Description
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective. Authored by specialists from around the world, each chapter introduces a topic in language and identity studies and provides a concise, critical survey in which the importance and relevance to applied linguists is explained.
Thirty-seven chapters are organised into five sections covering:
- theoretical perspectives informing language and identity studies
- categories and dimensions of identity
- key issues for researchers in language and identity studies
- topical case studies in areas of interest to applied linguistics
- future directions for language and identity studies in applied linguistics.
With further reading included in each chapter, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity is an essential reference for all students, teachers a
Trade Review
"In an extremely rapidly changing field of scholarship, this collection presents the best of an existing paradigm of research while heralding a new one. This volume should incite everyone to fundamental reflection and a ‘no holds barred’ attitude in fresh research." Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
"The key role that language plays in how we are seen by others and how we see ourselves – struggles around identity – has emerged as a major focus of applied linguistics over the last 20 years. This new handbook does a wonderful job of pulling this work together – from its theoretical roots to its contemporary manifestations – into one diverse and readable volume." Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Table of ContentsContents
List of figures, tables and boxes
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Language and identity in applied linguistics
PART I
Perspectives on language and identity
1 Historical perspectives on language and identity
2 Positioning language and identity
3 Identity in variationist sociolinguistics
4 Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to identity
5 Language and identity in linguistic ethnography
6 Discursive psychology and the production of identity in language practices
7 Critical discourse analysis and identity
PART II
Categories and dimensions of identity
8 Language and ethnic identity
9 Language, race and identity
10 Linguistic practices and transnational identities
11 Identity in post-colonial contexts
12 Language and religious identities
13 Language and gender identities
14 Language and non-normative sexual identities
15 Class in language and identity research
PART III
Researching the language and identity relationship:
Challenges, issues and puzzles
16 Ethics in language and identity research
17 A linguistic ethnography of identity
18 The politics of researcher identities
19 Challenges for language and identity researchers in the collection and
transcription of spoken interaction
20 Beyond the micro–macro interface in language and identity research
PART IV
Language and identity case studies
21 Constructing age identity
22 The significance of sexual identity to language learning and teaching
23 An identity transformation? Social class, language prejudice and the
erasure of multilingual capital in higher education
24 Being a language teacher in the content classroom
25 Disability identities and category work in institutional practices
26 ‘Comes with the territory’
27 Language, gender and identities in political life
28 Straight-acting: Discursive negotiations of a homomasculine identity
29 Styling and identity in a second language
30 Construction of heritage language and cultural identities
31 Minority languages and group identity
PART V
Future directions
32 Intersectionality in language and identity research
33 Language and identity in the digital age
34 Language and identity research in online environments
35 Exploring neoliberal language, discourses and identities
36 The future of identity research: Impact and new developments
in sociolinguistics
37 Identity in language learning and teaching
Index
