Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-40445-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

Reihe: Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics

Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research examines established and emergent issues within identity research.

This innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendent approach, drawing on a range of social science, humanities and human science disciplines on the way to a detailed consideration of:

- the history of identity as a construct

- the components of a poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity

- the prospect of a Marxist political economy approach to identity

- the interrelationship between structure and agency and a model of structuring spheres

- an expanded version of positioning theory

- the digital universe as the future of identity research.

Leading researcher David Block provides a personal take on this key topic of study in applied linguistics and explains why and how discourse analysis is still a useful means through which we can understand identity today. The book is essential reading for students and academics studying and researching within the area of language and identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Block, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1 Revisiting identity: A short, selective history

2 Key elements in the poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity

3 Towards a Marxist approach to identity: From recognition and redistribution debates to a historical materialist view of being in the world

4 From structure and agency to structuring spheres

5 Expanding positioning theory

6 Applying the expanded model of positioning theory: An example

7 Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Block is Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced Studies) (ICREA) Research Professor in Sociolinguistics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has published books, articles and chapters on a variety of topics, adopting in recent years a Marxist perspective in his analysis of contemporary social phenomena. He is co-editor (with Sarah Khan) of The Secret Life of English-Medium Instruction (Routledge, 2021).