LEADER 03606nam 22005773u 450 001 9910818095903321 005 20240508001856.0 010 $a1-282-62029-0 010 $a9786612620294 010 $a0-7486-3578-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748635788 035 $a(CKB)2560000000011139 035 $a(EBL)536979 035 $a(OCoLC)638860053 035 $a(DE-B1597)614937 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748635788 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC536979 035 $a(OCoLC)1302163070 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000011139 100 $a20130418d2009|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLanguage and Identities 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-3576-9 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a9 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 327 $a18 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; Index 330 $aLanguage 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 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) 606 $aLanguage and languages -- Philosophy 606 $aSociolinguistics 615 4$aIdentity (Psychology). 615 4$aLanguage and languages -- Philosophy. 615 4$aSociolinguistics. 676 $a306.44 700 $aLlamas$b Carmen$01635900 701 $aWatt$b Dominic$0716171 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818095903321 996 $aLanguage and Identities$93976907 997 $aUNINA