The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline : Personal - group - collective
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The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline : Personal - group - collective

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The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline : Personal - group - collective

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This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on 'clusivity' as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human identity, each of which can be thought of as an aggregative abstraction with its own complexities: personal identity, group identity and collective identity. The contributions pay special attention to the interplay between the public and private dimensions of the interactions and audiences, as well as the potential impact of social and technical affordances of different communicative settings and online and offline modes of identity construction. The volume is aimed at all researchers concerned with the complex notion of identity, both in linguistics and in neighbouring disciplines.

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Table of contents

  1. The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline
  2. Editorial page
  3. Title page
  4. LCC data
  5. Table of contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction: Identity construction in complex discourse contexts
  8. Part I. Personal identities
  9. Great pretenders: The phenomenon of impersonating (pseudo-)historical personae in medieval blogs, or: Blogging for someone else’s fame?
  10. Constructing personal identities online: Self-disclosure in popular blogs
  11. The development of identity in Batman comics
  12. Part II. Group identities
  13. Code-switching and identity construction in WhatsApp: Evidence from a (digital) community of practice
  14. Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread
  15. Indeterminate us and them: The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion
  16. “no prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way”: The interplay between criticism and identity management in the comments sections on newspaper websites
  17. Part III. Collective identities
  18. The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates
  19. “And you know, Jeremy, my father came from a very poor background indeed”: Collective identities and the private-public interface in political discourse
  20. Nations as persons: Collective identities in conflict
  21. Index