LINGUIST List 22.2081 Sun May 15 2011 Books: Anthro Ling/Language Acquisition/Discourse Analysis: Du Bois Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Thomas Trumm , Discursive Constructions of Immigrant Identity: Du Bois Message 1: Discursive Constructions of Immigrant Identity: Du Bois Date: 13-May-2011 From: Thomas Trumm <t.trummpeterlang.com> Subject: Discursive Constructions of Immigrant Identity: Du Bois E-mail this message to a friend Title: Discursive Constructions of Immigrant Identity Subtitle: A Sociolinguistic Trend Study on Long-Term American Immigrants Published: 2011 Publisher: Peter Lang AG                 http://www.peterlang.com Book URL: http://www.peterlang.de/?261275 Author: Inke C Du Bois Hardback: ISBN: 9783631612750 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 57.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783631612750 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 33.50 Hardback: ISBN: 9783631612750 Pages: 232 Price: Europe EURO 39.80 Abstract: In which way can language be an indicator for cultural identity in immigration contexts? How are collective identity, social networks and the use of the inclusive pronoun 'we' connected? Does code-switching in additive bilingualism and first language attrition indicate a loss of home cultural identity? Designed as a longitudinal trend study, this book answers such complex questions as it investigates data collected from interviews with thirty U.S. Americans who immigrated to Germany between 1963 and 2001. On the one hand, in-depth discourse analyses take the discursive construction of identity within the sociopolitical context of Germany into account. Narrative structures, person and place deictics and code-switching are indexical for cultural identity. On the other hand, socio-demographic factors such as age at arrival, length of residence, social networks and education are relevant for the identification of the Americans and their linguistic choices. Qualitative and quantitative methods are applied and result in a synthesis of in-depth linguistic analyses and general trends of language change within in the cohort. Contents: Narrative construction of identity - Indexicality: deictics, place references and identity - Socio-pragmatic functions of identity - Demographic factors, language attrition and code-switching - Life span identity. Inke Du Bois studied English and Spanish linguistics at the Universities of Kiel (Germany), Barcelona (Spain) and San Francisco (USA). She received her Master's degree in English Linguistics from San Francisco State University and her Doctorate degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hamburg. She has taught a wide range of classes related to English linguistics and intercultural communication in California and in Germany. She worked as a visiting professor for English linguistics at the University of Vechta and currently holds a position as visiting professor for English linguistics at Bremen University. Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics                             Applied Linguistics                             Discourse Analysis                             Language Acquisition                             Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng)                             German, Standard (deu) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=55666 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. 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