Language and Identity An Introduction

Name: Language and Identity An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780521696029

ISBN-10: 052169602X

ISBN-13: 9780521696029

Edition: 2009

Authors: John Edwards

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Book details

List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




Introduction



An introductory note



Chapters and topics



A concluding note



Identity, the individual and the group



Introduction



Identity: personal and social



The construction and maintenance of groupness



Language and circumstance



Identifying ourselves



Personal names



Names for groups



The appropriation of names and narratives



Cultural voices and scholarly research



Ethnocentrism and relativism



Language, dialect and identity



Language



Dialect



Dialect and identity: beyond standard and nonstandard



The 'logic' of dialect



Ebonics



Further work on dialect evaluation



Language, religion and identity



Introduction



Linking language and religion



God's language - and ours



Modern times



Missionaries



Language, gender and identity



Introduction



Stereotyping sex and gender



Gender variations in speech



Concluding remarks



Ethnicity and nationalism



Introduction



Ethnic identity



Nationalism



Assessments of nationalism



Civic nationalism



Evaluating nationalism



Language and nationalism



The basic link



Language purism and prescriptivism



Language planning and language ecology



Language planning



The ecology of language



The consequences of Babel



Bilmgualisrn and identity


Glossary


Notes


References


Index