By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them: On Linguistic Identity
Malcolm G. Coulthard · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2008
My main professional interest in the communication and interpretation of signals of identity is in the context of forensic authorship attribution and so I focus particularly on what it is possible to glean early in their encounter with a previously unknown speaker/writer. My main personal interest is in the experience of semi-competent non-native speakers struggling to maintain their identity in a new culture. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.