Discourse and Identity

by Bethan Benwell and Elizabeth Stokoe

Book Overview

'Identity' is a central organizing feature of our social world. Across the social sciences and humanities, it is increasingly treated as something that is actively and publicly accomplished in discourse. This book defines identity in its broadest sense, in terms of how people display who they are to each other. Each chapter examines a different discursive environment in which people do 'identity work' everyday conversation, institutional settings,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748617507
• ISBN13: 9780748617500
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"