| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 'Since Big Fat Gypsy Weddings [. . .] Now [People] ... Understand More 'Cos of That Programme': Irish Travellers' Identity Between Stigmatisation and Self-Image; 2 The Nice Stasi Man Drove His Trabi to the Nudist Beach: Contesting East German Identity; 3 'They Paint Everyone With the Same Brush but It Just Simply Isn't the Case': Reconstructing and Redefining Homeless Identities; 4 On the Margins: Aboriginal Realities and 'White Man's Research' |
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5 'Racial Laws Turned Our Lives Positively': Agentivity and Chorality in the Identity of a Group of Italian Jewish Witnesses6 Young Motherhood: Is It Really a Case of 'Shattered Lives and Blighted Futures'?; 7 Reordered Narratives and the Changes in Self-Understanding From Addiction to Recovery; 8 History in Waiting: Receiving a Diagnosis of Asperger in Midlife; Afterword; Index |
| Summary |
Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse. This volume explores how people who have a marked status in society - among them Travellers, teenage mothers, homeless people - manage their identity in response to these stereotypes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
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Identity (Psychology)
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Narratives
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Sociolinguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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The self, ego, identity, personality.
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Sociology.
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Social issues & processes.
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Social, group or collective psychology.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Psychology -- Personality.
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Social Science -- Sociology -- General.
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Psychology -- Social Psychology.
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Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General.
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
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Identity (Psychology)
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Sociolinguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Piazza, Roberta, editor
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Fasulo, Alessandra, 1964- editor.
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Andrews, Molly, contributor
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| ISBN |
9781137332813 |
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1137332816 |
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1137332808 |
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9781137332806 |
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