Identity Issues

Literary and Linguistic Landscapes
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4438-2557-3
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten

The book Identity Issues: Literary and Linguistic Landscapes is a collection of essays, set out to explore the notion of identity as a constantly relevant, very complex, multi-faceted phenomenon. Understanding identity in a very broad sense, the authors approach it from various angles, highlighting its various aspects. The first section includes literary explorations that discuss identity issues of class, race, nation and history, as depicted in several works of, mostly, contemporary Anglo-American literature. The second section brings various linguistic studies of identity, starting with the usual sociolinguistic issues, but also including a range of other research routes, which draw upon insights from psychology, sociology, historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, lexicology, functional grammar, and applied linguistics.

The book addresses a broad academic audience. Due to its wide scope, both in topics covered and in varied theoretical approaches, it is not only aimed towards literary scholars studying modern Anglo-American literature, nor only at sociolinguists interested in language identity, but at numerous academics, as well as undergraduate and graduate students, who are interested in some of the disciplines that provided the framework for various articles (literary studies, sociology, cognitive linguistics, lexicology, functional grammar, academic writing, and English teaching). The book would be particularly appealing to all those who are interested in examining a variety of identity issues from diverse angles.

The authors of the articles come from Serbia, the UK, Canada, Japan, Norway, and Romania.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lopicic, Vesna

Mišic, Biljana Ilic

Über Autor(innen)

Vesna Lopicic is Professor at the English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nis, and Vice-Rector of the University of Nis, Serbia. She teaches British Studies, Canadian Studies and English Literature. She is the author of three monographs, several course books and readers, and the editor of several anthologies and volumes of conference proceedings.

Biljana Mišic Ilic is Professor at the English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Univerisity of Nis, Serbia, where she teaches English, syntax and pragmatics. She has written two coursebooks of syntax for EFL students and two monographs, and co-edited (with Vesna Lopicic) five books of proceedings from national and international conferences organized by the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš.