Positioning the Self and Others
Linguistic perspectives
Editors
Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction, less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s). This volume focusses on address terms, pragmatic markers, code switching/choice and orthography, the indexicalities of which are explored in different communicative activities.
The volume is unusual in: i) the range of languages which are covered: Bergamasco, Brazilian Portuguese, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Swedish; ii) the inclusion of different communicative settings and text-types: workplace emails, everyday and institutional conversations, interviews, migrant narratives, radio phone-ins, dyadic and group settings, road-signs, service encounters; iii) its consideration of both synchronic and diachronic factors; iv) its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches.
The volume illustrates some of the linguistic means speakers draw on to position themselves and others and hopes to stimulate further research studies in this vein.
The volume is unusual in: i) the range of languages which are covered: Bergamasco, Brazilian Portuguese, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Swedish; ii) the inclusion of different communicative settings and text-types: workplace emails, everyday and institutional conversations, interviews, migrant narratives, radio phone-ins, dyadic and group settings, road-signs, service encounters; iii) its consideration of both synchronic and diachronic factors; iv) its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches.
The volume illustrates some of the linguistic means speakers draw on to position themselves and others and hopes to stimulate further research studies in this vein.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 292] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. IntroductionKate Beeching, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli | pp. 1–18
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Chapter 2. Positioning through address practice in Finland-Swedish and Sweden-Swedish service encountersCatrin Norrby, Camilla Wide, Jenny Nilsson and Jan Lindström | pp. 19–49
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Chapter 3. Sociocultural and linguistic constraints in address choice from Latin to ItalianPiera Molinelli | pp. 51–79
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Chapter 4. Closeness at a distance: Positioning in Brazilian workplace emailsCarolin Debray and Sophie Reissner-Roubicek | pp. 81–104
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Chapter 5. Beyond the notion of periphery : An account of polyfunctional discourse markers within the Val.Es.Co. model of discourse segmentationShima Salameh Jiménez, Maria Estellés Arguedas and Salvador Pons Bordería | pp. 105–125
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Chapter 6. Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approachKate Beeching | pp. 127–153
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Chapter 7. Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris FrenchMaria Secova | pp. 155–175
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Chapter 8. Positioning of self in interaction: Adolescents’ use of attention-gettersKarin Aijmer | pp. 177–195
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Chapter 9. Constellation of indexicalities and social meaning: The evolution of cioè in Contemporary ItalianChiara Ghezzi | pp. 197–218
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Chapter 10. “Proper is whatever people make it”: Stance, positionality, and ideological packaging in a dinnertime conversationMary-Caitlyn Valentinsson | pp. 219–239
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Chapter 11. Representations of self and other in narratives of return migrationAlexander Nikolaou and Jennifer Sclafani | pp. 241–262
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Chapter 12. Orthography as an identity marker: The case of bilingual road signs in the province of BergamoFederica Guerini | pp. 263–283
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Chapter 13. Positioning the self in talk about group: Linguistic means emphasising veracity used by members of the Georgian Greek communityConcha Maria Höfler | pp. 285–305
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Author index
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Subject index
“In Positioning the Self and Others, Beeching, Ghezzi and Molinelli bring into conversation a dozen substantial, well-designed projects about the linguistic indexing of positioning, subjectivity and identity. Authors take detailed looks at a wide variety of linguistic variables, from choices about what pronouns to use to choices about what language to use. I enthusiastically recommend this collection of state-of-the-art research.”
Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University
“With its wide scope and range of theoretical and methodological perspectives on positioning, and its coverage of a great variety of languages as well as geographical and situational settings and contexts, the book ''Positioning the Self and Others'' provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the current state of research on its topic and pivotal concept.”
Barbara Soukup, Austrian Academy of Sciences, on Linguist List 30.1679 (17 April 2019)
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics