"Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction, less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s). This volume focuses on address terms, pragmatic markers, code switching/choice and orthography, the indexicalities of which are explored in different communicative activities. The volume is unusual in: i) the range of languages which are covered: Bergamasco, Brazilian Portuguese, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Swedish; ii) the inclusion of different communicative settings and text-types: workplace emails, everyday and institutional conversations, interviews, migrant narratives, radio phone-ins, dyadic and group settings, road-signs, service encounters; iii) its consideration of both synchronic and diachronic factors; iv) its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches. The volume illustrates some of the linguistic means speakers draw on to position themselves and others and hopes to stimulate further research studies in this vein"--.

• Positioning the Self and Others
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. Positioning, identity, indexicality, (inter)subjectivity, ideology
    • 2.1 Positioning
    • 2.2 Identity
    • 2.3 Indexicality
    • 2.4 (Inter)subjectivity and (inter)subjectification
    • 2.5 Ideology
  • 3. Summary of the chapters
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
• Chapter 2. Positioning through address practice in Finland-Swedish and Sweden-Swedish service encounters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Address in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish
  • 3. Data and methods
  • 4. Findings
    • 4.1 Participant roles: Customer and staff
    • 4.2 Sweden and Finland
    • 4.3 Younger and older participants
    • 4.4 Situational differences
    • 4.5 Discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Transcription conventions and glossing symbols
  • References
• Chapter 3. Sociocultural and linguistic constraints in address choice from Latin to Italian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and methods
  • 3. The development of the system of address in Latin
    • 3.1 Classical Latin
    • 3.2 Late Latin
  • 4. The system of address in Italian
    • 4.1 Old Italian
    • 4.2 16th century
    • 4.3 18th century
    • 4.4 20th-century
    • 4.5 Present-Day Italian
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Author query
• Chapter 4. Closeness at a distance: Positioning in Brazilian workplace emails
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Literature review
    • 2.1 Relating and positioning: The importance of phatic talk
    • 2.2 Greetings and closings in emails
    • 2.3 Culture and communication in Brazilian workplaces
  • 3. Data and methods
  • 4. Findings: Doing closeness at a distance
    • 4.1 Greetings and closings
    • 4.2 Absence of greetings and closings
    • 4.3 Changes over time
  • 5. Conclusion
  • 6. Future research
  • References
• Chapter 5. Beyond the notion of periphery: An account of polyfunctional discourse markers within the Val.Es.Co. model of discourse segmentation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Traugott (2012) and the problems for the SIPH: Sp. oye (hey) and mira (look), no doubt and surely
    • 2.1 Traugott (2012) and the problems for the SIPH: Sp. oye (hey) and mira (look), no doubt and surely
    • 2.2 The Val.Es.Co. model of discourse units: Towards a solution
  • 3. Findings
    • 3.1 An alternative analysis using the VAM proposal
    • 3.2 A diachronic problem: The evolution of no doubt and surely within the VAM
    • 3.2 A diachronic problem: The evolution of no doubt and surely within the VAM
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
  • Author query
• Chapter 6. Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background/literature review
    • 2.1 Subjectivity and PMs
    • 2.2 Identity, indexicality and PMs
    • 2.3 From variationist to variational
    • 2.4 Metacommenting in English and French
  • 3. Data and methods
    • 3.1 The corpora investigated
    • 3.2 Raw rates of occurrence per 10,000 words
    • 3.3 Classifying the markers into functional sub-types
  • 4. Findings
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 7. Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background/literature review
    • 2.1 Characteristics of direct speech in spoken language
    • 2.2 The evolving functions of direct speech: A diachronic perspective
  • 3. Data and methods
  • 4. Findings: Pragmatic functions and speaker positioning
    • 4.1 Hedging and approximation
    • 4.2 Imitation, focus and emphasis
    • 4.3 Inner monologue
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Chapter 8. Positioning of self in interaction: Adolescents’ use of attention-getters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background review: Attention-getters in previous work
  • 3. Data and methods: Corpus analysis of the attention getters
  • 4. Findings
    • 4.1 Look
    • 4.2 Listen
    • 4.3 Come on
    • 4.4 Excuse me
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 9. Constellation of indexicalities and social meaning: Constellation of indexicalities and social meaning: The evolution of cioè in Contemporary Italian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and methods
  • 3. The pragmatic functions of cioè: Background and findings
    • 3.1 Contexts of use and age of speakers
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Chapter 10. “Proper is whatever people make it”: Stance, positionality, and ideological packaging in a dinnertime conversation
  • 1. Constructing ideology via stance and positionality
  • 2. The sociopolitical hierarchies of Spanish
  • 3. “Now you can see how crazy we really are”: Data and methods
  • 4. Generating implication through stance-taking
  • 5. The relationship between code choice and linguistic hierarchy
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix A. Full transcript
  • Appendix B. Transcription conventions
• Chapter 11. Representations of self and other in narratives of return migration
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
  • 3. Data and methods
    • 3.1 Scope and data collection
    • 3.2 Analytical focus
  • 4. Findings
    • 4.1 Greek ethnic membership alignment and class membership markers
    • 4.2 Pronouns others and hierarchies: Greeks, ethnic, Anglos, and Aborigines in Australia
    • 4.2 Pronouns others and hierarchies: Greeks, ethnic, Anglos, and Aborigines in Australia
    • 4.3 Liminal identities
    • 4.4 Constructed dialogue as a positioning device
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Chapter 12. Orthography as an identity marker: The case of bilingual road signs in the province of Bergamo
  • 1. Preliminary remarks
  • 2. Bergamo and its territory: Sociolinguistic background
  • 3. The survey
  • 4. Analysis and discussion
    • 4.1 The semiotics of code-preference in public signage
    • 4.2 Orthography as an identity marker
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix: Maps
• Chapter 13. Positioning the self in talk about groups: Linguistic means emphasising veracity used by members of the Georgian Greek community
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Identification, boundaries, positioning, and veracity in discourse
  • 3. Data
  • 4. Emphasising veracity in the interview corpus
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• Author index
• Subject index