Discourse and identity
By: edited by Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin, Michael Bamberg.
Contributors: De Fina, Anna.; Schiffrin, Deborah.; Bamberg, Michael G. W., 1947-
Series: Studies in interactional sociolinguistics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780521834025; 9780521541916
Subjects: Discourse analysis -- Social aspects.; Identity (Psychology); Sociolinguistics.
Description: This work uses different approaches to account for the relationship between language, discourse and society. It draws on many settings, in a variety of genres, amongst different communities, to show how we build images of ourselves through language and how society moulds us into categories.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [426]-451) and index.