Discourses of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces

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.

Roberta Piazza is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sussex. Her research is in the area of pragmatics and stylistics, and identity in relation to space and with reference to marginal groups. Some of her publications are The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond. 2011; Values and Choices in Television Discourse. A View from Both Sides of the Screen eds 2015 with L. Haarman, and A. Caborn; Marked Identities eds 2014 with A. Fasulo; Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Fictional Language of Cinema and Television. eds. 2011 with M. Bednarek, M. and F. Rossi.