EAN: 9783631616024

IDENTITY THROUGH A LANGUAGE LENS GEBUNDEN

«This collection of articles is a sociolinguistic response to the recent explosion of scholarly
interest in issues of identity. Identity is central to all human beings as we are all concerned
with how to conceive of ourselves  present ourselves and comprehend our relationships with
others. The book tackles the problem of how personal identity is made visible and intelligible
to others through language  and how this may be constrained. Part One  Emblematic identities 
focuses on the construction of self-definitions based on various forms of group identities 
including national and ethnic ones. Part Two  Multicultural Identities  looks at negotiation of
identities in multicultural contexts involving relations of power  drawing on examples from
Europe and the Americas. Finally  Part Three  Emergent Identities  collects empirical studies
based on a close reading of texts in which identities are being articulated and negotiated.»
(Hanna Pulaczewska  University of Regensburg)

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