Identity, Ethnolinguistic

Abstract

Abstract Ethnolinguistic identity refers to a subjective feeling of belonging or affiliation with a social group that is defined in terms of a common ethnic ancestry and a common language variety. Ethnolinguistic identity theory posits that people use communication accommodation strategies, including verbal and nonverbal convergence to or divergence from their communication partner in order to emphasize affiliation or disaffiliation, respectively. These microlevel intergroup interactions have implications for large‐scale, macrolevel language maintenance and shift. Related models emphasize the role of ethnolinguistic identity in the acquisition of communicative competence in new languages and the process of acculturation of ethnolinguistic groups. Recent conceptualizations of bicultural and situated identities suggest future directions for research by drawing on developmental, sociocognitive, and cultural psychology, as well as the psychology of language learning.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 8 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.