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Language and Identities
Dominic (Ed) Watt
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Description for Language and Identities
Paperback. Offers new insights into how we use language to construct, maintain and project multi-faceted identities as they emerge in differing contexts. Editor(s): Llamas, Carmen; Watt, Dr. Dominic. Num Pages: 320 pages, 33 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494. 320 pages, 33 black & white line drawings. Editor(s): Llamas, Carmen; Watt, Dominic. Offers new insights into how we use language to construct, maintain and project multi-faceted identities as they emerge in differing contexts. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CFB. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight: 494.
Language 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 the multi-layered, dynamic nature of identities is realised through linguistic behaviour. Several chapters in the volume focus on ... Read more
Language 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 the multi-layered, dynamic nature of identities is realised through linguistic behaviour. Several chapters in the volume focus on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748635771
SKU
V9780748635771
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About Dominic (Ed) Watt
Carmen Llamas lectures in sociolinguistics at the University of York. She is co-editor (with Dominic Watt) of Language and Identities (2010) and (with Peter Stockwell and Louise Mullany) of The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (2007). Her research deals primarily with phonological variation and change in the North East and the Scottish-English border region. Dominic Watt lectures in Forensic ... Read more
Reviews for Language and Identities
[This volume] has a much wider scope, since it addresses all aspects of identity, not just national identity. While the latter type is touched upon in several chapters, others deal with gender identity, social class, ethnicity, age, forensic linguistics, or language disabilities, such as Foreign Accent Syndrome. In this respect, this collection is unique, for it enables any student of ... Read more