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Identity Trouble : Critical Discourse and Contested Identities /

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Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa (Editor), Iedema, Rick (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Discourse Analysis.
Gender Studies.
Linguistics, general.
Multilingualism.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociology of Culture.
Discourse analysis.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Linguistics.
Religion and culture.
Sex (Psychology)
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 295 pages)
ISBN:9780230593329
DOI:10.1057/9780230593329