Language and Identities

Carmen Llamas; Dominic Watt

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2010

Language and Identities

Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748635788

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About this book

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 distinguished international scholars in specially commissioned chapters, the book provides a thematic reader and essential resource for advanced students and researchers in language and identity studies.

Leading scholars consider:

Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of language and identity
Individual identities
Group and community identities
National and supra-local regional identities

Dealing sequentially with both social and personal identities at various levels, the chapters use detailed empirical evidence to illustrate how the multi-layered, dynamic nature of identities is realised through linguistic behaviour. Several chapters in the collection focus on contexts in which a heightened sense of identity might be expected: 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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Tables and Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Theoretical Issues
1. Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Locating Identity in Language Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. Locating Language in Identity Barbara Johnstone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Part II. Individuals
4. The Role of the Individual in Language Variation and Change Jane Stuart-Smith and Claire Timmins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
5. The Ageing Voice: Changing Identity Over Time David Bowie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
6. Foreign Accent Syndrome: Between Two Worlds, At Home in Neither Nick Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
7. The Identification of the Individual Through Speech Dominic Watt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
8. The Disguised Voice: Imitating Accents or Speech Styles and Impersonating Individuals Anders Eriksson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Part III. Groups and Communities
9. The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community Nikolas Coupland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
10. Two Languages, Two Identities? Norma Mendoza-Denton and Dana Osborne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
11. Communities of Practice and Peripherality Emma Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
12. Crossing Into Class: Language, Ethnicities and Class Sensibility in England Ben Rampton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
13. Ethnicity, Religion and Practices: Adolescents in the East End of London Sue Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
14. Variation and Identity in African-American English Erik R. Thomas and Alicia Beckford Wassink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
15. Language, Embodiment and the ‘Third Sex’ Lal Zimman and Kira Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
16. Gendered Identities in the Professional Workplace: Negotiating the Glass Ceiling Louise Mullany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Part IV. Regions and Nations
17. Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling David Britain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
18. Migration, National Identity and the Reallocation of Forms Judy Dyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
19. Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities Joan Beal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
20. Convergence and Divergence Across a National Border Carmen Llamas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
21. Language and Postcolonial Identities: An African Perspective Tope Omoniyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
22. An Historical National Identity? The Case of Scots Robert McColl Millar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 33 B/W line art
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

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Published: January 31, 2010
ISBN: 9780748635788