Identity Community Discourse

Author : Giuseppina Cortese
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039106325
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity, Community, Discourse written by Giuseppina Cortese and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages are inseparable from their contexts of use. They are not only congruent with, but also involved in the configuration of the worldviews and value systems manifested in cultures and embodied in texts. The spread of English worldwide foregrounds the issue of textual dynamics in intercultural settings. The production/reception of texts in English facilitates international contacts and exchanges, yet it also triggers hegemonic practices. The volume aims to investigate the representations and negotiations of sociocognitive identities in intercultural settings relevant for 'good practice'. Contributions explore 'languaging' strategies (verbal, visual, multimodal; English monolingual, bilingual, multilingual) through a range of methodological perspectives wherein the respect for sociocultural differences is a constitutive value.

Author : Anna De Fina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107320607
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Identity written by Anna De Fina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to explore discourse in a range of social contexts. By applying a variety of analytical tools and concepts, the contributors show how we build images of ourselves through language, how society moulds us into different categories, and how we negotiate our membership of those categories. Drawing on numerous interactional settings (the workplace; medical interviews; education), in a variety of genres (narrative; conversation; interviews), and amongst different communities (immigrants; patients; adolescents; teachers), this revealing volume sheds light on how our social practices can help to shape our identities.

Author : Jannis K. Androutsopoulos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296650
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities written by Jannis K. Androutsopoulos and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out to foreground the issues of youth identity in the context of current sociolinguistic and discourse research on identity construction. Based on detailed empirical analyses, the twelve chapters offer examinations of how youth identities from late childhood up to early twenties are locally constructed in text and talk. The settings and types of social organization investigated range from private letters to graffiti, from peer group talk to video clips, from schoolyard to prison. Comparably, a wide range of languages is brought into focus, including Danish, German, Greek, Japanese, and Turkish. Drawing on various discourse analytic paradigms (e.g. Critical Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis), the contributions examine and question notions with currency in the field, such as young people's linguistic creativity and resistance to mainstream norms. At the same time, they demonstrate the embeddedness of constructions of youth identities in local activities and communities of practice where they interact with other social identities and factors, in particular gender and ethnicity.

Author : Ken Hyland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521192218
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disciplinary Identities written by Ken Hyland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Hyland draws on a number of sources to explore how authors convey aspects of their identities within the constraints placed upon them by their disciplines' rhetorical conventions. He promotes corpus methods as important tools in identity research.

Author : Giuliana Garzone
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034304948
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse, Identities and Roles in Specialized Communication written by Giuliana Garzone and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies presented in this volume focus on two distinct but related areas of specialized communication professional and academic settings, resting on an anti-essentialist notion of identity as a phenomenon that emerges from the dialectic between individual and society. The authors start from a detailed analysis of discourse practices as evidenced in texts, their production and the professional performance patterns which underlie such practices, and explore the way the actors, roles and identities are constructed in language and discourse. In particular, by highlighting discursive attitudes and aptitudes, they underscore the need to understand discourse in light of norms of professional responsibility, showing that not only do professionals and academics use discourse to create self-identity, but they also use identity constructed through discourse to influence society.

Author : Bethan Benwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6Q/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Identity written by Bethan Benwell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory-level study of discourse and identity across a variety of contexts.

Author : Roberta Piazza
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351183362
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourses of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces written by Roberta Piazza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine linguistic and social phenomena in places shaped by displacement and social inequality. The book also looks at chronotopes, the Bakhtinian-inspired concept of the interconnectedness of time and space in identity. The volume demonstrates how studying liminal places and spaces can offer unique insights into how people construct language and selfhood in these spaces, making this key reading for researchers in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, geography, and linguistic anthropology.

Author : John J. Gumperz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521288972
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Social Identity written by John J. Gumperz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Western society there are now strong pressures for social and racial integration but, in spite of these, recent experience has shown that greater intergroup contact can actually reinforce social distinctions and ethnic stereotypes. The studies collected here examine, from a broad sociological perspective, the sorts of face-to-face verbal exchange that are characteristic of industrial societies, and the volume as a whole pointedly demonstrates the role played by communicative phenomena in establishing and reinforcing social identity. The method of analysis that has been adopted enables the authors to reveal and examine a centrally important but hitherto little discussed conversational mechanism: the subconscious processes of inference that result from situational factors, social presuppositions and discourse conventions. The theory of conversation and the method of analysis that inform the author's approach are discussed in the first two chapters, and the case studies themselves examine interviews, counselling sessions and similar formal exchanges involving contacts between a wide range of different speakers: South Asians, West Indians and native English speakers in Britain; English natives and Chinese in South-East Asia; Afro-Americans, Asians and native English speakers in the United States; and English and French speakers in Canada. The volume will be of importance to linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others with a professional interest in communication, and its findings will have far-reaching applications in industrial and community relations and in educational practice.

Author : Anna De Fina
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729612X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity in Narrative written by Anna De Fina and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the author examines and illustrates the multiple threads that connect the local expression and negotiation of identity to the wider social contexts that frame the experience of migration, from material conditions of life in the United States to mainstream discourses about race and color. The analysis reveals how identities emerge in discourse through the interplay of different levels of expression, from implicit adherence to narrative styles and ways of telling, to explicit negotiation of membership categories.

Author : Peter Auer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110198509
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Style and Social Identities written by Peter Auer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic variability that takes into account the construction of social identities through the formation of social communicative styles. It shows that style is a useful category in bridging the gap between single parameter variation and social identity. Social positioning, i.e., finding one's place in society, is one of its motivating forces. Various aspects of the expression of stylistic features are focused on, from language choice and linguistic variation in a narrow sense to practices of social categorization, pragmatics patterns, preferences for specific communicative genres, rhetorical practices including prosodic features, and aesthetic choices and preferences for specific forms of taste (looks, clothes, music, etc.). These various features of expression are connected to multimodal stylistic indices through talk; thus, styles emerge from discourse. Styles are adapted to changing contexts, and develop in the course of social processes. The analytical perspective chosen proposes an alternative to current approaches to variability under the influence of the so-called variationist paradigm.