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Discourse and identity, edited by Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin, Michael Bamberg

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Discourse and identity

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edited by Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin, Michael Bamberg

Studies in interactional sociolinguistics, 23Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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.--, Provided by publisher

Narrative and identity / Elliot Mishler -- Footing, positioning, voice / Branca Telles Ribeiro -- Small and large identities in narrative (inter)action / Alexandra Georgakopoulou -- From linguistic reference to social reality / Deborah Schiffrin -- Identity a la cart / Robin Lakoff -- Workplace narratives, professional identity and relational practice / Janet Holmes -- Identity and personal/institutional relations / Liliana Cabral Bastos and Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira -- The discursive construction of teacher identities in a research interview / Greer C. Johnson -- Becoming a mother after DES / Susan E. Bell -- Hegemonic identity-making in narrative / Scott Kiesling -- On being white, heterosexual and male in a Brazilian school / Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes -- Urban fathers positioning themselves through narrative / Stanton Wortham and Vivian Gadsden -- Group identity, narrative and self-representations / Anna De Fina -- Performing self, family and community in Moroccan narratives of migration and settlement / Mike Baynham -- Making it personal / Brian Schiff and Chaim Noy

Discourse & Identity