The discursive construction of identities on- and offline personal, group and collective / edited by Birte Bös, University of Duisburg-Essen ; Sonja Kleinke, University of Heidelberg ; Sandra Mollin, University of Heidelberg ; and Nuria Hernández, University of Duisburg-Essen.

Other author/creatorBös, Birte, 1974-
Other author/creatorKleinke, Sonja.
Other author/creatorMollin, Sandra.
Other author/creatorHernández, Nuria.
SeriesDiscourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 1569-9463 ; volume 78
Contents Introduction: identity construction in complex discourse contexts / Sonja Kleinke, Nuria Hernández and Birte Bös -- Personal identities. Great pretenders: the phenomenon of impersonating (pseudo-)historical personae in medieval blogs, or, blogging for someone else's fame / Monika Kirner-Ludwig -- Constructing personal identities online: self-disclosure in popular blogs / Elise Salonen -- The development of identity in Batman comics / Claudia Enzweiler -- Group identities. Code-switching and identity construction in whatsapp: evidence from a (digital) community of practice / Michael Wentker -- Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen -- Indeterminate us and them: the complexities of referentiality identity and group construction in a public online discussion / Sonja Kleinke and Birte Bös -- "No prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way": the interplay between criticism and identity management in the comments sections on newspaper websites / Monika Eller -- The discursive construction of identities on- and offline. Collective identities.The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates / Sandra Mollin -- "And you know, Jeremy, my father came from a very poor background indeed": collective identities and the private-public interface in political discourse / Anita Fetzer -- Nations as persons: collective identities in conflict / Andreas Musolff.
General noteSelected papers presented at the First International Symposium on The Linguistic Construction of Personal and Group Identity, Structure, Pragmatics and Cognition, at the University of Heidelberg in 2013, and a follow-up workshop on identity construction held at the University of Duisburg-Essen in June 2015.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: International Symposium on the Linguistic Construction of Personal and Group Identity, Structure, Pragmatics and Cognition (1st : 2013 : Universität Heidelberg) Discursive construction of identities on- and offline personal, group and collective Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019 9789027200761
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