The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective. Forty-one chapters are organised into five sections covering: theoretical perspectives informing language and identity studies key issues for researchers doing language and identity studies categories and dimensions of identity identity in language learning contexts and among language learners future directions for language and identity studies in applied linguistics Written by specialists from around the world, each chapter will introduce a topic in language and identity studies, provide a concise and critical survey, in which the importance and relevance to applied linguists is explained and include further reading. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity is an essential purchase for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and TESOL. Advisory board: David Block (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats/ Universitat de Lleida, Spain); John Joseph (University of Edinburgh);Bonny Norton (University of British Colombia, Canada).

Contents List of figures List of tables Preface Bonny Norton Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: language and identity in applied linguistics Siân Preece Part 1 Perspectives on language and identity 1 Historical perspectives on language and identity John E. Joseph 2 Positioning language and identity: poststructuralist perspectives Judith Baxter 3 Identity in variationist sociolinguistics Rob Drummond and Erik Schleef 4 Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to identity Bethan Benwell and Elizabeth Stokoe 5 Language and identity in linguistic ethnography Miguel Pérez-Milans 6 Discursive psychology and the production of identity in language practices Jean McAvoy 7 Critical Discourse Analysis and identity Karin Zotzmann and John P. O’Regan Part 2 Categories and dimensions of identity 8 Language and ethnic identity Vally Lytra 9 Language, race and identity Tope Omoniyi 10 Linguistic practices and transnational identities Anna De Fina 11 Identity in post-colonial contexts Priti Sandhu and Christina Higgins 12 Language and religious identities Ana Souza 13 Language and gender identities Lucy Jones 14 Language and non normative sexual identities John Gray 15 Class in language and identity research David Block Part 3 Researching the language and identity relationship: challenges, issues and puzzles 16 Ethics in language and identity research Anna Kristina Hultgren, Elizabeth J. Erling and Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury 17 A linguistic ethnography of identity: adopting a heteroglossic frame Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge 18 The politics of researcher identities: opportunities and challenges in identities research Frances Giampapa 19 Challenges for language and identity researchers in the collection and transcription of spoken interaction Eva Duran Eppler and Eva Codó 20 Beyond the micro-macro interface in language and identity research Kristine Horner and John Bellamy Part 4 Language and identity case studies 21 Constructing age identity: the case of Mexican EFL learners Patricia Andrew 22 The significance of sexual identity to language learning and teaching Cynthia D. Nelson 23 An identity transformation? Social class, language prejudice and the erasure of multilingual capital in higher education Siân Preece 24 Being a language teacher in the content classroom: teacher identity and content and language integrated learning (CLIL) Tom Morton 25 Disability identities and category work in institutional practices: the case of a ‘typical ADHD girl’ Eva Hjörne and Ann-Carita Evaldsson 26 ‘Comes with the territory’: expert-novice and insider-outsider identities in police interviews Frances Rock 27 Language, gender and identities in political life: a case study from Malaysia Louise Mullany and Melissa Yoong 28 Straight acting: discursive negotiations of a homomasculine identity Tommaso M. Milani 29 Styling and identity in a second language Ben Rampton 30 Construction of heritage language and cultural identities: a case study of two young British-Bangladeshis in London Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury 31 Minority languages and group identity: Scottish Gaelic in the Old World and the New John Edwards Part 5 Future directions 32 Intersectionality in language and identity research David Block and Victor Corona 33 Language and identity in the digital age Ron Darvin 34 Language and identity research in online environments: a multimodal ethnographic perspective Myrrh Domingo 35 Exploring neoliberal language, discourses and identities Christian W. Chun 36 The future of identity research: impact and new developments in sociolinguistics Bettina Beinhoff and Sebastian M. Rasinger 37 Identity in language learning and teaching: research agendas for the future Peter de Costa and Bonny Norton

Siân Preece is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the UCL Institute of Education. She is the author of Posh Talk: Language and Identity in Higher Education (2009) and a co-author of Language, Society and Power, 3rd edn (2011).