The Sociolinguistics of Identity

by Omoniyi, Tope; White, Goodith

• ISBN13: 9781847063328
• ISBN10: 1847063322
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Across the social and behavioural sciences there has been an increased interest in identity as a subject of inquiry. Despite this, there remain questions to which researchers need to find answers and challenges to be made to older paradigms of analysis in

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Identity and Sociolinguistic Theory and Methods
Hierarchy of identities	p. 11
Identity in applied linguistics	p. 34
Constructing languages, constructing national identities	p. 50
Identity in Micro-sociolinguistics
English pronunciation and second language speaker identity	p. 75
Shifting identities and orientations in a border town	p. 92
Regional variation and identity in Sunderland	p. 113
Identity in Macro-Sociolinguistics
Guernsey French, identity and language endangerment	p. 131
Narrative constructions of gender and professional identities	p. 157
Masculine identities on an academic writing programme	p. 173
Ethnolinguistic identity in a Dutch Islamic primary classroom	p. 188
Negotiating identities in a multilingual science class	p. 201
Standard Irish English as a marker of Irish identity	p. 217
Index	p. 233
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