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 figuresList of tablesPrefaceBonny NortonAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: language and identity in applied linguisticsSiân Preece Part 1 Perspectives on language and identity Part 2 Categories and dimensions of identity Part 3 Researching the language and identity relationship: challenges, issues and puzzles Part 4 Language and identity case studies Part 5 Future directions

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 figuresList of tablesPrefaceBonny NortonAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: language and identity in applied linguisticsSiân Preece Part 1 Perspectives on language and identity Part 2 Categories and dimensions of identity Part 3 Researching the language and identity relationship: challenges, issues and puzzles Part 4 Language and identity case studies Part 5 Future directions

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 figuresList of tablesPrefaceBonny NortonAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: language and identity in applied linguisticsSiân Preece Part 1 Perspectives on language and identity Part 2 Categories and dimensions of identity Part 3 Researching the language and identity relationship: challenges, issues and puzzles Part 4 Language and identity case studies Part 5 Future directions