Us and others social identities across languages, discourses and cultures

Summary: It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us) and out-group members (Others). What is it that brings people together, or keeps them apart? Ethnicity, nationality, professional expertise or life style? And, above all, what is the role of language in communicating solidarity and detachment?The papers in this volume look at the various cognitive, social, and linguistic aspects of how social identities are constructed, foregrounded and redefined in interaction. Concepts and methodologies are taken from studies in language variation and change, multilingualism, conversation.

Record details

ISBN: 9027251185 (Amsterdam : hd. bd.)
ISBN: 1588112055
ISBN: 9027297363 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789027297365 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 517 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 2002.

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General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Us and Others; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Us and Others: An introduction; Part I: Discourses in space; Grammar and function of we; Between us and them in Chinese; Viewpoint and in/out-group membership for Japanese; The space in identity; Constructing identities in language learning MOOs; Part II: Discourses in polyphony; Ethnolects as in-group varieties; The construction of identity and group boundaries in Catalan Spanish; Code-switching, code-crossing, and identity construction in a society in transition, South Africa; Part III: Discourses of transition.
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.