Re-exploring Language development and identity construction of Hui nationality in China

A Sociosemiotic Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID4473558
AuthorsXiaolin Yang (0000-0002-0121-863X, Ningxia University , Yinchuan , China), Jian Li (0009-0001-8947-8064, Zhejiang Gongshang University , Hangzhou , China, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume2020
Issue236-237
Pages453-476
Publication date2020-12-16
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/sem-2020-0034
OpenAlexW3096510631
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

The present study attempts to investigate and analyze the relationship between the language used by the Hui nationality, its social situation, and identity construction from a sociosemiotic perspective, and makes a further discussion on the process of identity construction via language convergence, divergence, and maintenance. It goes further to put forward the distinction between social identity/ethnic identity and group identity/personal identity as well as the roles that language convergence and divergence have played within these identity constructions, proposes that language convergence and divergence are the two crucial language strategies utilized by people in code switching, therefrom constructing a dynamic balanced identity system recursively

Aesthetics · China · Convergence (economics) · Cultural identity · Divergence (linguistics) · Economics · Ethnic group · Identity (music) · Identity formation · Immigration · Linguistics · Nationality · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Self-concept · Social group · Social identity approach · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology