The discursive construction of identities on- and offline : personal - group - collective /
Bös, Birte,1974-editor.
This volume explores the complexities and challenges of linguistic identity construction across a range of online and offline contexts. Focussing on 'clusivity' as an overarching aspect, its contributions are situated in the social constructivist paradigm and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. Thus, the studies address three major strands of human identity, each of which can be thought of as an aggregative abstraction with its own complexities: personal identity, group identity and collective identity. The contributions pay special attention to the interplay between the public and private dimensions of the interactions and possible audiences, as well as the potential impact of social and technical affordances of different communicative settings and different modes of identity construction online and offline. The volume is particularly aimed at scholars of linguistics, but also of neighbouring disciplines concerned with the complex notion of identity.
This volume explores the complexities and challenges of linguistic identity construction across a range of online and offline contexts. Focussing on 'clusivity' as an overarching aspect, its contributions are situated in the social constructivist paradigm and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. Thus, the studies address three major strands of human identity, each of which can be thought of as an aggregative abstraction with its own complexities: personal identity, group identity and collective identity. The contributions pay special attention to the interplay between the public and private dimensions of the interactions and possible audiences, as well as the potential impact of social and technical affordances of different communicative settings and different modes of identity construction online and offline. The volume is particularly aimed at scholars of linguistics, but also of neighbouring disciplines concerned with the complex notion of identity.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Intro; The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction: Identity construction in complex discourse contexts; 1. Introduction; 2. Recasting sites of identity construction in the digital age; 3. The lens of clusivity; 4. Three strands of identity; 5. The contributions; References; Part I. Personal identities; Great pretenders: The phenomenon of impersonating (pseudo-)historical personae in medieval blogs, or: Blogging for someone else's fame?; 1. Framing the objective
2. Browsing through relevant notions and frameworks3. Blog, what art thou? -- Assessing the surface levels of Chaucer's Blog; 4. Framing the 'pretenders': Medieval aficionados, role-playing metagamers and fun "hunch-backed keepers of a dark culture and age"?; 5. A brief conclusion regarding intentional frame breaks, or: Blogging for one's own fame after all (?); References; Constructing personal identities online: Self-disclosure in popular blogs; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical background and research aims; 3. Material; 4. Analysis; 5. Conclusions; References
The development of identity in Batman comics1. Introduction; 2. Data and methodology; 3. Fictional dialogues and worlds; 4. Reading for character and identity construction in comics; 5. Characters in the DC Batman universe; 6. Conversation analysis and the comics data; 7. From Spoiler to Robin to Batgirl; 8. Conclusion; References; Part II. Group identities; Code-switching and identity construction in WhatsApp: Evidence from a (digital) community of practice; 1. Introduction; 2. Code-switching and group identity: Theoretical dimensions; 3. WhatsApp as a socio-technical mode
4. Analysis of the WhatsApp data5. Questionnaire results and discussion; 6. Conclusion; References; Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread; 1. Introduction; 2. Constructing identity; 3. Material: The Student Room; 4. Identity and metapragmatic acts in the Freshers Week discussion; 5. Discussion and conclusions; References; Indeterminate us and them: The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion; 1. Aims, data and methodology; 2. 'Identity' and 'referentiality' in public online discussions
3. Anaphoric, cataphoric and indeterminate pronoun reference in the sample thread4. Negotiating referential identity -- the we-set and the they-set in indeterminate uses in the sample thread; 5. Constructing complex identities -- predicating expressions and the propositional level; 6. Discussion and conclusions; References; "no prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way": The interplay between criticism and identity management in the comments sections on newspaper websites; 1. Introduction; 2. Data, goals and methodology; 3. The communicative situation
Linguistics.
Language and languages.
Identity (Psychology)
Sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Identity (Psychology)
Language and languages.
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Discursive construction of identities on- and offline.