Us and Others
Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures
Editor
| University of Warsaw
It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us) and out-group members (Others). What is it that brings people together, or keeps them apart? Ethnicity, nationality, professional expertise or life style? And, above all, what is the role of language in communicating solidarity and detachment?
The papers in this volume look at the various cognitive, social, and linguistic aspects of how social identities are constructed, foregrounded and redefined in interaction. Concepts and methodologies are taken from studies in language variation and change, multilingualism, conversation analysis, genre analysis, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, as well as translation studies and applied linguistics. A wide range of languages is brought into focus in a variety of situational, social and discursive environments. The book is addressed to scholars and students of linguistics and related areas of social communication studies.
The papers in this volume look at the various cognitive, social, and linguistic aspects of how social identities are constructed, foregrounded and redefined in interaction. Concepts and methodologies are taken from studies in language variation and change, multilingualism, conversation analysis, genre analysis, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, as well as translation studies and applied linguistics. A wide range of languages is brought into focus in a variety of situational, social and discursive environments. The book is addressed to scholars and students of linguistics and related areas of social communication studies.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 98] 2002. viii, 522 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Us and Others: An introductionAnna Duszak | pp. 1–28
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Part I. Discourses in space
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Grammar and function of weJohannes Helmbrecht | pp. 31–49
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Between us and them in Chinese: Use of lai (come) and qu (go) in the construction of social identitiesMinglang Zhou | pp. 51–67
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Viewpoint and in/out-group membership in JapaneseSoichi Kozai | pp. 69–86
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The space of identity: A cognitivist approach to ‘outsider’ discoursesMelinda Yuen-ching Chen | pp. 87–109
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Constructing identities in language learning MOOs: A conversational perspectiveBirgit Apfelbaum | pp. 111–130
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Part II. Discourses in polyphony
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Ethnolects as in-group varietiesMichael Clyne, Edina Eisikovits and Laura Tollfree | pp. 133–157
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The construction of identity and group boundaries in Catalan SpanishCarsten Sinner | pp. 159–185
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Code-switching, code-crossing and identity construction in a society in transition, South AfricaNkonko M. Kamwangamalu | pp. 187–210
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Part III. Discourses of transition
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Words and social identitiesAnna Duszak | pp. 213–231
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Who is ‘us’ in Russian political discourseRiitta Pyykkö | pp. 233–248
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We and They in Polish political discourse: A psychological approachKrystyna Skarżyńska | pp. 249–264
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The communicative construction of group identities: A basic mechanism of social categorizationHeiko Hausendorf and Wolfgang Kesselheim | pp. 265–289
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Part IV. Discourses of fear
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Identity by way of demarcation — the discourse on the expansion of the European Union in Austria’s leading daily papersAngelika Brechelmacher | pp. 293–320
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Discourse about them: Construction of ethnic identities in Thai print mediaKrisadawan Hongladarom | pp. 321–339
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Persecution and identity conflicts: The case of German JewsMonika S. Schmid | pp. 341–356
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Strategic alignment in the discourse of Las Madres de la Plaza de MayoLisa Wagner | pp. 357–374
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Part V. Discourses of challenge
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Humour as a discursive boundary marker in social interactionJanet Holmes and Meredith Marra | pp. 377–400
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Complimenting women in Turkish: Gender identity and othernessŞükriye Ruhi | pp. 401–427
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Identity in service interactions: The situated affiliation to social groupingsLiliana Cabral Bastos | pp. 429–446
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Part VI. Discourses through suppression
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The regime of the Other: ‘us’ and ‘them’ in translationElżbieta Tabakowska | pp. 449–461
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Ideological binarism in the identities of native and non-native English speakersP. Bhaskaran Nayar | pp. 463–479
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The collapse of the us/them structure in persons with brain dysfunctions: A neuropsychological and neurolinguistic perspectiveMaria Pachalska and Bruce D. MacQueen | pp. 481–503
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List of contributors | pp. 505–511
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Index | pp. 513–517
“With its well-argued discussions, mostly supported by empirical research, Duszak's Us and Others deserves a place on the shelves of all sociolinguists and other social scientists interested in identity research.”
Lütfiye Oktar, in Journal of Sociolinguistics Vol. 8:3 (2004)
“This excellent book will be a valuable resource for academics and other people interested in the processes involved in the construction of individual and group identities, in the linguistic 'clues' to underlying ideological categorizations, or in the consequences of 'us/you/them' divisions and revisions. I believe that it would be appropriately placed not only in academic libraries but also in those that serve the general public.”
Kay McCormick, University of Cape Town, South Africa, in Language in Society, Vol. 34 (2005)
“This collection provides an original and welcome take on an important area within discourse studies, as well as cultural studies and anthropology generally.”
David Golumbia, University of Virginia, in Language Vol. 81:4 (2006)
“The strength of the book lies in the variety of insights into the problem it takes up. The twenty-two papers offer different approaches related to social inclusion and exclusion and exemplify them with different kinds of data taken from social and linguistic contexts.”
Olga Kozlowska, University of Wolverhampton, UK, in Multilingua Vol. 23 (2004)
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