Piazza Roberta (ed.) Discourses of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces

Routledge, 2019. — 321 p. — (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics). — ISBN: 978-0-8153-9568-3 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-351-18338-3 (ebk)This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine linguistic and social phenomena in places shaped by displacement and social inequality. The book also looks at chronotopes, the Bakhtinian-inspired concept of the interconnectedness of time and space in identity. The volume demonstrates how studying liminal places and spaces can offer unique insights into how people construct language and selfhood in these spaces, making this key reading for researchers in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, geography, and linguistic anthropology.Liminality and Chronotope
Chronotopic Identities: The South in the Narratives Told by Members of Mapuche Communities in Chile
Narrating Desire for Place: Chronotopes of Desire for the Portuguese Homeland Before and After “Return”
Discourses of (Be)Longing: Later Life and the Politics of Nostalgia
A Space of Your Own: Transforming Roma Heritage Practices and Identity in Contexts of Economic and Social Precarity
With and Without Zanzibar: Liminal Diaspora Voices and the Memory of the Revolution
Liminality and Institutional Power
Challenging Peripherality: Cornwall in Pan-Celtic Narratives of Place
Place-Identity and Urban Policy: Sharing Leisure Spaces in the ‘Post-Conflict’ City
Place-Based Narratives among New Speakers of ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i
Road Signs and the Negotiation of a Place-Based Identity in Israel
Touring Amsterdam: Jews and the Tolerant City
The Politics of Mental Health: Alienation and Community in Inner-City London
‘Offshore’ as Marginality: Exploring the Panama Papers and the Feasibility of Post-National Sociolinguistics
Notes on Contributors