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A property developer fears that a burgeoning ibis population will prevent the construction of a high rise apartment complex; a bus stop outside a dementia care facility in Düsseldorf suffers its own identity crisis; a young man's new job requires him to pose as a woodcutter and wave at a trainload of tourists; an aging, reclusive archivist becomes locked in a strange battle of wills with a courier; a backpacker in Israel has a bizarre religious experience.In these award winning stories, David Cohen explores the oddities of human behaviour with wit, affection and startling brilliance.

Identity (Psychology). --- Experience (Religion).

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Sociolinguistics --- Identity (Psychology)

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"Raul P. Lejano offers a boldly original synthesis of narratology, psychology, and human geography. This helps him articulate his two main insights: that our identity as individuals, though not completely determined by sociocultural factors, nevertheless profoundly reflects our embeddedness in particular places; and that the way we think of, or would like to think of, our own identity is most readily captured in the stories we tell about ourselves. Most revealing of all, he suggests, are our stories about coming to grips with an entire city, especially when our experience of it is actually one of dislocation or relocation - when we in some sense or other "lose" a city to which we have hitherto belonged, or when we "find" a new one. By way of illustration the book includes four specially commissioned autobiographical stories by writers of Filipino origin, which Legano's analytical chapters compare and contrast with each other within his interdisciplinary frame of reference. At once learnedly sophisticated and readably empathetic, his commentaries are underpinned by a basically phenomenological orientation, which leads him to view human individuals as essentially relational beings, naturally inclined to enter into dialogue with both their fellow-creatures and the larger environment"--

Identity (Psychology) --- Social aspects.

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The book is a proposal of reading the works of the leading European medievalists of the twentieth century in the cultural context of medievalism, understood here as a belief in the fundamental role of the Middle Ages for the development of a specifically European system of values. An innovative idea was to use a comparative perspective for three historiographic traditions: Polish, French and Russian. Inscribing into the “bright legend” of the Middle Ages through perceiving such values as respecting differences with respect for local tradition, subsidiarity and solidarity towards the community, the three historians indicate the basic features of European unity, actively shaping the debate on the identity of contemporary Europe. // Książka jest propozycją odczytania dorobku czołowych europejskich mediewistów XX wieku w kulturowym kontekście mediewalizmu, rozumianego tu jako przekonanie o fundamentalnej roli średniowiecza dla wykształcenia swoiście europejskiego systemu wartości. Nowatorskim pomysłem było zastosowanie perspektywy porównawczej dla trzech tradycji historiograficznych: polskiej, francuskiej i rosyjskiej. Wpisując się w „jasną legendę” średniowiecza, poprzez dostrzeżenie w nim takich wartości, jak poszanowanie różnic przy jednoczesnym szacunku dla tradycji lokalnej, pomocniczość czy solidarność wobec społeczności, trzej historycy wskazują podstawowe cechy jedności europejskiej, aktywnie kształtując debatę nad tożsamością współczesnej Europy.

Group identity. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social aspects.

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This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on 'clusivity' as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human identity, each of which can be thought of as an aggregative abstraction with its own complexities: personal identity, group identity and collective identity. The contributions pay special attention to the interplay between the public and private dimensions of the interactions and audiences, as well as the potential impact of social and technical affordances of different communicative settings and online and offline modes of identity construction. The volume is aimed at all researchers concerned with the complex notion of identity, both in linguistics and in neighbouring disciplines.

Linguistics. --- Language and languages. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sociolinguistics.