Language and identity : national, ethnic, religious /
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| Author / Creator: | Joseph, John Earl. |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. |
| Description: | xii, 268 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5277059 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- The identity of identity
- What language has to do with it
- Fundamental types of identity
- Construction and multiplicity
- Other terms used in current research
- Identity as a linguistic phenomenon
- 2. Linguistic Identity and the Functions and Evolution of Language
- Identity and the traditional functions of language
- Identity and the phatic and performative functions
- Does identity constitute a distinctive function of language?
- 'Over-reading': identity and the evolution of language
- Conclusion
- 3. Approaching Identity in Traditional Linguistic Analysis
- Introduction
- Classical and Romantic views of language, nation, culture and the individual
- The nineteenth century and the beginnings of institutional linguistics
- The social in language: Voloshinov vs Saussure
- Jespersen and Sapir
- Firth, Halliday and their legacy
- Later structuralist moves toward linguistic identity: Brown & Gilman, Labov and others
- From 'women's language' to gender identity
- From Network Theory to communities of practice and language ideologies
- 4. Integrating Perspectives from Adjacent Disciplines
- Input from 1950s sociology: Goffman
- Bernstein
- Attitudes and accommodation
- Foucault and Bourdieu on symbolic power
- Social Identity Theory and 'self-categorisation'
- Early attempts to integrate 'social identity' into sociolinguistics
- Communication Theory of Identity
- Essentialism and constructionism
- 5. Language in National Identities
- The nature of national identities
- When did nationalism begin?
- Constructing national identity and language: Dante's De vulgari eloquentia
- Taming and centring the language: Nebrija and Valdes
- Language imagined as a republic: Du Bellay
- Fichte on language and nation
- Renan and the Kedourie-Gellner debate
- Anderson's 'imagined communities' and Billig's 'banal nationalism'
- De-essentialising the role of language: Hobsbawm and Silverstein
- Studies of the construction of particular national-linguistic identities
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Americas
- Australasia and Oceania
- 6. Case Study 1: The New Quasi-Nation of Hong Kong
- Historical background
- The 'myth' of declining English
- Samples of Hong Kong English
- The formal distinctiveness of Hong Kong English
- The status of Hong Kong English
- The functions of Hong Kong English
- Chinese identities
- Constructing colonial identity
- The present and future roles of English
- 7. Language in Ethnic/Racial and Religious/Sectarian Identities
- Ethnic, racial and national identities
- From communities of practice to shared habitus
- The particular power of ethnic/racial identity claims
- Religious/sectarian identities
- Personal names as texts of ethnic and religious identity
- Language spread and identity-levelling
- 8. Case Study 2: Christian and Muslim Identities in Lebanon
- Introduction
- 'What language is spoken in Lebanon?'
- Historical background
- Distribution of languages by religion
- The co-construction of religious and ethnic identity: Maronites and Phoenicians
- Constructing Islamic Arabic uniqueness
- Recent shifts in Lebanese language/identity patterns
- Still more recent developments
- Renan and the 'heritage of memories'
- Linking marginal ethnic identities: Celts and Phoenicians
- Language, abstraction and the identity of Renan
- Maalouf's utopian anti-identity
- Afterword: Identity and the Study of Language
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index