Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research examines established and emergent issues within identity research.
This innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendent approach, drawing on a range of social science, humanities and human science disciplines on the way to a detailed consideration of:
the history of identity as a construct
the components of a poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity
the prospect of a Marxist political economy approach to identity
the interrelationship between structure and agency and a model of structuring spheres
an expanded version of positioning theory
the digital universe as the future of identity research.
Leading researcher David Block provides a personal take on this key topic of study in applied linguistics and explains why and how discourse analysis is still a useful means through which we can understand identity today. The book is essential reading for students and academics studying and researching within the area of language and identity.
| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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1 Revisiting identity: A short, selective history |
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2 Key elements in the poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity |
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20 | (22) |
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3 Towards a Marxist approach to identity: From recognition and redistribution debates to a historical materialist view of being in the world |
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42 | (21) |
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4 From structure and agency to structuring spheres |
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63 | (19) |
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5 Expanding positioning theory |
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82 | (16) |
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6 Applying the expanded model of positioning theory: An example |
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98 | (17) |
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115 | (10) |
| References |
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125 | (16) |
| Index |
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David Block is Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced Studies) (ICREA) Research Professor in Sociolinguistics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has published books, articles and chapters on a variety of topics, adopting in recent years a Marxist perspective in his analysis of contemporary social phenomena. He is co-editor (with Sarah Khan) of The Secret Life of English-Medium Instruction (Routledge, 2021).
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