Identities in and Across Cultures

Scholars of English, linguistics, and translation investigate how people manifest culturally shaped identities in and through discourse in documents and texts from multiple spheres of action. They also look at possible ways that understanding and acceptance of diverse cultural identities can be molded and developed through education. The overarching themes are framing identities through the media, academic and professional identities, and identities in cross-cultural encounters. Among the topics are framing identity through the virtual channels of European Union institutional communication, cross-disciplinary identity-forming strategies in research articles, a cross-cultural analysis of identity conflicts in book reviews, drifts in the priming of Anglicisms in business communication, and identity and culture in teaching English as an international language. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Paola Evangelisti Allori is Senior Professor of English and English Linguistics at the Universita degli Studi di Roma ‘Foro Italico’ where she also served as Director of the Language Centre and Head of the Department of Education for Sport and Human Movement. Her research has focused on the language/culture interaction in domain specific-discourse both academic and professional, and has published extensively on comparative analyses of specialized discourse in various disciplinary areas and fields of action.