The Construction of Identity in War Discourse
Abstract
The notion of identity has been of much importance in the recent decades to the linguistic studies due to the surprising link between language and identity. Researches in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, ethnomethodology and anthropology have considered identity the inherent property of human interaction.Garland (2008: 254) argues that interaction among people is often shaped by peoples perceptions of one anothers identity. They use the language to reveal their nationality, race, class, and gender (see Litosseliti and Sunderland, 2002). They map their own cultural or ethnic belongingness (see Higgins, 2007 and Bucholtz, 2004). Garland (2008: 495) continues to discuss identity with the professional and institutional settings, i.e. speakers identity is clearly related to that of their companies and hence the speaker will become typically the mouthpiece of their organization.