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UNINA9910458240203321 |
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Autore |
Llamas Carmen |
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Titolo |
Language and Identities [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-62029-0 |
9786612620294 |
0-7486-3578-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Identity (Psychology) |
Language and languages -- Philosophy |
Sociolinguistics |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Theoretical Issues; 1 Identity; 2 Locating Identity in Language; 3 Locating Language in Identity; Part II Individuals; 4 The Role of the Individual in Language Variation and Change; 5 The Ageing Voice: Changing Identity Over Time; 6 Foreign Accent Syndrome: Between Two Worlds, At Home in Neither; 7 The Identification of the Individual Through Speech; 8 The Disguised Voice: Imitating Accents or Speech Styles and Impersonating Individuals; Part III Groups and Communities |
9 The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community10 Two Languages, Two Identities?; 11 Communities of Practice and Peripherality; 12 Crossing Into Class: Language, Ethnicities and Class Sensibility in England; 13 Ethnicity, Religion and Practices: Adolescents in the East End of London; 14 Variation and Identity in African-American English; 15 Language, Embodiment and the 'Third Sex'; 16 Gendered Identities in the Professional Workplace: Negotiating the Glass Ceiling; Part IV Regions and Nations; 17 Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling |
18 Migration, National Identity and the Reallocation of Forms19 Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities; 20 Convergence and |
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Divergence Across a National Border; 21 Language and Postcolonial Identities:An African Perspective; 22 An Historical National Identity? The Case of Scots; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Language and Identities 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 at different levels - individual, group, regional and national. It brings together over 20 specially commissioned chapters, written by distinguished international scholars, on a range of topics around the language/identity nexus. The collection deals sequentially with identities at various levels, both social and personal. Using detailed, empirical evidence, the chapters illustrate how |
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