1. Identity

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Tables and Figures viii
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Theoretical Issues
8. 1. Identity 9
9. 2. Locating Identity in Language 18
10. 3. Locating Language in Identity 29
11. Part II. Individuals
12. 4. The Role of the Individual in Language Variation and Change 39
13. 5. The Ageing Voice: Changing Identity Over Time 55
14. 6. Foreign Accent Syndrome: Between Two Worlds, At Home in Neither 67
15. 7. The Identification of the Individual Through Speech 76
16. 8. The Disguised Voice: Imitating Accents or Speech Styles and Impersonating Individuals 86
17. Part III. Groups and Communities
18. 9. The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community 99
19. 10. Two Languages, Two Identities? 113
20. 11. Communities of Practice and Peripherality 123
21. 12. Crossing Into Class: Language, Ethnicities and Class Sensibility in England 134
22. 13. Ethnicity, Religion and Practices: Adolescents in the East End of London 144
23. 14. Variation and Identity in African-American English 157
24. 15. Language, Embodiment and the ‘Third Sex’ 166
25. 16. Gendered Identities in the Professional Workplace: Negotiating the Glass Ceiling 179
26. Part IV. Regions and Nations
27. 17. Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling 193
28. 18. Migration, National Identity and the Reallocation of Forms 205
29. 19. Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities 217
30. 20. Convergence and Divergence Across a National Border 227
31. 21. Language and Postcolonial Identities: An African Perspective 237
32. 22. An Historical National Identity? The Case of Scots 247
33. Bibliography 257
34. Index 301