Identity

doi:10.1017/9781108863957.016

16 - Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021

Helen Ringrow

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Stephen Pihlaja

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Stephen Pihlaja: Affiliation:
Newman University

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Discusses Identity, focusing specifically on issues around individual and social identity in the presentation of self, and how religious believers use language to present themselves as members of communities and hold specific beliefs, often implicitly, with particular language.

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religion language belief identity feminism Critical Discourse Analysis ideolect community of practice gender race ethnicity

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Information: Analysing Religious Discourse , pp. 276 - 291

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108863957.016 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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