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Discourse and Identity Formation

Author : Lamya Alkooheji
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265011
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Identity Formation written by Lamya Alkooheji and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010 to comprehend how parliamentary discourse contributes towards identity formation within Bahraini society. Within the framework of critical discourse studies, the book traces the ideological struggle over power in the linguistic content of legislative discourse through a range of discursive strategies and devices. The authors contend that the discursive choices across the political spectrum in the legislative debates reflected strong sectarian characteristics which contained in it the seeds of political unrest of 2011, the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ of Bahrain. Parliamentary rhetoric and its resonance in the public sphere, the authors argue, revealed the underlying contradictions in Bahraini society. The book highlights the significance of legislative discourse as a platform of social cohesion, and its instability being symptomatic of contradictions within society.

Discourse and Identity

Author : Anna De Fina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107320607
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Identity written by Anna De Fina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to explore discourse in a range of social contexts. By applying a variety of analytical tools and concepts, the contributors show how we build images of ourselves through language, how society moulds us into different categories, and how we negotiate our membership of those categories. Drawing on numerous interactional settings (the workplace; medical interviews; education), in a variety of genres (narrative; conversation; interviews), and amongst different communities (immigrants; patients; adolescents; teachers), this revealing volume sheds light on how our social practices can help to shape our identities.

Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities

Author : Jannis K. Androutsopoulos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296650
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities written by Jannis K. Androutsopoulos and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out to foreground the issues of youth identity in the context of current sociolinguistic and discourse research on identity construction. Based on detailed empirical analyses, the twelve chapters offer examinations of how youth identities from late childhood up to early twenties are locally constructed in text and talk. The settings and types of social organization investigated range from private letters to graffiti, from peer group talk to video clips, from schoolyard to prison. Comparably, a wide range of languages is brought into focus, including Danish, German, Greek, Japanese, and Turkish. Drawing on various discourse analytic paradigms (e.g. Critical Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis), the contributions examine and question notions with currency in the field, such as young people's linguistic creativity and resistance to mainstream norms. At the same time, they demonstrate the embeddedness of constructions of youth identities in local activities and communities of practice where they interact with other social identities and factors, in particular gender and ethnicity.

Discourse, Resistance and Identity Formation

Author : Jerome Satterthwaite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858567334
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Discourse, Resistance and Identity Formation written by Jerome Satterthwaite and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at academics & students working at all levels of education & for policy-makers & managers, this book examines identity formation. It argues that teachers & learners are pressed to conform their professional identity to a model imposed by distant policy makers who have wholly different concerns.

Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse

Author : Michael G. W. Bamberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027226495
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse by : Michael G. W. Bamberg

Download or read book Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse written by Michael G. W. Bamberg and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations, one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics, a second that is ethnomethodologically informed, and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research. All three share a commitment to view self and identity not as essential properties of the person but as constituted in discursive practices and particularly in narrative. Moreover, since self and identity are held to be phenomena that are contextually and continually generated, they are defined and viewed in the plural, as selves and identities. In the attempt of moving closer toward a process-oriented approach to the formation of selves and identities, this volume sets the stage for future discussions of the role of narrative and discourse in this generation process and for how a close analysis of these processes can advance an understanding of the world around us and within this world, of identities and selves.

Identity Trouble

Author : C. Caldas-Coulthard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230593321
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Identity Trouble written by C. Caldas-Coulthard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured.

Teacher Identity Discourses

Author : Janet Alsup
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135600120
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Teacher Identity Discourses written by Janet Alsup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Janet Alsup reports and theorizes a multi-layered study of teacher identity development. The study, which followed six pre-service English education students, was designed to investigate her hypothesis that forming (or failing to form) a professional identity is central in the process of becoming an effective teacher. This work addresses the intersection of various types of discourse within the process of professional identity development, emphasizes that the intersection of the personal and professional in teacher identity formation is more complex than is acknowledged in typical methods classes, and accents the need for teacher educators to take steps to facilitate such integration. Specific suggestions for methods courses are presented that teacher educators can use as is or adapt to their own contexts. Teacher Identity Discourses: Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces speaks eloquently to faculty, researchers, and graduate students across the field of teacher education.

The Discourse of Culture and Identity in National and Transnational Contexts

Author : Christopher J. Jenks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131745037X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Discourse of Culture and Identity in National and Transnational Contexts written by Christopher J. Jenks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions explore how the formation of culture and identity is shaped by national and transnational issues, such as migration, immigration, technology, and language policy. The collection contributes to a better understanding of the process of intercultural communication research, as each author takes a different theoretical or methodological approach to examining discourse. Although different aspects of discourse are analyzed in this collection, each contribution examines issues and concepts that are central to understanding and carrying out intercultural communication research (e.g., structure and agency, static and dynamic cultural constructs, sociolinguistic scales, power and discourse, othering and alienness, native and non-native). This book was originally published as a special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication.

