ABSTRACT

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.

Forty-one chapters are organised into five sections covering:

  • theoretical perspectives informing language and identity studies
  • key issues for researchers doing language and identity studies
  • categories and dimensions of identity
  • identity in language learning contexts and among language learners
  • future directions for language and identity studies in applied linguistics

Written by specialists from around the world, each chapter will introduce a topic in language and identity studies, provide a concise and critical survey, in which the importance and relevance to applied linguists is explained and include further reading.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity is an essential purchase for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and TESOL. Advisory board: David Block (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats/ Universitat de Lleida, Spain); John Joseph (University of Edinburgh); Bonny Norton (University of British Colombia, Canada).

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Language and identity in applied linguistics

part |169 pages

Language and identity case studies

chapter |14 pages

Constructing age identity

The case of Mexican EFL learners

chapter |16 pages

An identity transformation?

Social class, language prejudice and the erasure of multilingual capital in higher education 1

chapter |14 pages

Being a language teacher in the content classroom

Teacher identity and content and language integrated learning (CLIL)

chapter |15 pages

‘Comes with the territory'

Expert–novice and insider–outsider identities in police interviews

chapter |15 pages

Straight-acting

Discursive negotiations of a homomasculine identity 1

chapter |16 pages

Construction of heritage language and cultural identities

A case study of two young British-Bangladeshis in London

chapter |12 pages

Minority languages and group identity

Scottish Gaelic in the Old World and the New

part |97 pages

Future directions