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The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline
Personal - group - collective
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Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ‘clusivity’ as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human identity, each of which can be thought of as an aggregative abstraction with its own complexities: personal identity, group identity and collective identity. The contributions pay special attention to the interplay between the public and private dimensions of the interactions and audiences, as well as the potential impact of social and technical affordances of different communicative settings and online and offline modes of identity construction. The volume is aimed at all researchers concerned with the complex notion of identity, both in linguistics and in neighbouring disciplines.
Topics
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Prelim pages
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Table of contents
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Preface
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Introduction
1 - Part I. Personal identities
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Great pretenders
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Constructing personal identities online
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The development of identity in Batman comics
81 - Part II. Group identities
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Code-switching and identity construction in WhatsApp
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Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread
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Indeterminate us and them : The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion
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“no prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way”
177 - Part III. Collective identities
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The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates
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“And you know, Jeremy, my father came from a very poor background indeed”
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Nations as persons
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Index
267
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 9, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789027264022
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
271
This book is in the series
eBook ISBN:
9789027264022
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
