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This book brings together a collection of 12 articles addressing current theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues in sociolinguistic research on identity. As described in the Introduction, the contributions to the book cast a critical eye on various poststructural tenets about the relationship between language and identity. Part I discusses existing and/or novel theoretical perspectives on the construction of identity through language. The rest of the book presents empirical cases that show how various sociolinguistic approaches may illuminate the study of identity in different settings. Each case examines how the deployment of either linguistic features (Part II) or different languages and language varieties (Part III) contributes sociolinguistic resources for identity work.
Chap. 1 proposes an innovative...