The 17th volume of the Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English eSeries, titled The Pragmatics and Stylistics of Identity Construction and Characterisation, has been published. Edited by Minna Nevala, Ursula Lutzky, Gabriella Mazzon and Carla Suhr, it discusses approaches to characterization and identity construction in a variety of fictional and authentic text types from different periods in the history of the English language.