Discourse and Lifespan Identity

Author : Nikolas Coupland
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Lifespan Identity written by Nikolas Coupland and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-09-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book sculpts a new direction for sociolinguistics inasmuch as it incorporates lifespan studies. . . .into the realm of language and context. It makes us realize that our senses of "who we are" is a conglomerate of several different dimensions: temporal, social, linguistic." --Studies in Second Language Acquisition "The editors of this volume have successfully put together a group of articles which address the role of language in creating our developing self, by attempting to answer how our identity is achieved across the lifespan through the use of language in relationships. --Language in Society "The volume's strengths include clear illustration of the role of discourse in constituting self, especially with regard to aging; evidence overturning the hegemony of rigid 'life-stage/cycle' models for understanding lifespan development; and presentation of innovative methods for lifespan research. . . . The volume offers insightful contributions to discourse studies of the lifespan." --Discourse & Society "This is a fascinating book in the Sage Language and Language Behavior series. . . . Although it is written primarily for researchers and theoreticians in sociology and linguistics, there is application to child and adult development, gerontology, oral history, and even family systems theory. . . . This introduction to lifespan sociolinguistics is both clear and compelling." --Clinical Gerontologist How are social development, maturation, aging, stability, and change reflected in human interaction and in social contexts? How, where, and when does age surface as a theme in everyday talk? What social rituals endorse our accepted views of "coming of age," "turning forty," "entering retirement," or generally "acting our age"? What can language achieve for us? A multidisciplinary cast of contributors answers such questions through empirical studies and theoretical interpretations. Provocative and accessibly written, this volume explores discursive practices in which age-related identities are formulated, challenged, or consolidated. From mother-daughter relationships to marital communication, Discourse and Lifespan Identity takes a dynamic view of lifespan development in today's culture. Discourse and Lifespan Identity offers valuable information to students and professionals of interpersonal communication, speech communication, social psychology, developmental psychology, aging, and sociology.

European Identities in Discourse

Author : Franco Zappettini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350042994
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book European Identities in Discourse written by Franco Zappettini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on empirical research, this book closely analyses how European identities are discursively produced. It focuses on discourse from members of a civic association active in promoting democracy and attempting participation in the transnational public sphere. Unlike previous books that have addressed the question of European identity from top-down stances or through methodological nationalism, this book engages with the multifaceted concept of transnationalism as a key to the negotiation of 'glocal' identities. Applying a discourse historical approach (DHA) through a transnational reading, it shows how grassroots actors/speakers construct their different cultural and political affiliations as both world and European citizens. They negotiate institutional identities and historical discourses of nationhood through new forms of mobility, cultural diversity and the imagination of Europe as a proxy for a cosmopolitan civil society. These discourses are ever more important in a fractured and polarised Europe falling prey to contrary discourses of nationhood and ethnic solidarity. Highlighting how transnational narratives of solidarity and the de-territorialisation of civic participation can impact on the (re)imagination of the European community beyond tropes like 'Fortress Europe' or intragovernmental politics, this important book shows how identification processes must be read through historical and global as well as localised contexts.

Mistaken Identity

Author : Asad Haider
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786637383
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Mistaken Identity written by Asad Haider and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock, Asad Haider turns to the rich legacies of the black freedom struggle. Drawing on the words and deeds of black revolutionary theorists, he argues that identity politics is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts to the neutralization of its movements. It marks a retreat from the crucial passage of identity to solidarity, and from individual recognition to the collective struggle against an oppressive social structure. Weaving together autobiographical reflection, historical analysis, theoretical exegesis, and protest reportage, Mistaken Identity is a passionate call for a new practice of politics beyond colorblind chauvinism and “the ideology of race.”

Discursive Construction of National Identity

Author : Ruth Wodak
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748637354
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Discursive Construction of National Identity written by Ruth Wodak and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we construct national identities in discourse? Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand, and differences to other national collectives on the other hand? The Discursive Construction of National Identity analyses discourses of national identity in Europe with particular attention to Austria.In the tradition of critical discourse analysis, the authors analyse current and on-going transformations in the self-and other definition of national identities using an innovative interdisciplinary approach which combines discourse-historical theory and methodology and political science perspectives. Thus, the rhetorical promotion of national identification and the discursive construction and reproduction of national difference on public, semi-public and semi-private levels within a nation state are analysed in much detail and illustrated with a huge amount of examples taken from many genres (speeches, focus-groups, interviews, media, and so forth). In addition to the critical discourse analysis of multiple genres accompanying various commemorative and celebratory events in 1995, this extended and revised edition is able to draw comparisons with similar events in 2005. The impact of socio-political changes in Austria and in the European Union is also made transparent in the attempts of constructing hegemonic national identities.

