Identity Revisited and Reimagined: Empirical and Theoretical Contributions on Embodied Communication

Preface.- Part I. Conceptional Framings of Identity in a Multifaceted World; Editor's Introduction.- Chapter 1. Many-Ways-of-Being. Identity as (Inter)Action; Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Julie Feilberg and Aase Lyngvær Hansen.- Chapter 2. Positioning Theory and Life-Story Interviews: Discursive Fields, Gaze and Resistance; David Block.- Chapter 3. Co-Constructing the Adolescent's Identity: Agency and Autonomy as Interactional Accomplishments; Marina Everri and Laura Sterponi.- Chapter 4. The Complexities of Deaf Identities; Irene Leigh.- Part II. Making, Undoing and Remaking: Performing Identities; Editor's Introduction.- Chapter 5. Refusing What We Are: Communicating Counter-Identities and Prefiguring Social Change in New Social Movements; Paul McIlvenny.- Chapter 6. (Trans)Languaging and (Trans)Formation: Rethinking Identity in Adult Language Learning Classrooms; Jenny Rosén.- Chapter 7. The Passage of Time as a Narrative Resource in Constructing a "Better" Self; Julia Sacher.- Part III. Conveying Identities in Embodies Interaction; Editor's Introduction.- Chapter 8. Embodied Communication in Pedagogical Relationships: Dancing Interactions; Geraldene Codin, Bridget Egan, Ann Fox and Penny Lawrencea.- Chapter 9. "She Didn't Know I'm Black, You See" - Practices, Body Signs, and Professional Identity; Ellen Andenæs.- Part IV. Identity Work in Institutional and Technology Mediated Environments; Editor's Introduction.- Chapter 10. Mundane, Everyday Actions with Technology Questioning a Dominant View on Language Learning: A Case Study of a Deaf Sign Language Signer as a Learner of English; Elina Tapio.- Chapter 11. "Janne X Was Here". Portraying Identities and Negotiating Being and Belonging in Informal Literacy Practices; Annaliina Gynne.- Chapter 12. Identity and Culture Clashes in Cross Cultural Virtual Collaborations; Elisabeth Keating.- Chapter 13. Identity Negotiations in a Visually Oriented Virtual Classroom; Johan Hjulstad.- Afterword; Tommaso Milani.