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Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage

A theatre event in context Language creates worlds Dramatic context and everyday life Outline of study Notes 'Raw' and 'cooked' linguistic identities Encounters with language varieties in everyday life Staging speech – staged speech Previous studies: indexing in mediated speech Researching audience response to staged speech Notes Threshold of tolerance overstepped: rejection The Playboy of the Western World under police protection Finland-Swedish on stage, at home and in other Nordic countries Olga in Dublin: two out-groups cannot be mixed Lowering the threshold of tolerance: discussion Notes Acceptance of linguistic code: fostering and affirming identity From the language of peasants to the language of an independent nation In-group and out-group meet in translation A language is a people and people are their language Acceptance of linguistic code: discussion Notes Changes in reception Diglossic language situations Ideological language planning in Egypt Diglossia in Modern Egyptian theatre Finland-Swedish – a majority that became a minority Opening the stage door to minority Vanishing boundaries: discussion Notes Works cited

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Political advertising and identity construction
Political campaigning is a specific form within the genre of advertising through which political parties market their ideas and their candidates as non-product ads (Cook 2001: 15). Voters exchange their votes for the party’s or candidate’s promise, often on the basis of identifying themselves with...
(Discourse interpretation : approaches and applications)
The Role of Catholicism in the Identity Construction Processes of Filipino Second Generations Living in Italy
Elena Caneva Religion has been a neglected issue in migration studies for a long time, both in the American context (Hagan and Ebaugh 2003) and in Europe (Ambrosini 2008). American scholars paid attention to other issues regarding migrations, whereas immigrant religion was overlooked (Foner and...
(Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives)
Religion in Identity Construction Processes of Immigrant Second Generations
Large-scale immigration to Europe and the formation of second generations questioned European societies about many issues regarding children of immigrant origins: for example, their educational attainments, identity construction processes, sociality, intergenerational relations, their entry into the...
(Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives)
The Filipino Second Generations Living in Italy: Exploring the Role of Catholicism in the Processes of Identity Construction
In-depth interviews conducted with young people of Filipino origin reveal that Catholicism is important to define their identities, and it is part of their everyday life. Religion remains a vital source in the immigration context, even though the role given to it differs among individuals. Specifically,...
(Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives)
Stalin: Godfather of the Modern Identity Construct
Stalinism and the personality cult of Stalin occupy a special place in the power-laden constructs of the Russian political collective identity. The roots of Stalinism go much deeper into the mental history and are connected with the fact that criticism of Stalin in Russia left intact the main principle...
(Not by bread alone : Russian foreign policy under Putin)
Religious Orientation, Migration and Identity Construction: Evidence from a Contemporary Romanian Rural Community
Alexandra Delia Introduction Relying on qualitative data from a multi-ethnic and multi-religious rural community in Romania, the central argument of this paper is that religions with different statuses (minority/majority) are used differently as resources for identity construction and social identification....
(Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region)
ICT, CROSS CULTURAL COLLABORATION AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
The increasing impact of new technologies, especially ICT, on the lives of young generations is conspicuous. The role of ICT in education, both within and outside schools, has also drawn an increasing amount of attention from educational researchers (Wind-chill, 1998). Among the emerging array of research...
(Educating “Good” Citizens in a Globalising World for the Twenty-First Century)
Russian Selves and European Others: Relational Identity Construction
In his standard study, Neumann identified two main ideal types of Europe—one progressive, liberal, and secular and the other conservative, legalist, and religious.55 Depending on what political trend prevailed in Russia, the two kinds of Europe were labelled as True or False accordingly. When Russian...
(Russian-European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region: Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe)
Relational Identity Construction
Overall relational identity construction in the later 1980s followed the pattern laid by the texts of the early 1960s. The textbooks stuck to a Marxist approach and constructed reality as a function of the social structure and production relations with a low degree of agency attributed to people(s) and...
(Russian-European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region: Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe)
The Core Processes of Meaning-Making and Civic Identity Construction
We asked earlier, what do we need to know in order to understand civic identity and its antecedents? What are the social and psychological processes involved in an individual becoming, and being, civically engaged or being disempow- ered or alienated? We identify four core processes involved in civic...
(Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education)