A linguistic analysis of indexical markers of identity in Flemish job interviews in a changing recruitment context: A sociolinguistic-pragmatic mixed methods study KU Leuven
From the perspective of linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics, the construction of identity tends to be analyzed by, among others, drawing on the principle of indexicality which connects linguistic utterances to extra-linguistic reality. On the one hand, languages contain particular deictic elements (e.g. pronouns) which almost automatically entail some – locally highly variable – indexical force. On the other hand, any linguistic ...