文档介绍：Discourse and Identity
The relationship between language, discourse and identity has
always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In 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 new
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 -
munities (immigrants; patients; adolescents; teachers), this reveal-
ing volume sheds new light on how our social practices can help to
shape our identities.
ANNA DE FINA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Italian
at etown University. She has worked and published articles
on political discourse, discourse markers, language contact, narra-
tive, and identity. Her publications include Identity in Narrative:
An Analysis of Immigrant Discourse (2003) and Dislocations, Relo-
cations, Narratives of Displacement (edited with Mike Baynham,
2005).
DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN is Professor of Linguistics at etown
University. Her research interests include grammar, meaning, inter-
action, and Holocaust discourse. Among her published works are
Discourse Markers (Cambridge University Press, 1987), Handbook
of Discourse Analysis (2001), and In Other Words: Variation in
Reference and Narative (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
MICHAEL BAMBERG is Professor of Psychology at Clark Univer-
sity. His research interests are in narrative and narrative methods;
language and