Orthopraxy, writing and identity

Mirror Writing and a Dissociative Identity Disorder

Individuals with dissociative identity disorder (DID) have been known to show varied skills and talents as they change from one dissociative state to another. For example, case reports have described people who have changed their handedness or have spoken foreign languages during their dissociative states. During an interview with a patient with DID, a surprising talent emerged when she wrote a...

Detection of Demographics and Identity in Spontaneous Speech and Writing

This chapter focuses on the automatic identification of demographic traits and identity in both speech and writing. We address language use in the virtual world of on-line games and text entry on mobile devices in the form of chat, email and nicknames and demonstrate text factors that correlate with demographics, such as age, gender, personality and interaction style. Also presented here is wor...

Metaphors of Writing and Intersections with Jamaican Male Identity

An Exploration of Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing

The view that academic writing is purely objective, impersonal and informational, which is often reflected in English for Academic Purposes materials, has been criticized by a number of researchers. By now, the view of academic writing as embodying interaction among writers, readers and the academic community as a whole has been established. Following this assumption, the present study focused ...

Mediating Role of Identity Styles and Learner Autonomy in Writing Ability

This study investigates the relation between EFL (English as a foreign language) learners’ autonomy, their identity styles, and their writing ability and it aims to show which independent variables have higher predicting power on variances in writing. To this end, 60 Iranian university EFL students at the language center of the researchers’ institution were selected to participate in this study...