Language and Identities.
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| Author / Creator: | Llamas, Carmen. |
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| Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10370094 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Theoretical Issues; 1 Identity; 2 Locating Identity in Language; 3 Locating Language in Identity; Part II Individuals; 4 The Role of the Individual in Language Variation and Change; 5 The Ageing Voice: Changing Identity Over Time; 6 Foreign Accent Syndrome: Between Two Worlds, At Home in Neither; 7 The Identification of the Individual Through Speech; 8 The Disguised Voice: Imitating Accents or Speech Styles and Impersonating Individuals; Part III Groups and Communities
- 9 The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community10 Two Languages, Two Identities?; 11 Communities of Practice and Peripherality; 12 Crossing Into Class: Language, Ethnicities and Class Sensibility in England; 13 Ethnicity, Religion and Practices: Adolescents in the East End of London; 14 Variation and Identity in African-American English; 15 Language, Embodiment and the 'Third Sex'; 16 Gendered Identities in the Professional Workplace: Negotiating the Glass Ceiling; Part IV Regions and Nations; 17 Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling
- 18 Migration, National Identity and the Reallocation of Forms19 Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities; 20 Convergence and Divergence Across a National Border; 21 Language and Postcolonial Identities:An African Perspective; 22 An Historical National Identity? The Case of Scots; Bibliography; Index