Yasir Suleiman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199747016
- eISBN:
- 9780199896905
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199747016.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
The chapter summarizes the main arguments in the book and points to the way a symbolic and quantitative approach to the study of language in society can be taken forward. It stresses the need for a ...
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The chapter summarizes the main arguments in the book and points to the way a symbolic and quantitative approach to the study of language in society can be taken forward. It stresses the need for a declaration of author positionality in studying the political meanings of the language-Self-identity link to guard against unintended ideological interference. It further highlights the effect of conflict on the conceptualisation of language as a resource with which to do things in society at the individual and group levels. The chapter argues that identities cannot be reduced to life style choices; it further argues that although identities are not essences they are, nevertheless, far from existing in a state of free fall.Less
The chapter summarizes the main arguments in the book and points to the way a symbolic and quantitative approach to the study of language in society can be taken forward. It stresses the need for a declaration of author positionality in studying the political meanings of the language-Self-identity link to guard against unintended ideological interference. It further highlights the effect of conflict on the conceptualisation of language as a resource with which to do things in society at the individual and group levels. The chapter argues that identities cannot be reduced to life style choices; it further argues that although identities are not essences they are, nevertheless, far from existing in a state of free fall.
