Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research

<p><em>Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research </em>examines established and emergent issues within identity research.</p><p>This innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendent<em> </em>approach drawing on a range of social science humanities and human science disciplines on the way to a detailed consideration of:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>the history of identity as a construct </li> <p> </p> <li>the components of a poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity</li> <p> </p> <li>the prospect of a Marxist political economy approach to identity</li> <p> </p> <li>the interrelationship between structure and agency and a model of structuring spheres<br> </li> <li>an expanded version of positioning theory</li> <p> </p> <li>the digital universe as the future of identity research.</li> </ul><p>Leading researcher David Block provides a personal take on this key topic of study in applied linguistics and explains why and how discourse analysis is still a useful means through which we can understand identity today. The book is essential reading for students and academics studying and researching within the area of language and identity.</p>