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In:Identity Perspectives from Peripheries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Jan-Ola Östman
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 352] 2025
► pp. 2–15

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Chapter 1
Identities and peripheries

 | Stanford University
 | University of Helsinki
Published online: 13 June 2025
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Abstract
The basic tenet of the present volume is to focus on the impact of different kinds of peripheries and margins in society in order to acquire a better understanding of what we might want to talk about as core properties in human (linguistic) behavior. In particular, the volume seeks an understanding of how issues of non-centrality can provide a deeper understanding of what we understand by identity — irrespective of whether one’s identity is “typical” or “atypical” in the eyes of society at large and cultural traditions. This introductory chapter sets the scene and gives our perspective on the background to the very notions periphery and identity, and introduces the subsequent chapters in the volume. The chapter deals with the distinction between identities as being essentialistic vs. fluid, and the concomitant notions of to what extent we should see identities as socially and externally (pre)given and predetermined or as individually and contextually acquired, emergent and moldable.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Peripheries in linguistics
  • 3.Identity and identities
  • 4.The studies in this volume
  • 5.Future avenues
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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