Identity negotiation of upwardly mobile migrants – combining interactional sociolinguistic and social psychological analysis to advance our understanding of self-group affiliation and distancing KU Leuven
While both interactional sociolinguistics (S) and social psychology (P) study identity negotiation and address research topics with societal relevance (e.g. discrimination against migrants), there is little cross-fertilization between the two disciplines. Also, even though they draw on very diverse research methods (S: qualitative analyses of authentic interactions and research interviews; P: quantitative survey research and experimental ...