Identity, Ideology and Positioning in Discourses of Lifestyle Migration

The British in the Ariège

Michelle Lawson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 140 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-81549-7 (ISBN)

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This book uniquely integrates discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine representations of the self and other within lifestyle migration. With a focus on British migrants living in the Ariège, south-west France, the study identifies common positioning strategies to demonstrate links between wider themes and local identity construction. Drawing on positioning theory and related analytical tools, Lawson is the first to integrate a corpus of British media texts with online and face to face discourse. The book presents a detailed identification of ideologies relating to being British in France, and the linguistic analysis demonstrates how this value system is both taken up and habitually manipulated within local discourse as a resource for negotiating a particular kind of identity. Using social theory to underpin the analysis of positioning strategies in interaction, the book enhances our understanding of the complex possibilities within processes of self-identification in a migration context.

Michelle Lawson is an Honorary Associate and an Associate Lecturer for the Open University, UK. She completed her doctorate in Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University and is a member of the Lifestyle Migration research hub. She contributed to an edited volume: Practising the Good Life: Lifestyle Migration in Practices, edited by K. Torkington, I. David, & J. Sardinha.

- Chapter 1: Studying the British in the Ariège.- Chapter 2: Lifestyle migration and the British in France.- Chapter 3: The British media and the Brits in France.- Chapter 4: Life in the Ariège, in English: the online forum.- Chapter 5: Migrant identity and the 'other' in narrative positioning.- Chapter 6: Negotiating the moral landscape of lifestyle migration: identity work and 'integration'.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 140 p. 6 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	2105 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Corpus Analysis • Corpus Linguistics • Diaspora • Discourse analysis • identity creation • lifestyle migration • privileged migration
ISBN-10	3-319-81549-0 / 3319815490
ISBN-13	978-3-319-81549-7 / 9783319815497
Zustand	Neuware