The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline

Personal - group - collective

Editors

Birte Bös

Sonja Kleinke

Sandra Mollin

Nuria Hernández

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This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ‘clusivity’ as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human identity, each of which can be thought of as an aggregative abstraction with its own complexities: personal identity, group identity and collective identity. The contributions pay special attention to the interplay between the public and private dimensions of the interactions and audiences, as well as the potential impact of social and technical affordances of different communicative settings and online and offline modes of identity construction. The volume is aimed at all researchers concerned with the complex notion of identity, both in linguistics and in neighbouring disciplines.

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 78] 2018. vii, 271 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.78

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. vii–viii

Introduction: Identity construction in complex discourse contexts

Sonja Kleinke, Nuria Hernández and Birte Bös | pp. 1–12

Part I. Personal identities

Great pretenders: The phenomenon of impersonating (pseudo-)historical personae in medieval blogs, or: Blogging for someone else’s fame?

Monika Kirner-Ludwig | pp. 15–56

Constructing personal identities online: Self-disclosure in popular blogs

Elise Salonen | pp. 57–80

The development of identity in Batman comics

Claudia Enzweiler | pp. 81–106

Part II. Group identities

Code-switching and identity construction in WhatsApp: Evidence from a (digital) community of practice

Michael Wentker | pp. 109–132

Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread

Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen | pp. 133–152

Indeterminate us and them: The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion

Sonja Kleinke and Birte Bös | pp. 153–176

“no prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way”: The interplay between criticism and identity management in the comments sections on newspaper websites

Monika Eller | pp. 177–202

Part III. Collective identities

The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates

Sandra Mollin | pp. 205–226

“And you know, Jeremy, my father came from a very poor background indeed”: Collective identities and the private-public interface in political discourse

Anita Fetzer | pp. 227–248

Nations as persons: Collective identities in conflict

Andreas Musolff | pp. 249–266

Index | pp. 267–272

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