bamberg.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
De Fina, Anna, editor.
Schiffrin, Deborah, editor.
Bamberg, Michael G. W., 1947- editor.
Series:
Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 23.
Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 23
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Discourse analysis--Social aspects.
Discourse analysis.
Identity (Psychology).
Sociolinguistics.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 462 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Other Title:
Discourse & Identity
Place of Publication:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to explore discourse in a range of social contexts. By applying a variety of analytical tools and concepts, the contributors show how we build images of ourselves through language, how society moulds us into different categories, and how we negotiate our membership of those categories. Drawing on numerous interactional settings (the workplace; medical interviews; education), in a variety of genres (narrative; conversation; interviews), and amongst different communities (immigrants; patients; adolescents; teachers), this revealing volume sheds light on how our social practices can help to shape our identities.
Contents:
Narrative and identity / Elliot Mishler
Footing, positioning, voice / Branca Telles Ribeiro
Small and large identities in narrative (inter)action / Alexandra Georgakopoulou
From linguistic reference to social reality / Deborah Schiffrin
Identity a la cart / Robin Lakoff
Workplace narratives, professional identity and relational practice / Janet Holmes
Identity and personal/institutional relations / Liliana Cabral Bastos and Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira
The discursive construction of teacher identities in a research interview / Greer C. Johnson
Becoming a mother after DES / Susan E. Bell
Hegemonic identity-making in narrative / Scott Kiesling
On being white, heterosexual and male in a Brazilian school / Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes
Urban fathers positioning themselves through narrative / Stanton Wortham and Vivian Gadsden
Group identity, narrative and self-representations / Anna De Fina
Performing self, family and community in Moroccan narratives of migration and settlement / Mike Baynham
Making it personal / Brian Schiff and Chaim Noy.
Notes:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-139-81014-6
1-107-16099-5
0-511-58445-8
0-511-28199-4
0-511-28080-7
1-107-31820-3
0-511-28122-6
0-511-27996-5
1-299-39892-8
0-511-28161-7
OCLC:
776966684

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