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The central focus of the book is the identification of the ways
people engage in communicative encounters to (re)constitute
personal and social identities. Its aim is to identify some
principal themes that have emerged from the ample research on
identity in a variety of contexts. A common thread of the articles
is the role of language in the construction and performance of
identities. It embraces an exploration of the sociocultural
environments in which human communication takes place, the
interplay between these environments, and the construction and
display of identities through our communicative performances.
Research located in a range of literary, sociological,
psychological and linguistic perspectives is used to illustrate the
potential of communication in establishing a sense of identity.
The book brings to the fore the issue of collective identity and
analyzes it from the linguistic perspective. Addressing the
problem, the authors demonstrate ways in which the language we use
in everyday life enables us to construct and perform in a flexible
and context-bound manner the sense of our belonging in a community.
They offer some rich data and present strong arguments in favor of
qualitative methodologies for research in the field. Drawing on
numerous interactional settings, and amongst different communities,
the contributors shed new light on how our language practices and
non-verbal behaviors mold our collective identities.
This book is a collection of articles covering the theme of
interaction. Interaction combines two crucial elements: the
intrapersonal and the interpersonal. Accordingly, the authors
approach this issue from two complementary perspectives: from the
internal and external or cognitive and social perspective. The
papers that take the former perspective focus on cognitive bases of
interaction, on the representation of motion, on metaphor and
metonymy, or gestures, perception and cognition. The topic that
dominates the papers that take the social stance towards the topic
of interaction is identity. By applying a variety of new analytical
tools and concepts, the authors show how we build images of
ourselves through language, how society and institutions mould us
into different categories, and how we negotiate our membership of
these categories.
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