Language and Identity across Modes of Communication
1st Edition
Published on 10. March 2015
XII, 355 pages
978-1-61451-359-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 texts, conversation, performance, and interviews.
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Persons
Dwi Noverini Djenar, University of Sydney; Ahmar Mahboob, University of Sydney; Ken Cruickshank, University of Sydney.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of 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
