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Numerous disciples across the social sciences and the humanities today take language and linguistic processes as fundamental dimensions for the construction, negotiation and representation of identities. Without attempting to provide a comprehensive overview of research on discourse and identity, Discourse and Identity deals with some of the major issues, concepts and approaches characteristic of contemporary studies on discourse and identity. The chapters in this volume explore a wide range of interactional contexts, speech communities and analytical resources. This volume consists of fifteen chapters organized into four parts. In addition to an overview of the volume and a brief summary of each of the chapters in the book, the general introduction reviews current perspec tives regarding the study of discourse and identity. Given that the volume explores these issues in a highly specialized fashion, the overview will be appreciated by non-expert readers. Four major widely accepted approaches to the study of discourse and identity are outlined: Social constructionism, based on theoretical constructs introduced by Berger and Luckmann (1967) or Hall (1996), regards the conception of identities as processes – rather than products – that take shape in the course of specific interactional occasions, in which ‘discursive work’ serves to negotiate the individual with the social. |
