Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity

Siân Preece is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the UCL Institute of Education. She is the author of Posh Talk: Language and Identity in Higher Education (2009) and a co-author of Language, Society and Power, 3rd edn (2011).

"In an extremely rapidly changing field of scholarship, this collection presents the best of an existing paradigm of research while heralding a new one. This volume should incite everyone to fundamental reflection and a ‘no holds barred’ attitude in fresh research." Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, the Netherlands"The key role that language plays in how we are seen by others and how we see ourselves – struggles around identity – has emerged as a major focus of applied linguistics over the last 20 years. This new handbook does a wonderful job of pulling this work together – from its theoretical roots to its contemporary manifestations – into one diverse and readable volume." Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

• ContentsList of figures, tables and boxes List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Language and identity in applied linguistics PART IPerspectives on language and identity 1 Historical perspectives on language and identity 2 Positioning language and identity3 Identity in variationist sociolinguistics 4 Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to identity 5 Language and identity in linguistic ethnography 6 Discursive psychology and the production of identity in language practices 7 Critical discourse analysis and identity PART IICategories and dimensions of identity 8 Language and ethnic identity 9 Language, race and identity 10 Linguistic practices and transnational identities 11 Identity in post-colonial contexts 12 Language and religious identities 13 Language and gender identities 14 Language and non-normative sexual identities 15 Class in language and identity research PART IIIResearching the language and identity relationship:Challenges, issues and puzzles 16 Ethics in language and identity research 17 A linguistic ethnography of identity18 The politics of researcher identities19 Challenges for language and identity researchers in the collection andtranscription of spoken interaction20 Beyond the micro–macro interface in language and identity researchPART IVLanguage and identity case studies 21 Constructing age identity22 The significance of sexual identity to language learning and teaching 23 An identity transformation? Social class, language prejudice and theerasure of multilingual capital in higher education24 Being a language teacher in the content classroom25 Disability identities and category work in institutional practices26 ‘Comes with the territory’27 Language, gender and identities in political life28 Straight-acting: Discursive negotiations of a homomasculine identity 29 Styling and identity in a second language 30 Construction of heritage language and cultural identities31 Minority languages and group identityPART VFuture directions 32 Intersectionality in language and identity research 33 Language and identity in the digital age 34 Language and identity research in online environments35 Exploring neoliberal language, discourses and identities 36 The future of identity research: Impact and new developmentsin sociolinguistics37 Identity in language learning and teachingIndex