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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789681903321

Autore

Block David <1956->

Titolo

Second language identities / / David Block

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Continuum, , 2009

ISBN

1-4742-1234-4

1-283-20620-X

9786613206206

1-4411-5041-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

401.93

Soggetti

Second language acquisition

Identity (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Identity in the social sciences today; 3 Revisiting the past: identity in early second language learning research; 4 Identity in adult migrant contexts; 5 Identity in foreign language contexts; 6 Identity in study abroad contexts; 7 Second language identities: future directions; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralist thought and is associated with the work of authors such as Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Chris Weedon, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall. It then examines how in early SLA research focussing on affective variables, identity was an issue, lurking in the wings but not coming to the surface.  Moving t