The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective.

Forty-one chapters are organised into five sections covering:

• theoretical perspectives informing language and identity studies
• key issues for researchers doing language and identity studies
• categories and dimensions of identity
• identity in language learning contexts and among language learners
• future directions for language and identity studies in applied linguistics

Written by specialists from around the world, each chapter will introduce a topic in language and identity studies, provide a concise and critical survey, in which the importance and relevance to applied linguists is explained and include further reading.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity is an essential purchase for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and TESOL. Advisory board: David Block (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats/ Universitat de Lleida, Spain); John Joseph (University of Edinburgh); Bonny Norton (University of British Colombia, Canada).

Siân Preece is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the UCL Institute of Education. She is the author of Posh Talk: Language and Identity in Higher Education (2009) and a co-author of Language, Society and Power, 3rd edn (2011).

Introduction, Siân Preece; Part 1 Perspectives on language and identity; Chapter 1 Historical perspectives on language and identity, John E. Joseph; Chapter 2 Positioning language and identity, Judith Baxter; Chapter 3 Identity in variationist sociolinguistics, Rob Drummond, Erik Schleef; Chapter 4 Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to identity, Bethan Benwell, Elizabeth Stokoe; Chapter 5 Language and identity in linguistic ethnography, Miguel Pérez-Milans; Chapter 6 Discursive psychology and the production of identity in language practices, Jean McAvoy; Chapter 7 Critical discourse analysis and identity, Karin Zotzmann, John P. O'Regan; Part 2 Categories and dimensions of identity; Chapter 8 Language and ethnic identity, Vally Lytra; Chapter 9 Language, race and identity, Tope Omoniyi; Chapter 10 Linguistic practices and transnational identities, Anna De Fina; Chapter 11 Identity in post-colonial contexts, Priti Sandhu, Christina Higgins; Chapter 12 Language and religious identities, Ana Souza; Chapter 13 Language and gender identities, Lucy Jones; Chapter 14 Language and non-normative sexual identities, John Gray; Chapter 15 Class in language and identity research, David Block; Part 3 Researching the language and identity relationship; Chapter 16 Ethics in language and identity research, Anna Kristina Hultgren, Elizabeth J. Erling, Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury; Chapter 17 A linguistic ethnography of identity, Adrian Blackledge, A ngela Creese; Chapter 18 The politics of researcher identities, Frances Giampapa; Chapter 19 Challenges for language and identity researchers in the collection and transcription of spoken interaction, Eva Duran Eppler, Eva Codó; Chapter 20 Beyond the micro-macro interface in language and identity research, Kristine Horner, John Bellamy; Part 4 Language and identity case studies; Chapter 21 Constructing age identity, Patricia Andrew; Chapter 22 The significance of sexual identity to language learning and teaching, Cynthia D. Nelson; Chapter 23 An identity transformation?, Siân Preece; Chapter 24 Being a language teacher in the content classroom, Tom Morton; Chapter 25 Disability identities and category work in institutional practices, Eva Hjörne, Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Chapter 26 'Comes with the territory', Frances Rock; Chapter 27 Language, gender and identities in political life, Louise Mullany, Melissa Yoong; Chapter 28 Straight-acting, Tommaso M. Milani; Chapter 29 Styling and identity in a second language, Ben Rampton; Chapter 30 Construction of heritage language and cultural identities, Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury; Chapter 31 Minority languages and group identity, John Edwards; Part 5 Future directions; Chapter 32 Intersectionality in language and identity research, David Block, Victor Corona; Chapter 33 Language and identity in the digital age, Ron Darvin; Chapter 34 Language and identity research in online environments, Myrrh Domingo; Chapter 35 Exploring neoliberal language, discourses and identities, Christian W. Chun; Chapter 36 The future of identity research, Bettina Beinhoff, Sebastian M. Rasinger; Chapter 37 Identity in language learning and teaching, Peter De Costa, Bonny Norton;