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Publication details [#58657]

Piazza, Roberta. 2014. ‘… might go to Birmingham, Leeds … up round there, Manchester … and then we always come back here …’: The conceptualisation of place among a group of Irish women travellers. Discourse & Society 25 (2) : 263–282.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

community of practice | conceptualization | place deixis | speech community | women's language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis of a group of Irish women travellers in southern England offers the chance for a situated self-identity discourse within a mobilities model. As these women conceptualise place in terms of benefits for their families/community, they frequently idealise locality formulations.