Second language identities

by David Block

Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics

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Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralist thought and is associated with the work of authors such as Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Chris Weedon, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall. It then examines how in early SLA research focussing on show more affective variables, identity was an issue, lurking in the wings but not coming to the surface. Moving t show less

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David Block is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture, Language and Communication at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

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Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
401.93LanguageLanguagePhilosophy and theory; international languagesPsychological principles, language acquisition, speech perceptionLanguage acquisition
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P118.2 .B56Language and LiteraturePhilology. LinguisticsLanguage. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammarLanguage acquisition
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