Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Identity and mode as a frame for understanding social meanings -- Language, identity, and communities of practice -- The elements of style -- All these years and still counting: why quantitative methods still appeal -- Community languages schools: the importance of context in understanding hybrid identities -- Multiple identities and second language learning in Hong Kong -- Performing identities in intergenerational conflict talk: a study of a Sicilian- Australian family -- Identity management, language variation and English language textbooks: focus on Pakistan -- The Housewife's Companion: identity construction in a Japanese women's magazine -- Uncovering how identities of laobaixing are constructed in China's most read magazine -- Style and authorial identity in Indonesian teen literature: a "sociostylistic" approach -- First person singular: Negotiating identity in academic writing in English -- Constructing professional identity through Curricula Vitae -- Unpacking professional identities for Business English students -- Migrant women, hooliganism, and online social visibility in Chinese personal blogs -- Performed research for public engagement: Language and identity studies on stage -- Subject index