The Language of Belonging

Author: Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna, Galasinski, Dariusz

linguistics

Published on 10 August 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Language and Globalization' series.

Paperback / softback | 216 pages, XII, 216 p.
215 x 140 x 8 | 302g

This examines a significant aspect of contemporary social life: cultural identities and our linguistic means of constructing them. It combines a theoretical re-assessment of processes of identification with case studies of the discourses of three-generation families living in split-border communities along the former 'Iron Curtain'.