The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity "provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective.Forty-one chapters are organised into five sections perspectives informing language and identity studieskey issues for researchers doing language and identity studiescategories and dimensions of identityidentity in language learning contexts and among language learnersfuture directions for language and identity studies in applied linguisticsWritten by specialists from around the world, each chapter will introduce a topic in language and identity studies, provide a concise and critical survey, in which the importance and relevance to applied linguists is explained and include further reading.The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity is an essential purchase for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and TESOL. Advisory David Block (Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats/ Universitat de Lleida, Spain); John Joseph (University of Edinburgh); Angel Lin (Hong Kong University);); Bonny Norton (University of British Colombia, Canada); Tope Omoniyi (University of Roehampton) and Pia Pichler (Goldsmith s College, University of London)