Style and social identities : alternative approaches to linguistic heterogeneity / edited by Peter Auer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. -- Bilingual styles and social identities : introduction to Part 1 / Peter Auer -- Language alternation as a resource for identity negotiations among Dominican American bilinguals / Benjamin Bailey -- Style and stylization in the construction of identities in a card-playing club / Anna De Fina -- Being a "colono" and being "daitsch" in Rio Grande do Sul : language choice and linguistic heterogeneity as a resouce for social categorisation / Peter Auer, Jacinta Arnhold, and Cintia Bueno-Aniola -- Names and identities, or : How to be a hip young Italian migrant in Germany / Christine Bierbach and Gabriele Birken-Silverman -- Socio-cultural identity, communicative style, and their change over time : a case study of a group of German-Turkish girls in Mannheim/Germany / Inken Keim -- Bystanders and the linguistic construction of identity in face-to-back communication / Kathryn A. Woolard Part 2. -- Monolingual styles and social identities : from local to global : introduction to Part 2 / Peter Auer -- Aneurin Bevan, class wars and the styling of political antagonism / Nikolas Coupland -- Identity and positioning in interactive knowledge displays / Grit Liebscher and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain -- Style online : doing hip-hop in the German-speaking Web / Jannis Androutsopoulos Part 3 -- Identity-work through styling and stylization : introduction to Part 3 / Peter Auer -- Playing with the voice of the other : stylized Kanaksprak in conversations among German adolescents / Arnulf Deppermann -- Identity and language construction in an online community : the case of "Ali G" / Mark Sebba -- Positioning in style : men in women's jointly produced stories / Alexandra Georgakopoulou -- Construction of otherness in reported dialogues as a resource for identity work / Susanne Günther -- Humorous stylizaion of "new" women and men and conservative others / Hekga Kotthoff -- Postscript : style and identity in interactional sociolinguistics / John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz.

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Why do languages allow us to say 'the same thing' in so many different ways? One of the answers is that in saying what we want to say, we always position ourselves in social space as well, by speaking differently from relevant other social actors or groups. This volume explores how variability in language is exploited (and maintained) in order to perform this social identity work in interaction. It shows that variable features cluster together in socially meaningful ways when considered as social (communicative) styles linked to social identities.

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