ABSTRACT
One of the most fundamental ways we have of establishing our identity, and of shaping other people's views of who we are, is through our use of language. This chapter continues the theme established in Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 about how people use language to construct a social identity (or identities) for themselves, and also about how social groups and communities use language as a means of identifying their members, and of establishing their boundaries.
