Publications

Publication details [#26762]

Ochs, Elinor. 1993. Constructing social identity: A language socialization perspective. Research on Language and Social Interaction 26 (3) : 287–306.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language acquisition | socialization

Place, Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper explores the complex and distant relation between language and social identity and focuses on the construction of social identities of selves and others via verbal performance of certain social acts and verbal display of certain stances, including epistemic and affective attitudes.