The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity
Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics Series

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. Authored by specialists from around the world, each chapter introduces a topic in language and identity studies and provides a concise, critical survey in which the importance and relevance to applied linguists is explained.

Thirty-seven chapters are organised into five sections covering:

• theoretical perspectives informing language and identity studies
• categories and dimensions of identity
• key issues for researchers in language and identity studies
• topical case studies in areas of interest to applied linguistics
• future directions for language and identity studies in applied linguistics.

With further reading included in each chapter, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity is an essential reference for all students, teachers and researchers working in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, Education and TESOL.

Contents

List of figures, tables and boxes

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Language and identity in applied linguistics

PART I

Perspectives on language and identity

1 Historical perspectives on language and identity

2 Positioning language and identity

3 Identity in variationist sociolinguistics

4 Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to identity

5 Language and identity in linguistic ethnography

6 Discursive psychology and the production of identity in language practices

7 Critical discourse analysis and identity

PART II

Categories and dimensions of identity

8 Language and ethnic identity

9 Language, race and identity

10 Linguistic practices and transnational identities

11 Identity in post-colonial contexts

12 Language and religious identities

13 Language and gender identities

14 Language and non-normative sexual identities

15 Class in language and identity research

PART III

Researching the language and identity relationship:

Challenges, issues and puzzles

16 Ethics in language and identity research

17 A linguistic ethnography of identity

18 The politics of researcher identities

19 Challenges for language and identity researchers in the collection and

transcription of spoken interaction

20 Beyond the micro–macro interface in language and identity research

PART IV

Language and identity case studies

21 Constructing age identity

22 The significance of sexual identity to language learning and teaching

23 An identity transformation? Social class, language prejudice and the

erasure of multilingual capital in higher education

24 Being a language teacher in the content classroom

25 Disability identities and category work in institutional practices

26 ‘Comes with the territory’

27 Language, gender and identities in political life

28 Straight-acting: Discursive negotiations of a homomasculine identity

29 Styling and identity in a second language

30 Construction of heritage language and cultural identities

31 Minority languages and group identity

PART V

Future directions

32 Intersectionality in language and identity research

33 Language and identity in the digital age

34 Language and identity research in online environments

35 Exploring neoliberal language, discourses and identities

36 The future of identity research: Impact and new developments

in sociolinguistics

37 Identity in language learning and teaching

Index