The Sociolinguistics of Written Identity: Constructing a Self Schmit John S.
The Sociolinguistics of Written Identity: Constructing a Self Schmit John S. This book examines the ways in which a writer's presentation of self can achieve or impede access to power. These choices,…
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The Sociolinguistics of Written Identity: Constructing a Self Schmit John S.
This book examines the ways in which a writer's presentation of self can achieve or impede access to power. 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. Conversations about written voice and style have traditionally revolved around the aesthetics of stylistic choice.
The author attempts to explain the methods by which writers present themselves to their audiences. 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. This book will be of particular interest to