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Discourse and Identity - Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin, Michael Bamberg

Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521834023 | 2006-07-24 | File type: PDF | 476 pages | 1.19 mb

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 new light on how our social practices can help to shape our identities.

• Includes an accessible general introduction to the most important trends in the sociolinguistic study of identity • Each section has a clear introduction by the editors, which highlight and summarise the common themes and ideas of the chapters • Shows how the most recent tools and concepts in sociolinguistics can be applied to the analysis of discourse and identity

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