Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Personal identities
6. Great pretenders 15
7. Constructing personal identities online 57
8. The development of identity in Batman comics 81
9. Part II. Group identities
10. Code-switching and identity construction in WhatsApp 109
11. Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread 133
12. Indeterminate us and them : The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion 153
13. “no prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way” 177
14. Part III. Collective identities
15. The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates 205
16. “And you know, Jeremy, my father came from a very poor background indeed” 227
17. Nations as persons 249
18. Index 267