Download or read book The Language of Belonging written by U. Meinhof and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examines a significant aspect of contemporary social life: cultural identities and our linguistic means of constructing them. It combines a theoretical re-assessment of processes of identification with case studies of the discourses of three-generation families living in split-border communities along the former 'Iron Curtain'.