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Style and Social Identities Peter Auer

Style and Social Identities By Peter Auer

Style and Social Identities by Peter Auer


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One of the answers is that in saying what we want to say, we always position ourselves in social space as well, by speaking differently from relevant other social actors or groups. It shows that variable features cluster together in socially meaningful ways when considered as social (communicative) styles linked to social identities.

Style and Social Identities Summary

Style and Social Identities: Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity by Peter Auer

This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic variability that takes into account the construction of social identities through the formation of social communicative styles. It shows that style is a useful category in bridging the gap between single parameter variation and social identity. Social positioning, i.e., finding one's place in society, is one of its motivating forces.

Various aspects of the expression of stylistic features are focused on, from language choice and linguistic variation in a narrow sense to practices of social categorization, pragmatics patterns, preferences for specific communicative genres, rhetorical practices including prosodic features, and aesthetic choices and preferences for specific forms of taste (looks, clothes, music, etc.). These various features of expression are connected to multimodal stylistic indices through talk; thus, styles emerge from discourse. Styles are adapted to changing contexts, and develop in the course of social processes.

The analytical perspective chosen proposes an alternative to current approaches to variability under the influence of the so-called variationist paradigm.

About Peter Auer

Peter Auer, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany.

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NPB9783110190816
9783110190816
3110190818
Style and Social Identities: Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity by Peter Auer
New
Paperback
De Gruyter
2008-01-16
521
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