NEW BOOK: Discourse and Identity

[Elizabeth Stokoe]

Another new book announcement.

Published end March 2006:

Benwell, B., & Stokoe, E. (2006). Discourse and Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

The book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and academics interested in analyzing identity, and includes a strong focus on gender throughout.


Reviews:

"Engaging with a range of current theories and methods of discourse analysis, Discourse and Identity offers a critical overview of the ways in which researchers have approached the concept of identity. Benwell and Stokoe draw on an impressive variety of discourse contexts, from ordinary conversation among friends to magazine advertisements, from online interaction to talk about the neighbors. While Discourse and Identity illustrates a number of different approaches in depth, including discursive psychology, critical discourse analysis, and several types of narrative analysis, the book's particular strength is in demonstrating the techniques and advantages of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis as tools for illuminating the workings of identity as an interactional achievement. Students and scholars alike will find the text a helpful resource in navigating the broad field of discourse and identity research."

 

Mary Bucholtz, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara




"Benwell and Stokoe have produced an indispensable guide for any student or scholar interested in discourse and identity. This is a deft and highly accessible overview of a complex emerging body of knowledge. The authors move confidently, with great panache, from social theory to the micro details of linguistic analysis, taking in the latest work on spatial, virtual and commodified identities along the way. A neat and illuminating example can be found on every page, along with an important insight and an original line of argument. Discourse and Identity is the first scholarly map of the field and is a 'must own book' for every identity researcher."

 

Professor Margaret Wetherell, Director ESRC Identities Programme, Social Sciences, Open University.






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Dr Elizabeth Stokoe
Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology
Room U3.02, Brockington Building
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
+44(0)1509 223360
www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/depstaff/staff/stokoe.html
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