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The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective
Edited by Birte Bös, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 78] 2018
► pp. 1–12

Introduction

Identity construction in complex discourse contexts

| University of Heidelberg and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
| University of Heidelberg and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
| University of Heidelberg and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Recasting sites of identity construction in the digital age
  • 3.The lens of clusivity
  • 4.Three strands of identity
  • 5.The contributions
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 23 July 2018
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