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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826707603321

Titolo

Positioning the self and others : linguistic perspectives / / edited by Kate Beeching, Chiara Ghezzi, Piera Molinelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018]

©2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; ; Volume 292

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics

Identity (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Positioning through address practice in Finland-Swedish and Sweden-Swedish service encounters / Catrin Norrby, Camilla Wide, Jenny Nilsson and Jan Lindström -- Sociocultural and linguistic constraints in address choice from Latin to Italian / Piera Molinelli -- Closeness at a distance: Positioning in Brazilian workplace emails / Carolin Debray and Sophie Reissner-Roubicek -- Beyond the notion of periphery: An account of polyfunctional discourse markers within the Val.Es.Co. model of discourse segmentation / Shima Salameh Jiménez, Maria Estellés Arguedas and Salvador Pons Bordería -- Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach / Kate Beeching -- Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French / Maria Secova -- Positioning of self in interaction: Adolescents' use of attention-getters / Karin Aijmer -- Constellation of indexicalities and social meaning: The evolution of cioè in Contemporary Italian / Chiara Ghezzi -- "Proper is whatever people make it": Stance, positionality, and ideological packaging in a dinnertime conversation / Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson -- Representations of self and other in narratives of return migration / Alexander Nikolaou and Jennifer Sclafani -- Orthography as an identity marker: The case of bilingual road signs in the province of Bergamo / Federica Guerini -- Positioning the self in talk about groups: Linguistic



means emphasising veracity used by members of the Georgian Greek community / Concha Maria Höfler.