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Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture.
"Language is integral to the construction of personal, socio-cultural and socio-political identities. Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture closely investigates the relationship between language and identities, offering a comprehensive yet progressive view of how linguistics relates to develo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustration; Acknowledgements; Part One Language and Identity: A Theoretical Perspective; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Meaning: From Inner Structure to Post-structure; Introduction; Historical philosophical accounts of language-identity; Chomsky's Cartesian linguistics; Universal Grammar; Social constructivism: language as a social phenomenon; An ideological view of language: notions of discourse; The structuralism of Saussure; Saussure's formation of meaning through difference; Structuralist implications for identity.
- Post-structural identitiesPost-structural implications for identity; Deconstruction; Conclusion; References; 3 Discourse Formation; Syntagmatic and associative relations in words; The location of meaning; Dialogism, heteroglossia and ideology; Ideological discourse; Heteroglossia and discourse colonization; Symbolic capital in language and discourse; Foucault's perspective on discourse; Implications for identity; Discourse analysis, text and ideology; Conclusion; References; Part Two Urban Discourses.
- 4 DFLs versus Locals: Discursive Conflict on Social Media and the Battle for Regional Identity Introduction; Geographical and historical context; Analysis of â#x80;#x98;Every Day Is Like Sunday; Aims and structure; Paratext features: title, quotations, photographs; Constructions within the text; The two major narratives in the text; Binary of the two cultures; An unwitting gentrification discourse; A colonialist discourse; Reactive discourses; Conclusion; References; 5 Youth Identities: Media Discourse in the Formation of Youth Identity; Introduction.
- Unravelling what is meant by identity Media and the construction of identity; The small-scale study; A discussion of the findings; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part Three Marginalized Discourse; 6 Language-Culture: Marginalization or Opportunity in Cameroon's Official;State Bilingualism; Introduction; Cameroon: history and politics; Cameroon's Indigenous languages; Official state bilingualism: French and English; French speaking Cameroon: francophonism; English speaking Cameroon: anglophonism; The bridging language: Cameroon Pidgin English.
- The bilingual-multilingual culture: opportunity or marginalization?Conclusion and implications for national identity; References; 7 Refugee Communities: The Disappearance of Voice and Impact on Care and Identity; Introduction; Historical context of refugee migration into the United Kingdom; Refugees identities: dehumanization and rehumanization; Case studies: public spaces and voicelessness; Refugee voice, refugee care and refugee rights: worlds apart; Conclusion; References; 8 Subalternity, Language and Projects of Emancipation: An Analysis of Dalit Literature; Introduction; Dalit literature.