03688nam 22006133u 450 991095781740332120240508001856.09786612620294978128262029212826202909780748635788074863578510.1515/9780748635788(CKB)2560000000011139(EBL)536979(OCoLC)638860053(DE-B1597)614937(DE-B1597)9780748635788(OCoLC)1302163070(MiAaPQ)EBC536979(EXLCZ)99256000000001113920130418d2009|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLanguage and Identities1st ed.Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press20091 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780748635764 0748635769 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 Communities9 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 Levelling18 Migration, National Identity and the Reallocation of Forms19 Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities; 20 Convergence and Divergence Across a National Border; 21 Language and Postcolonial Identities:An African Perspective; 22 An Historical National Identity? The Case of Scots; Bibliography; IndexLanguage 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 howIdentity (Psychology)Language and languages -- PhilosophySociolinguisticsIdentity (Psychology).Language and languages -- Philosophy.Sociolinguistics.306.44Llamas Carmen1786596Watt Dominic716171AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910957817403321Language and Identities4318460UNINA