Offers a collection of articles that is a sociolinguistic response to the explosion of scholarly interest in issues of identity. This book tackles the problem of how personal identity is made visible and intelligible to others through language, and how this may be constrained.

Contents: Kamila Ciepiela: From language as an identity marker to language as a toolkit for identity performance – Costanza Cucchi: Language and national identity. Applications of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions – Magdalena Jurewicz: European identity as an answer to the problem of the national identity of the interpreter – Neşe Kaya/Didar Akar: Ambivalent belongings: Constructing identities in immigrant discourse – Aniela Korzeniowska: The complexity of identity and a sense of belonging as revealed through ‘English, a Scottish essay’ by Douglas Dunn – Barbara Loester: Scotland and Bavaria: Regional affiliation and linguistic identity in ‘peripheral’ communities – Laura Mahalingappa: Identity construction in context: Lexical variation following the Turkish language reform – Agnieszka Miksza: ‘Tridentity’ of Elisabeth Gilbert in Eat, pray, love: One woman’s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia (2006) – Bryan Meadows: ‘Now here I am influent in Spanish’: Negotiating monolingual Hispanic identities at the bilingual US/Mexico border – Jacqueline Peters: Be(com)ing Jamaican: (Re)-constructing an ethno-cultural identity – Davi S. Reis: English as an international language and linguistic legitimacy: Empowering ESL speakers’ identities – Hanne Tange: Do university lecturers have linguistic rights? – Katharina Vajta: Construction of national identities in language textbooks – Argiris Archakis/Sofia Lampropoulou: «Just for fun mate»: The construction of masculinity in Greek youth storytelling – Kamila Ciepiela: Small story telling in performance of teenage girl situated identities – Elizabeth R. Miller: Analyzing linguistic constructs and interactional performance in investigating emergent identities – Douglas Mark Ponton: What’s in a (Brazilian shirt) name? Discursive issues involved in achieving membership of a community of radio listeners – Dorota Guzowska: The construction of parental identity in 17th century English autobiographies – Danuta Wiśniewska: Whose identity? The role of self-mention in action research reports in the field of EFL pedagogy.