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Title Languaging diversity : identities, genres, discourses / edited by Guiseppe Balirano and Maria Cristina Nisco
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 331 pages)
Contents FOREWORD; PROLOGUE; IN THE NEWS; A MD-CADS ANALYSIS OF 'DIVERSITY'IN BRITISH NEWSPAPERS; LANGUAGING THE RIOTS; IN POLITICS; AT THE INTERSECTION OF CLASS AND RACE; BUILDING ETHNIC INCLUSIVENESSIN A PLURAL SOCIETY; "BLACK MAN RUNNIN'AND IT AIN'T FROM THE POLICE"; CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES; LANGUAGING DIVERSITYIN EU INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE; THE COUNTER-HEGEMONICDISCOURSE OF BIODIVERSITY; "HOW ARE YOU FEELING?", "WHAT'S HAPPENING?"; IDENTITY, DISCOURSE AND TRANSLATION; ACROSS GENERATIONS AND GENDERS; OLD AND YOUNG; THE CONSTRUCTION OF AGE IDENTITYIN AN ONLINE DISCOURSE COMMUNITY
DISCURSIVE SHIFTS AND 'MIS-PREMISING'IN THE REPRESENTATION OF MALEHOMOSEXUALITY IN AVTAND WHAT ABOUT SAME SEX MARRIAGES?A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF LEXICALCHOICES AND SOCIAL ATTITUDES; ETHNICITIES; REPRESENTATION OF ETHNIC IDENTITYOF TATARS THROUGH THE ETHNONYM"TATAR"; A COURSE OF LIFE OR A CURSE FOR LIFE?DISCUSSING THE NAME OF AN ETHNICMINORITY IN ROMANIA; USING DIFFERENCE AS A WEAPON; POPULARISING IDEAS; TED CULTURE AND IDEAS WORTH SPREADING; SPEAKER IDENTITY VS. SPEAKER DIVERSITY; METADISCOURSE DIVERSIFICATIONIN ENGLISH AND ITALIAN SCIENTIFICMAGAZINES
Summary Annotation Languaging Diversity: Identities, Genres, Discourses is a suggestive title for 'another' book in the field of linguistics, but what does it actually mean? By choosing to speak of Languaging Diversity and not just of difference, otherness, varieties, multiplicity, hybridity or alterity, the editors cover the whole range of meanings in the entire field of diversity. They do not wish to limit themselves by using such specific words with increasingly specialised connotations as Alterity or Other, but rather to allow an eclectic range of perspectives and issues to come to the fore. This volume brings together some of the manifold discourses emerging as bearers of the values of alterity, by exploring the thorny relationship between Language and Diversity. Drawing on the crucial assumption that speakers' identities are dynamically negotiated as discourse unfolds, Languaging Diversity explores the wide theme of identity in discourse, an area of investigation which has become increasingly popular in recent years. A key theme in assembling this volume was that the relationship between diversity and identity cannot be alienated from the factual distribution of material resources in society. All contributions in the volume - carefully selected and peer reviewed - at least partially react to such critical scenery in order to explore the topics surrounding the modes in which diversity is linguistically articulated by and in discourse. The various studies deal with how individuals draw on linguistic resources to achieve, maintain or challenge representations pertaining to their cultural, social, ethnic, sexual, gender, professional, or institutional identities. The volume comprises six sections: In the News; In Politics; Constructing Identities; Across Generations and Genders; Ethnicities; and Popularising Ideas. Each section reflects the choice of the various topics through the employment of a variety of methodologies and a variety of theoretical frameworks. As such, this volume is an innovative attempt to challenge the present-day underpinnings of diversity studies
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Subject Language and languages -- Variation.
Language.
Linguistics.
ELT: English for specific purposes.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Language and languages -- Variation
Form Electronic book
Author Balirano, Guiseppe, editor
Nisco, Maria Cristina, editor
ISBN 1443876887
9781443876889
1443871222
9781443871228