Languaging Diversity Volume 2: Variationist Approaches and Identities, Volume 2
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The choice of collecting papers concerning the thorny issue of language and diversity is grounded on the idea that individual identities are dynamic and socially negotiated in interaction and discourse, with language choices being true acts of identity (Le Page and Tabouret-Keller, 1985) by means of which people’s selves are performed and defined. To offer wide yet accurate descriptions of how identities are variously conveyed linguistically, this volume offers a varied approach to diversity, by covering different fields of research, from the investigation of ethnic minorities’ identities to the socio-linguistic and cultural status of Scots, to mention but two examples.
The book consists of nine selected papers dealing with professional, cultural, ethnic and social identities, gender ideologies and national stereotypes built and negotiated in language practices and discourse .In particular, this work tackles a wide set of key topics: the construction and legitimation of ESOL teachers’ identities in their community of practice, multidimensional research on Italian immigrants’ distinctiveness, the negotiation of self in bilingual families, Scottish national belonging and attitudes towards the Scots language, the correlation between sexism and gender categories, and the development of a positive approach to diversity via enhanced critical awareness of culture-bound stereotypes.
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David Britain holds the Chair of Modern English Linguistics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, co-author of Linguistics: An Introduction (2009) (with Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen and Andrew Spencer) and Social Dialectology (2003), and the editor of Language in the British Isles (2007). He also co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language on dialect death in Europe, published in 2009.
