Language and Identities (Llamas Carmen)(Paperback)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635771); This volume 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. Bringing together the expertise of distinguished international scholars in specially commissioned chapters, the book provides a thematic reader and essential resource for advanced students and researchers in language and identity studies.Leading scholars consider: Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of language and identityIndividual identitiesGroup and community identitiesNational and supra-local regional identitiesDealing sequentially with both social and personal identities at various levels, the chapters use detailed empirical evidence to illustrate
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