Linguistic insights· 2014
Space, Place and the Discursive Construction of Identity
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Short summary
This collection of articles explores how language, space, and place are used to construct and negotiate identity across various contexts, from social research interviews to online platforms.
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Key points
- Identity is discursively constructed through the use of language and spatial concepts.
- Place and space are actively shaped in discourse to define and negotiate identities.
- Linguistic tools such as metaphor, indexicality, and deixis play a crucial role in identity construction.
- The collection covers a wide range of contexts, including interviews, art criticism, journalism, and social media.
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Abstract
Contents: Greg Myers/Sofia Lampropoulou: Places in Social Research Interviews: Corpus and Conversation - Paul Tucker: Language, Space and Object Identity in Writing on Visual Art - Dacia Dressen-Hammouda: Place and Space as Shapers of Disciplinary Identity: The Role of Indexicality in the Emergence of Disciplinary Writing Expertise - Rosario Caballero: Language, Space and Body: Sensing and Construing Built Space through Metaphor - Nicholas Brownlees: The Constraints and Exploitation of Textual Space in the Seventeenth-Century Periodical Press - Charlotte Danino: Events as Spatial Constructions: The Case Study of CNN's Live Broadcast on 9/11 - Davide Mazzi: Head home via the wine store next door ...: Knowledge of Place and Other Representation in American and Italian News Articles - Silvia Cacchiani: Tourist Gaze, Tourist Destination Images and Extended Tourist Destination Experiences: Description and Point of View in Community Travelogs - Giorgia Riboni: Constructing (Cyber-)space on Twitter: A Study of Place Deixis in Tweets - Marina Dossena: Tales of the New World: The Linguistic Construction of Identity between Psychological Proximity and Geographical Distance - Federica Ferrari: At the Crossroads between Subject and Object of Research: Identity Negotiation in the Discourse of 'Psych. Doctors' - Anna Stermieri: There is drama here....Narrative Spaces in Blog Theatre Reviews - Geoffrey Williams: Identity Depends on Who You Are: A Corpus Perspective - Greg Lessard/Michael Levison: The Literary Representation of Space and Identity: A Model Based on Directed Acyclic Graphs.
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