Style and Social Identities : Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity.
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 i...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008
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| Series: | Language, Power & Social Process, v. 18.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Introduction to Part 1; Chapter 2. Language alternation as a resource for identity negotiations among Dominican American bilinguals; Chapter 3. Style and stylization in the construction of identities in a card-playing club; Chapter 4 Being a 'colono' and being 'daitsch' in Rio Grande do Sul: Language choice and linguistic heterogeneity as a resource for social categorisation; Chapter 5. Names and identities, or: How to be a hip young Italian migrant in Germany.
- Chapter 6. Socio-cultural identity, communicative style, and their change over time: A case study of a group of German-Turkish girls in Mannheim/GermanyChapter 7. Bystanders and the linguistic construction of identity in face-to-back communication; Introduction to Part 2; Chapter 8. Aneurin Bevan, class wars and the styling of political antagonism; Chapter 9. Identity and positioning in interactive knowledge displays; Chapter 10. Style online: Doing hip-hop on the German-speaking Web; Introdu.
