The language of belonging
By: Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Dariusz Galasinski.
Contributors: Galasiński, Dariusz.
Series: Language and globalization
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Group identity; Sociolinguistics; Language and culture; Group identity -- Germany -- Case studies; Group identity -- Poland -- Case studies; Partition, Territorial -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Case studies; Partition, Territorial -- Social aspects -- Poland -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Addressing one of the most significant aspects of social life in our time - that of cultural identities and identifications - the authors demonstrate ways in which the language we use in everyday life, in our conversations and narratives, constructs and confirms in a continuing, flexible and context-bound way our sense of who we are, where and to whom we belong - or wish to belong. They offer a theoretical reassessment of how we understand, study and analyse processes of multiple and sometimes self-contradictory identification as reflected through the language of belonging and not belonging."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-215) and index.