Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 2. Positioning through address practice in Finland-Swedish and Sweden-Swedish service encounters 19
5. Chapter 3. Sociocultural and linguistic constraints in address choice from Latin to Italian 51
6. Chapter 4. Closeness at a distance 81
7. Chapter 5. Beyond the notion of periphery 105
8. Chapter 6. Metacommenting in English and French 127
9. Chapter 7. Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French 155
10. Chapter 8. Positioning of self in interaction 177
11. Chapter 9. Constellation of indexicalities and social meaning 197
12. Chapter 10. “Proper is whatever people make it” 219
13. Chapter 11. Representations of self and other in narratives of return migration 241
14. Chapter 12. Orthography as an identity marker 263
15. Chapter 13. Positioning the self in talk about groups 285
16. Author index 307
17. Subject index 313