Overview
- Includes examples from student essays
- Argues that writers must be allowed to enhance their semantic variation
- Builds on Bourdieu’s idea of social institutions conferring "distinction"
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This book examines the ways in which a writer’s presentation of self can achieve or impede access to power. Conversations about written voice and style have traditionally revolved around the aesthetics of stylistic choice. These choices, while they help establish a writer’s presence in a text, too often ignore the needs of written identity as it crosses genres, disciplines, and rhetorical purposes. In contrast to stylistic investigations of a writer’s "voice" and its various components—diction, detail, imagery, syntax, and tone, for example—this book focuses on language variation and the linguistic features of a writer’s presence in a text, as well as the establishment of a writer’s social, cultural, and personal identity in a given text. The author attempts to explain the methods by which writers present themselves to their audiences. This book will be of particular interest to students and teachers of rhetoric and composition studies, as well as writers more broadly.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Schmit is Professor of English at Augsburg University, USA. He earned a PhD in English language/linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and served as an assistant instructor in UT’s renowned composition and rhetorical program. He has since been teaching composition and linguistics in postsecondary settings for the past 35 years. His scholarship has focused primarily on issues of language and composition studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sociolinguistics of Written Identity
Book Subtitle: Constructing a Self
Authors: John S. Schmit
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09563-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09562-7Published: 16 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09563-4Published: 15 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 139
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Literature, general, Philosophy of Mind, Writing Skills