Style and Social Identities: Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity

by Peter Auer and Auer

This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic variability that takes into account the construction of social identities through the formation of social communicative styles. It shows that style is a useful category in bridging the gap between single parameter variation and social identity. Social positioning, i.e., finding one's place in society, is one of its motivating forces.

Various aspects of the expression of stylistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311019080X
• ISBN13: 9783110190809
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 521 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary