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 book is highly topical at a time when, in Europe and the world in general, questions of identity and belonging offer significant challenges to society. The choice of the study sites here, combined with the personal identities of the two researchers, has yielded an original study that highlights the unique insight to be achieved in research on identity, through the discourse analytic approach.'

Rosaleen Howard, Newcastle University writing in BAAL News

Autorentext
Author Dariusz Galasinski: Dariusz Galasi?ski is Professor of Discourse and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland. His books include Language of Deception, Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis (co-author), Men and the Language of Emotions, The Language of Belonging (co-author) and Men's Discourses of Depression.

Inhalt
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