Language and Identities /

Language and Identities / / Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt.

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635771);This volume 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. Bringing together the expertise of distingui...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
Llamas, Carmen,
Watt, Dominic,
MitwirkendeR:
Beal, Joan,
Beckford Wassink, Alicia,
Bowie, David,
Britain, David,
Bucholtz, Mary,
Coupland, Nikolas,
Dyer, Judy,
Eriksson, Anders,
Fox, Sue,
Hall, Kira,
Johnstone, Barbara,
Llamas, Carmen,
McColl Millar, Robert,
Mendoza-Denton, Norma,
Miller, Nick,
Moore, Emma,
Mullany, Louise,
Omoniyi, Tope,
Osborne, Dana,
Rampton, Ben,
Stuart-Smith, Jane,
Thomas, Erik R.,
Timmins, Claire,
Watt, Dominic,
Zimman, Lal,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 33 B/W line art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Community
  • 10. 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 Forms
  • 19. 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

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