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Language and identity: past concerns, future directions
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“Identity” as an operating variable and/or explanatory concept continues to pervade sociolinguistic scholarship. This article reflects on and discusses the continuing dominance of post-structural and social constructionist accounts of identity and debates whether recent work has led to an “unrestrained embracing of speaker agency” (Bell 2017: 592) with a comparative neglect of social structure, or whether this work is contributing to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between local meaning-making practices and macro-socio(linguistic) processes, and thereby challenging extant binaries in sociolinguistics, in particular: the treatment of stability versus fluidity, agency versus structure and the traditional dichotomy between micro- and macro-sociolinguistics. Reflecting on historical developments and recent trends, it outlines the significant contribution of theoretical models and empirical studies to sociolinguistics, whilst noting obvious gaps, e.g. insufficient studies of the Global South. It is argued that recent work is contributing to a sociolinguistics which foregrounds and problematises the concept of “context” and the contingency of difference and belonging. The paper also argues that recent identity scholarship opens up opportunities for cross-disciplinary projects, drawing on the combined expertise of sociolinguistics, cognitive sociologists and psycholinguists to explain inter alia such phenomena as fluidity and variation in speaker/community attitudes and practices.
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Cultures & Applied Linguistics (from 2021); Languages
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URL: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/47996/ https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/47996/1/47996.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/soci/html?lang=en
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The representation of Islam and Islamic culture in realist and magical realist contemporary literature: a cultural critique of Western representation of Islam
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The Ainu in documentary films: promiscuous iconography and the absent image
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Current challenges of language policy and planning for international organisations
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Academic texts in motion: a text history study of co-authorship interactions in writing
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Helping EAL academics navigate asymmetrical power relations in co-authorship: research-based materials for ERPP workshops
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Defining ‘Normal’: methodological issues in Aphasia and intelligence research
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Research on emotions in second language acquisition: reflections on its birth and unexpected growth
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The militant historian: the concept of history in the work of Alain Badiou
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The presence of an absence: framing capital in Mercado de futuros (Mercedes Álvarez, 2011), La mano invisible (David Macián, 2016) and Cerca de tu casa (Eduard Cortés, 2016)
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