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Book Description: Language and Identities broadly surveys current research on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance, and performance of identities at different levels: individual, group, regional, and national. The book brings together over twenthy specially commissioned chapters written by distinguished international scholars on a range of topics concerning the language/identity nexus. The collection deals sequentially with identities at various levels, both social and personal. Based on detailed, empirical evidence, these chapters illustrate how the multi layered, dynamic nature of identities is realized through linguistic behavior. Several chapters focus on contexts in which we expect to observe a foregrounding of factors involved in the definition and delimitation of self and other: for example, cases in which identities may be disputed, changing, blurred, peripheral, or imposed. Such a focus on complex contexts allows clearer insight into the identity making and marking functions of language. The collection approaches these topics from a range of perspectives, with contributions from sociolinguists, sociophoneticians, linguistic anthropologists, clinical linguists, and forensic linguists.

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