Fighters, Girls and Other Identities - Sociolinguistics in a Martial Arts Club

This book examines how youths at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author relates analyses of their interactions to discussions of relevance to the sociology of sports, anthropology and education, ultimately providing an analytically nuanced contribution to the field.

About the author

Lian Malai Madsen is Associate Professor of Psychology of Language at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research interests include linguistic ethnography, interactional sociolinguistics, language and diversity, youth language, leisure communities and education, popular culture, and identities, style and stylisation.

Product details

• Authors: Lian Malai Madsen, Lian Malai Madsen
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2015
• EAN: 9781783093984
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-398-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 217 mm x 156 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 416 g
• Series: Encounters; Encounters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works