Identity Revisited and Reimagined: Empirical and Theoretical Contributions on Embodied Communication Across Time and Space

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Many Ways-of-Being Across Sites. Identity as (Inter)action....Pages 5-24
Positioning Theory and Life-Story Interviews: Discursive Fields, Gaze and Resistance....Pages 25-39
Refusing What We Are: Communicating Counter-Identities and Prefiguring Social Change in Social Movements....Pages 41-63
Center-Staging Language and Identity Research from Earthrise Positions. Contextualizing Performances in Open Spaces....Pages 65-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-102
Co-constructing the Adolescent’s Identity: Agency and Autonomy as Interactional Accomplishments....Pages 103-121
Rethinking Identity in Adult Language Learning Classrooms....Pages 123-139
The Passage of Time as a Narrative Resource in Constructing a Better Self....Pages 141-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-168
From Political to National Identity in Zanzibar. Narratives on Changes in Social Practices....Pages 169-186
“She Didn’t Know I’m Black, You See”. Practices, Body Signs, and Professional Identity....Pages 187-205
The Complexities of Deaf Identities....Pages 207-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-223
“They Blame, They Complain but They Don’t Understand”: Identity Clashes in Cross-Cultural Virtual Collaborations....Pages 225-240
Identity Negotiations in a Visually Oriented Virtual Classroom....Pages 241-269
“Janne X Was Here”. Portraying Identities and Negotiating Being and Belonging in Informal Literacy Practices....Pages 271-292
A Moment of Self-Revelation as a Turning Point in Understanding Language Learning....Pages 293-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-317