Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Us and Others: An introduction 1
4. Part I. Discourses in space
5. Grammar and function of we 31
6. Between us and them in Chinese 51
7. Viewpoint and in/out-group membership in Japanese 69
8. The space of identity 87
9. Constructing identities in language learning MOOs 111
10. Part II. Discourses in polyphony
11. Ethnolects as in-group varieties 133
12. The construction of identity and group boundaries in Catalan Spanish 159
13. Code-switching, code-crossing and identity construction in a society in transition, South Africa 187
14. Part III. Discourses of transition
15. Words and social identities 213
16. Who is ‘us’ in Russian political discourse 233
17. We and They in Polish political discourse 249
18. The communicative construction of group identities: A basic mechanism of social categorization 265
19. Part IV. Discourses of fear
20. Identity by way of demarcation — the discourse on the expansion of the European Union in Austria’s leading daily papers 293
21. Discourse about them : Construction of ethnic identities in Thai print media 321
22. Persecution and identity conflicts 341
23. Strategic alignment in the discourse of Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo 357
24. Part V. Discourses of challenge
25. Humour as a discursive boundary marker in social interaction 377
26. Complimenting women in Turkish 401
27. Identity in service interactions 429
28. Part VI. Discourses through suppression
29. The regime of the Other 449
30. Ideological binarism in the identities of native and non-native English speakers 463
31. The collapse of the us/them structure in persons with brain dysfunctions 481
32. List of contributors 505
33. Index 513