The Sociolinguistics of Identity.

Across the social and behavioural sciences there has been an increased interest in identity as a subject of inquiry. Despite this, there remain questions to which researchers need to find answers and challenges to be made to older paradigms of analysis in order to continue to push the frontiers of k...

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Main Author: Omoniyi, Tope
Other Authors: White, Goodith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006
Series:Advances in sociolinguistics.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; Part I: Identity and Sociolinguistic Theory and Methods; 2. Hierarchy of identities; 3. Identity in applied linguistics; 4. Constructing languages, constructing national identities; Part II: Identity in Micro-sociolinguistics; 5. English pronunciation and second language speaker identity; 6. Shifting identities and orientations in a border town; 7. Regional variation and identity in Sunderland; Part III: Identity in Macro-Sociolinguistics; 8. Guernsey French, identity and language endangerment.
  • 9. Narrative constructions of gender and professional identities10. Masculine identities on an academic writing programme; 11. Ethnolinguistic identity in a Dutch Islamic primary classroom; 12. Negotiating identities in a multilingual science class; 13. Standard Irish English as a marker of Irish identity; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.