LINGUIST List 13.2438

Wed Sep 25 2002

Books: Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics

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1. paul, Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Duszak (ed)

Title: Us and Others
Subtitle: Social identities across languages, discourses, and cultures
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
			
Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: John Benjamins 
 http://www.benjamins.com/
			
Editor: Anna Duszak 
				
Hardback: ISBN: 1588112055, Pages: viii, 522 pp., Price: USD 122.00

			
Abstract:

It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us)
and out-group members (Others). What is it that brings people
together, or keeps them apart? Ethnicity, nationality, professional
expertise or life style? And, above all, what is the role of language
in communicating solidarity and detachment?

The papers in this volume look at the various cognitive, social, and
linguistic aspects of how social identities are constructed,
foregrounded and redefined in interaction. Concepts and methodologies
are taken from studies in language variation and change,
multilingualism, conversation analysis, genre analyisis,
sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, as well as translation
studies and applied linguistics. A wide range of languages is brough
into focus in a variety of situational, social and discursive
environments. The book is addressed to scholars and students of
linguistics and related areas of social communication studies.

Table of Contents

Us and Others: An introduction 
 Anna Duszak

Part I. Discourses in space 
Grammar and function of we 
 Johannes Helmbrecht
US and THEM in Chinese: Use of lai (come) and qu (go) in the
construction of social identities
 Minglang Zhou
Viewpoint and in/out-group membership in Japanese 
 Soichi Kozai 
The space of identity: A cognitivist approach to 'outsider' discourses 
 Melinda Yuen-ching Chen 
Constructing identities in language learning MOOs --- A conversational
perspective
 Birgit Apfelbaum

Part II. Discourses in polyphony 
Ethnolects as in-group varieties 
 Michael G. Clyne, Edina Eisikovits and Laura Tollfree
The construction of identity and group boundaries in Catalan Spanish 
 Carsten Sinner
Code-switching, code-crossing and identity construction in a society
in transition, South Africa
 Nkonko Kamwangamalu 

Part III. Discourses of transition 
Words and social identities 
 Anna Duszak
Who is 'we' in Russian political discourse 
 Riitta Pyykk� 
WE and THEY in Polish political discourse: A psychological approach 
 Krystyna Skarzynska
The communicative construction of group identities: A basic mechanism
of social categorization
 Heiko Hausendorf and Wolfgang Kesselheim

Part IV.Discourses of fear 
Identity by way of demarcation --- the discourse on the expansion of
the European Union in Austria's leading daily papers
 Angelika Brechelmacher
Discourse about them: Construction of ethnic identities in Thai print media 
 Krisadawan Hongladarom
Persecution and identity conXicts --- the case of German Jews 
 Monika S. Schmid
Strategic alignment in the discourse of Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo 
 Lisa Wagner

Part V. Discourses of challenge 
Humour as a discursive boundary marker in social interaction 
 Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra
Complimenting women in Turkish: Gender identity and otherness 
 S�kriye Ruhi
Identity in service interactions: The situated affiliation to social
groupings
 Liliana Cabral Bastos

Part VI. Discourses through suppression 
The regime of the Other: 'us' and 'them' in translation 
 Elzbieta Tabakowska
Ideological binarism in the identities of native and non-native
English speakers
 Bhaskaran Nayar
The collapse of the us/them structure in persons with brain
dysfunctions: a neuropsychological and neurolinguistic perspective
 Maria Pachalska and Bruce D. MacQueen
List of contributors 
Index

Lingfield(s): Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)