Intersubjectivity. The phenomenology of pronouns: you as a me of the Other. Person as a grammatical and social category. A person who is able to speak and use grammar.
Social semiotics: language as a sign system - the classification of signs: icons, symbol, index. Biosemiotics: indexicality as corporeality. The point of view of reference linguistics - deictic as the opposite of symbolic.
Language constructions of people and social distance. Language and the social function of politeness.
Language and social position: personal, social and gender deixis.
The poetics of politics: genre, intertextuality and framing.
Public space as an arena of identity: the construction of social identities and mediated communication.
The philosophical aspects of identity: body, language, community and the world.