gender, ethnicity, experience, and language proficiency. In postmodernism
and feminist linguistics, identity is not seen as a constant but is viewed
as unstable, fragmented, self-conscious, and constructed in interaction. In
critical applied linguisticsthe role of identity has been explored in
relation to the role language and discourse can play in marginalizing or
empowering speakers.ideogramn
see ideographic writing
ideographic writingn
a writing systemusing symbols (ideograms) to represent whole words or
concepts (“ideas”). The Chinese writing system is often considered to be
ideographic.
For example, in Chinese the ideogram represents “water”.
Chinese can create new lexemes by combining existing ideograms to form
compound words. It can also combine existing ideograms into a sequence
whose pronunciation is like that of a foreign word the Chinese wish to
borrow, thus “transliterating” the foreign word into Chinese characters.
ideologyn
a set of concepts, doctrines and beliefs that forms the basis of a political,
educational or economic system.
The relationships between ideology, language, and discourse are a central
focus of critical theory and critical linguistics.
see curriculum ideologies
ideophonesn
a type of sound symbolismused to provide a vivid representation of an
object or image that has no inherent acoustic qualities, such as (in English)
zig-zag, shilly-shally, or topsy-turvy.
see also onomatopoeia
idiolectn idiolectaladj
the language system of an individual as expressed by the way he or she
speaks or writes within the overall system of a particular language. In its
widest sense, someone’s idiolect includes their way of communicating; for
example, their choice of utterances and the way they interpret the utter-
ances made by others. In a narrower sense, an idiolect may include those
features, either in speech or writing, which distinguish one individual from
others, such as voice quality, pitch, and speech rhythm.
see also dialect, sociolect
idiolect