Table of contents
Us and Others: An introduction
Part I. Discourses in space
Grammar and function of we
Between us and them in Chinese: Use of lai (come) and qu (go) in the construction of social identities
Viewpoint and in/out-group membership in Japanese
The space of identity: A cognitivist approach to ‘outsider’ discourses
Constructing identities in language learning MOOs: A conversational perspective
Part II. Discourses in polyphony
Ethnolects as in-group varieties
The construction of identity and group boundaries in Catalan Spanish
Code-switching, code-crossing and identity construction in a society in transition, South Africa
Part III. Discourses of transition
Words and social identities
Who is ‘us’ in Russian political discourse
We and They in Polish political discourse: A psychological approach
The communicative construction of group identities: A basic mechanism of social categorization
Part IV. Discourses of fear
Identity by way of demarcation — the discourse on the expansion of the European Union in
Austria’s leading daily papers
Discourse about them: Construction of ethnic identities in Thai print media
Persecution and identity conflicts: The case of German Jews
Strategic alignment in the discourse of Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
Part V. Discourses of challenge
Humour as a discursive boundary marker in social interaction
Complimenting women in Turkish: Gender identity and otherness
Identity in service interactions: The situated affiliation to social groupings
Part VI. Discourses through suppression
The regime of the Other: ‘us’ and ‘them’ in translation
Ideological binarism in the identities of native and non-native English speakers
The collapse of the us/them structure in persons with brain dysfunctions: A neuropsychological and neurolinguistic perspective
List of contributors
Index
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