Representations and Othering in Discourse

Author : Beyza Ç. Tekin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287880
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Representations and Othering in Discourse written by Beyza Ç. Tekin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the construction of Turkey's possible European Union accession in French political discourse. In today's France, heated debates regarding Turkey's EU membership are turning into an essential part of European identity formation. Once again, the 'Turkish Other' functions as a mirror for defining not only the 'European Self', but also European values. By providing a genuine and multi-disciplinary approach for studying the Otherness attributed to Turkey, this book contributes to our understanding of the Self/Other nexus in International Relations. Within a Critical Discourse Analysis framework, this study explores the socio-historical basis of the construction of Turkey's Otherness in an attempt to identify the processes through which past memories, representations, images and fantasies regarding Turkey are inserted into the French social imaginary. Focusing on these significations, which are (re)produced and become manifest through language, this book strives to uncover the link between discourse and political action.

Identity in Narrative

Author : Anna De Fina
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729612X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Identity in Narrative written by Anna De Fina and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the author examines and illustrates the multiple threads that connect the local expression and negotiation of identity to the wider social contexts that frame the experience of migration, from material conditions of life in the United States to mainstream discourses about race and color. The analysis reveals how identities emerge in discourse through the interplay of different levels of expression, from implicit adherence to narrative styles and ways of telling, to explicit negotiation of membership categories.

Identity Matters

Author : Donna LeCourt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791485277
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Identity Matters written by Donna LeCourt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity Matters explores the question that consistently plagues composition teachers: why do their pedagogies so often fail? Donna LeCourt suggests that the answer may lie with the very identities, values, and modes of expression higher education cultivates. In a book that does precisely what it theorizes, LeCourt analyzes student-written literacy autobiographies to examine how students interact with and challenge cultural theories of identity. This analysis demonstrates that writing instruction does, indeed, matter and has a significant influence on how students imagine their potential in both academic and cultural realms. LeCourt paints not only a compelling and vexing picture of how students interact with academic discourse as both mind and body, but also offers hope for a reconceived pedagogy of social-material writing practice.

Discourse and Psychology

Author : Saumya Sharma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000691535
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Psychology written by Saumya Sharma and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unique understanding of the interdependence between language and psychology and how one’s speech is shaped by and in turn shapes one’s thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. Drawing on the tenets of discourse analysis and psychology, it presents a comprehensive guide to a new and burgeoning area in linguistics and critical theory. The volume focusses on individual and group behaviour to show how identity formation is as much dependent on the psychological state as on social surroundings and context. It introduces various concepts from the sociocognitive framework, discursive and critical psychology, highlighting the myriad ways of approaching the complex interface between text, sociocultural factors, and cognitive processes. An indispensable guide to the complex world of language and the unconscious, the volume will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology and behavioural science, language, and critical theory. It is also a must-read for the general reader interested in language, communication, and social intelligence.

Discourse and Identity

Author : Lonnie Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Identity written by Lonnie Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discourse shapes the way that we are able to know both others and our self. It can present options for shaping our identity we may not otherwise have experienced or know about. When we focus on becoming a singular subject position rather than a complex human being we limit the possibility to move fluidly among many different subject positions. In the process we normalize an ideal version of being that discounts alternative possibilities and treats identity as a static category. One grand scale Discourse in society today provides American society, in particular, with a fixed notion of how to 'be' an athlete. By employing an autoethnographic approach, I weave together my own narratives to demonstrate the inherent limitations that athletes face, and the real effects of this dominant Discourse each individual athlete must face. I use these stories to further evoke an understanding of how alternative discourses of athlete can create new possibilities for imagining who, what, an 'athlete' can be. By evoking the power of stories through bricolage, I show how alternative discourses can successfully resist fixed idealized subject positions like athlete. By highlighting the problematic effects faced by athletes over their lifespan, I hope to encourage this in attempt to disrupt the way we think about identity formation and invite individuals to reimagine what they do or accomplish. How we are able to create and foster such spaces can create new possibilities for negotiating individual identity in more fluid ways across all types of subject positions."--Boise State University ScholarWorks.