Language and Identity across Modes of Communication / / ed. by Ahmar Mahboob, Dwi Noverini Djenar, Ken Cruickshank.

This edited collection examines how people use a range of different modalities to negotiate, influence, and/or project their own or other people's identities. It brings together linguistic scholars concerned with issues of identity through a study of language use in various types of written tex...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Language and Social Processes [LSP] , 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (355 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Identity and mode as a frame for understanding social meanings
  • Language, identity, and communities of practice
  • The elements of style
  • All these years and still counting: why quantitative methods still appeal
  • Community languages schools: the importance of context in understanding hybrid identities
  • Multiple identities and second language learning in Hong Kong
  • Performing identities in intergenerational conflict talk: a study of a Sicilian- Australian family
  • Identity management, language variation and English language textbooks: focus on Pakistan
  • The Housewife’s Companion: identity construction in a Japanese women’s magazine
  • Uncovering how identities of laobaixing are constructed in China’s most read magazine
  • Style and authorial identity in Indonesian teen literature: a “sociostylistic” approach
  • First person singular: Negotiating identity in academic writing in English
  • Constructing professional identity through Curricula Vitae
  • Unpacking professional identities for Business English students
  • Migrant women, hooliganism, and online social visibility in Chinese personal blogs
  • Performed research for public engagement: Language and identity studies on stage
  • Subject index