Publisher | Routledge; 1st edition |
ISBN 13 | 9780367404468 |
ISBN 10 | 036740446X |
Author | David Block |
Book Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Book Description | Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research examines established and emergent issues within identity research.This innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendentapproach, drawing on a range of social science, humanities and human science disciplines on the way to a detailed consideration of:the history of identity as a construct the components of a poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identitythe prospect of a Marxist political economy approach to identitythe interrelationship between structure and agency and a model of structuring spheres an expanded version of positioning theorythe digital universe as the future of identity research.Leading researcher David Block provides a personal take on this key topic of study in applied linguistics and explains why and how discourse analysis is still a useful means through which we can understand identity today. The book is essential reading for students and academics studying and researching within the area of language and identity. |
About the Author | David Block is Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced Studies) (ICREA) Research Professor in Sociolinguistics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has published books, articles and chapters on a variety of topics, adopting in recent years a Marxist perspective in his analysis of contemporary social phenomena. He is co-editor (with Sarah Khan) of The Secret Life of English-Medium Instruction (Routledge, 2021). |
Publication Date | 2021-12-21 |
Number of Pages | 146 pages |