Tożsamość zbiorowa jako zjawisko komunikacyjnojęzykowe
Collective identity as a communicative and linguistic phenomenon

Reflections from a linguistic perspective

Author(s): Marta Wójcicka, Waldemar Czachur
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: collective identity; language; sign; code; discourse analysis; text; discourse
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this work is to establish what collective identity is from a linguistic perspective. We assume that identity is an important research object if seen as a kind of a specific type of language communication and shared knowledge. Thanks to this knowledge an individual becomes aware of their own distinctiveness and belonging to community. The findings are of theoretical, ordering and designing character. We base our reflections on ethnolinguistics, cultural linguistics, text and discourse linguistics. In the first part of the article we present the arguments for the communicative-linguistic character of collective identity, looking at it from the perspective of sign and code. In the second part, we refer to the rich experience of linguists and present various research methods applied in identity research from the perspective of sign and code.

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