LANGUAGE

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GROUP MEMBERSHIP

LANGUAGE ROLES AS IDENTITY MARKER

SPEECH C

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LANGUAGE

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BELONGIN

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SOCIAL IDENTITY

• Individuals identify with groups. • They are identified and accepted

by others in the group.• Individuals from other groups

identify them as belonging to a group. Both are the same kind of group (e.g. two families, two sports clubs …. two nations).

INSIDER OR OUTSIDER?

Quickly! A knife!

PASAME EL BISTURÍ!

SIII, ME APROBÓ EL PLAN!!!

“HEY! SHE´S COMING DOWN THE APPLES AND PEARS”

REFERENCE

• Byram M. Language and Identities. University of Durham, United Kingdom. 16 - 18 October 2006. Retrieved from: http://www.atriumlinguarum.org/contenido/Byram_Identities_final_EN.pdf (30 September, 2013 - 8.12 am)

• John Burn. Retrieved from: http://tamarackcommunity.ca/downloads/index/PB_belonging_meaning.pdf (30 September, 2013 - 7.52 am)

• Spolsky B. Sociolinguistics. Oxford. Oxford University Press. (1998)