In:Identity Perspectives from Peripheries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Jan-Ola Östman
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 352] 2025
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 13 June 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.352.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.352.toc
Table of contents
ForewordVII
Introduction
Chapter 1.Identities and peripheries2
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Jan-Ola Östman
Part I.Building the peripheral stage
Chapter 2.Identity glocalization in rural peripheries18
Jan-Ola Östman
Chapter 3.Location! location! location! (and transcultural capital): Reframing peripherality as opportunity at an Istanbul kebab shop36
Anne Ambler Schluter
Chapter 4.Dimensions of periphery: Identity work in a multilingual German‑African church service66
Cornelia F. Bock
Part II.Identities in interaction
Chapter 5.Knowledge distribution in provenance inquiries: Small talk in Nigerian clinical meetings94
Akin Odebunmi
Chapter 6.From the peripheries of adulthood: Deconstructing culturally‑expected identities of age categories125
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Judit Kroo
Chapter 7.Making distinctions between “us” and “them” in a meta-frame of interaction145
Makiko Takekuro
Chapter 8.Core vs. peripheral descriptions of an ambivalent identity: Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders167
Kyoko Aizaki
Part III.Gender, narratives, and peripheries
Chapter 9.Voices from the Kazakhstani periphery: Constructing an identity of a village woman through a selfportrait in a mealtime narrative188
Aisulu Kulbayeva
Chapter 10.Death-Row inmates’ last statements: Establishing identity through expressions of responsibility218
Jan-Ola Östman
Helena Halmari
Chapter 11.Querying peripheral identities with penumbral positionings in ‘gay’ immigrants’ ‘coming-back-in’ narratives235
Ping-Hsuan Wang
Chapter 12.#transandproud: Narrative positioning and construction of female‑to‑male transgender identity on Instagram260
Katherine Arnold-Murray
Index
