Beschreibung:
This examines a significant aspect of contemporary social life: cultural identities and our linguistic means of constructing them. It combines a theoretical re-assessment of processes of identification with case studies of the discourses of three-generation families living in split-border communities along the former 'Iron Curtain'.
This examines a significant aspect of contemporary social life: cultural identities and our linguistic means of constructing them. It combines a theoretical re-assessment of processes of identification with case studies of the discourses of three-generation families living in split-border communities along the former 'Iron Curtain'.
Lits of Illustrations Acknowledgements Maps Setting the Context The Language of Belonging The Grammar of Identity Stories of Belonging and Identification Photography and the Discourses of Memory and Identification The Voices of Neighbourhood Frames of Belonging: Crossing Local, National and Transnational Spaces Notes Bibliography Index