Language and Identities
Language and Identities broadly surveys current research on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance, and performance of identities at different levels: individual, group, regional, and national. The book brings together over twenthy specially commissioned chapters written by distinguished international scholars on a range of topics concerning the language/identity nexus.\ The collection deals sequentially with identities at various...
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Language and Identities broadly surveys current research on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance, and performance of identities at different levels: individual, group, regional, and national. The book brings together over twenthy specially commissioned chapters written by distinguished international scholars on a range of topics concerning the language/identity nexus. The collection deals sequentially with identities at various levels, both social and personal. Based on detailed, empirical evidence, these chapters illustrate how the multi-layered, dynamic nature of identities is realized through linguistic behavior. Several chapters focus on contexts in which we expect to observe a foregrounding of factors involved in the definition and delimitation of self and other: for example, cases in which identities may be disputed, changing, blurred, peripheral, or imposed. Such a focus on complex contexts allows clearer insight into the identity-making and marking functions of language. The collection approaches these topics from a range of perspectives, with contributions from sociolinguists, sociophoneticians, linguistic anthropologists, clinical linguists, and forensic linguists.
Acknowledgements viiList of Tables and Figures viiiNotes on Contributors xiIntroduction Carmen Llamas Dominic Watt 1Part I Theoretical Issues1 Identity John E.Joseph 92 Locating Identity in Language Mary Bucholtz Kira Hall 183 Locating Language in Identity Barbara Johnstone 29Part II Individuals4 The Role of the Individual in Language Variation and Change Jane Stuart-Smith Claire Timmins 395 The Ageing Voice: Changing Identity Over Time David Bowie 556 Foreign Accent Syndrome: Between Two Worlds, At Home in Neither Nick Miller 677 The Identification of the Individual Through Speech Dominic Watt 768 The Disguised Voice: Imitating Accents or Speech Styles and Impersonating Individuals Anders Eriksson 86Part III Groups and Communities9 The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community Nikolas Coupland 9910 Two Languages, Two Identities? Norma Mendoza-Denton Dana Osborne 11311 Communities of Practice and Peripherally Emma Moore 12312 Crossing into Class; Language, Ethnicities and Class Sensibility in England Ben Rampton 13413 Ethnicity, Religion and Practices: Adolescents in the East End of London Sue Fox 14414 Variation and Identity in African-American English Erik R. Thomas Alicia Beckford Wassink 15715 Language, Embodiment and the 'Third Sex' Lal Zimman Kira Hall 16616 Gendered Identities in the Professional Workplace: Negotiating Glass Ceiling Louise Mullany 179Part IV Regions and Nations17 Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling David Britain 19318 Migration, National Identity and the Reallocation of Forms Judy Dyer 20519 Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities Joan Beal 21720Convergence and Divergence Across a National Border Carmen Llamas 22721 Language and Postcolonial Identities: An African Perspective Tope Omoniyi 23722 An Historical National Identity? The Case of Scots Robert McColl Millar 247Bibliography 257Index 301
\ English World-WideThe book is a valuable contribution to the slowly growing body of works on the identity-marking dimension of language. By providing readers with a strong theoretical grounding on the subject, a wide range of methodological approaches to consider, and a broad range of empirical studies by respected specialists from various fields, this book about language and identity will surely find its way in many libraries, course outlets, reference lists, and citations for years to come.\ — Isabel Penfiaco Martin\ \ \ \ \ \ English World-Wide\ - Isabel Penfiaco Martin\ The book is a valuable contribution to the slowly growing body of works on the identity-marking dimension of language. By providing readers with a strong theoretical grounding on the subject, a wide range of methodological approaches to consider, and a broad range of empirical studies by respected specialists from various fields, this book about language and identity will surely find its way in many libraries, course outlets, reference lists, and citations for years to come.\ \ \
