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. Authored by specialists from around the world, each chapter introduces a topic in language and identity studies and provides a concise, critical survey in which the importance and relevance to applied linguists is explained.
Thirty-seven chapters are organised into five sections covering:
theoretical perspectives informing language and identity studies
categories and dimensions of identity
key issues for researchers in language and identity studies
topical case studies in areas of interest to applied linguistics
future directions for language and identity studies in applied linguistics.
With further reading included in each chapter, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity is an essential reference for all students, teachers and researchers working in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, Education and TESOL.

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).

Contents List of figures, tables and boxes List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Language and identity in applied linguistics PART I Perspectives on language and identity 1 Historical perspectives on language and identity 2 Positioning language and identity 3 Identity in variationist sociolinguistics 4 Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to identity 5 Language and identity in linguistic ethnography 6 Discursive psychology and the production of identity in language practices 7 Critical discourse analysis and identity PART II Categories and dimensions of identity 8 Language and ethnic identity 9 Language, race and identity 10 Linguistic practices and transnational identities 11 Identity in post-colonial contexts 12 Language and religious identities 13 Language and gender identities 14 Language and non-normative sexual identities 15 Class in language and identity research PART III Researching the language and identity relationship: Challenges, issues and puzzles 16 Ethics in language and identity research 17 A linguistic ethnography of identity 18 The politics of researcher identities 19 Challenges for language and identity researchers in the collection and transcription of spoken interaction 20 Beyond the micro-macro interface in language and identity research PART IV Language and identity case studies 21 Constructing age identity 22 The significance of sexual identity to language learning and teaching 23 An identity transformation? Social class, language prejudice and the erasure of multilingual capital in higher education 24 Being a language teacher in the content classroom 25 Disability identities and category work in institutional practices 26 'Comes with the territory' 27 Language, gender and identities in political life 28 Straight-acting: Discursive negotiations of a homomasculine identity 29 Styling and identity in a second language 30 Construction of heritage language and cultural identities 31 Minority languages and group identity PART V Future directions 32 Intersectionality in language and identity research 33 Language and identity in the digital age 34 Language and identity research in online environments 35 Exploring neoliberal language, discourses and identities 36 The future of identity research: Impact and new developments in sociolinguistics 37 Identity in language learning and teaching Index