Identity: A Very Short Introduction
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'Identity' as a concept has many faces, and its very versatility in different contexts can make it hard to define. Florian Coulmas discusses the many meanings of this slippery concept, considering why individual and collective identities are important to...
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'Identity' as a concept has many faces, and its very versatility in different contexts can make it hard to define. Florian Coulmas discusses the many meanings of this slippery concept, considering why individual and collective identities are important to us, and discussing the problems asserting individual identities can create.
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'Identity' as a concept has many faces, and its very versatility in different contexts can make it hard to define. Florian Coulmas discusses the many meanings of this slippery concept, considering why individual and collective identities are important to us, and discussing the problems asserting individual identities can create.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Identity: A Very Short Introduction “
- Introduction: an identity wave
- 1: "Who am I?" Identity in philosophy
- 2: Identity in logic and the classical law of thought
- 3: Given or constructed? Identity in cultural anthropology
- 4: Adam and Eve, Hijra, LGBTQs and the shake-up of gender identities
- 5: Identity politics: promises and dangers
- 6: "Your station in life." Social identities in our time
- 7: Citizenship, legal status, and proof of identity - identity as a legal concept
- 8: Selfhood, character, and personality - the psychology of identity
- 9: "They don't speak our language." Identity in linguistics
- 10: Who is behind the mask? Identity in literature and literary criticism
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Florian Coulmas
Florian Coulmas is Professor of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies at Duisburg-Essen University. Prior to this, he has held research and teaching positions at Georgetown University, the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics, and Chuo University. He has published numerous books, including An Introduction to Multilingualism (OUP, 2017) and Writing and Society: A Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2013). For the past three decades he has served as Associate Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Languages, during which time he has observed the steadily increasing use of the concept of identity in both general and scholarly publications.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Florian Coulmas
- 2019, 147 Seiten, Maße: 10,6 x 17,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198828543
- ISBN-13: 9780198828549
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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