Re-exploring Language development and identity construction of Hui nationality in China: a sociosemiotic perspective

Semiotica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (236-237) ◽  
pp. 453-476
Author(s):  
Xiaolin Yang ◽  
Jian Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Convergence And Divergence ◽  
Language Strategies ◽  
Identity System ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe 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.

Signaling socially responsible consumption among millennials: an identity-based perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Johnson ◽  
Veena Chattaraman
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Socially Responsible Consumption ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Using identity theory, this paper aims to explore differences in socially responsible signaling behavior based on the salience of a personal or social identity. Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modeling was used to study the relationship among identity commitment, salience, and signaling behavior. Findings Findings revealed personal identity salience mediated the relationship between socially responsible commitment and socially responsible social-signaling consumption behavior. Practical implications The results of the study suggest that Millennials engage in socially responsible activities as a result of a salient personal identity. Millennials use socially responsible behavior to signal their benevolence to themselves and others. Originality/value This is the first research that has examined the relationship between Millennials’ socially responsible consumption behavior and a salient personal or social identity.

Identity Attachment Influences Contemporary Dancers’ Career Transition

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Hanna Pohjola
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Career Transition ◽  
Vocational Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Life Change ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self And Identity ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The career of a dancer in Western concert dance is often short, owing to factors such as family, injuries, low level of income, change of interests, unemployment, ageing, and frustration with working conditions. In this field, career transition has been portrayed as a multi-layered and comprehensive life change in which one of the key features is the loss of the identity as an artist. Despite this general understanding, there is little research on dancers’ identity and its possible relation to career transition. The paper focuses on describing the relationship between a dancer’s identity and injury based career transition through concepts of self and identity drawn from social psychology. The concepts of the self and identity are described through the metaphor of a circle that consists of three layers: the innermost (the self), the middle (the personal identity) and the outermost (the social identity) layer. In the article, the function of these layers and their inter-relationships in dancer identity is approached by interpreting stories constructed from the interviews of three former Finnish contemporary dance artists. The paper reveals that the vocational identity of the interviewed dancers is emphasized differently. This suggests a connection especially between the occupational (e.g. social) identity and the personal identity. In relation to career transition, attachment to dancer identity by the interviewees is described either as a facilitating or hindering factor. Thus the article suggests that the attachment to dancer identity does bear significance to the process of the life change of dancers.

scholarly journals KEMATIAN DAN PERASAAN KEHILANGAN: KONSTRUKSI IDENTITAS QUEER DALAM EMPAT KARYA YOSHIMOTO (Death And Sense of Loss: Queer Identity Construction in Four Yoshimoto’s Works)

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Andi Abd khaliq Syukur ◽  
Aquarini Priyatna ◽  
Lina Meilinawati Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Gender Construction ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Queer Identity ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Death And Loss ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Relationship

Empat novelet Yoshimoto, yaitu Kitchen (1988), Moonlight Shadow (1988), Hardboiled (2001), dan Hardluck (2001) menghadirkan kematian dan perasaan kehilangan di awal narasi. Kematian dan perasaan kehilangan membuka probabilitas baru sebagai bagian konstruksi identitas queer, seperti kematian sebagai pemutusan matrix heteroseksual, perasaan kehilangan sebagai perubahan identitas gender, penerimaan orang asing sebagai anggota keluarga, hubungan bersifat inses, homoseksualitas perempuan, transgenderisme, dan perubahan peran dalam anggota keluarga. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menganalisis cara kematian dan perasaan kehilangan membuka probabilitas identitas queer dalam narasi Yoshimoto. Sedangkan untuk melihat bentuk identitas queer, penelitian ini menggunakan teori performativitas dari Butler untuk menunjukkan ketaksaan identitas gender dan seks.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan kematian dapat membuka probabilitias yang mengarah pada penghadiran identitas queer dan performativitas identitas queer menyajikan performativitas tokoh yang terus-menerus berubah, bergerak, dan tidak memiliki pusat.Abstract: Four novelettes of Yoshimoto’s, which are Kitchen (1988), Moonlight Shadow (1988), Hardboiled (2001), and Hard Luck (2001) bring death and sense of loss in the beginning of the narrative. The death and sense of loss give new probabilities as parts of the queer identity constructions, for instance the death as the partition of the heterosexual matrix, the loss feelings as a gender identity alteration, agree to accept foreigners as members of the family, the relationship tend to be incest, female homosexuality, transgenderism, and change the family members role. This study conducted to analyze the way of death and loss feelings give probabilities of queer identity in the Yoshimoto’s narration.As for seeing theshape ofqueeridentity, The research applies Butler’s thinking on gender performativity to analyze how ambiguous sexual and gender identities are presented. The research finds that the probabilityof deathcanopen upleads toqueeridentity and  the analysis of queer identity’s performativity on character’s performativity in the novelettes renders it possible for sexual and gender construction to be constantly changing and everlastingly displaced performances.

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

The Need to Belong and the Relationship Between Loneliness and Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 194-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freda-Marie Hartung ◽  
Britta Renner
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Health State ◽  
Need To Belong ◽  
First Year University ◽  
Perceived Social Isolation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Humans are social animals; consequently, a lack of social ties affects individuals’ health negatively. However, the desire to belong differs between individuals, raising the question of whether individual differences in the need to belong moderate the impact of perceived social isolation on health. In the present study, 77 first-year university students rated their loneliness and health every 6 weeks for 18 weeks. Individual differences in the need to belong were found to moderate the relationship between loneliness and current health state. Specifically, lonely students with a high need to belong reported more days of illness than those with a low need to belong. In contrast, the strength of the need to belong had no effect on students who did not feel lonely. Thus, people who have a strong need to belong appear to suffer from loneliness and become ill more often, whereas people with a weak need to belong appear to stand loneliness better and are comparatively healthy. The study implies that social isolation does not impact all individuals identically; instead, the fit between the social situation and an individual’s need appears to be crucial for an individual’s functioning.

Organization of Individual Counselling of Children Brought up in Foster Families (on the example of the «Family» Centre»)

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Aygul Fazlyeva ◽  
Aliya Akhmetshina
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Individual Counseling ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Individual Counselling ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

Children, brought up in foster families, experience various problems (diffi culties in interpersonal relationships with parents, diffi culties in communicating with peers, emotional instability), which lead to confl icts, quarrels, running away from home, destructive phenomena, etc. One of the eff ective forms of working with children brought up in foster families is individual counselling. Individual counselling is used by various specialists (psychologists, educators, psychotherapists), where a special place is taken by a social educator. His or her activity involves the implementation of social-protective, preventive, educational, informational, advisory functions. In the process of organizing individual counseling, the social educator takes into account the social situation of the family and the child, personal characteristics, social conditions, social and cultural characteristics and the nature of the relationship with the social environment. To organize individual counseling, a social educator needs to master various and eff ective techniques, and take into account a number of recommendations. An analysis of the literature and practical socio-pedagogical experience led to an understanding of the insuffi cient degree of elaboration of this issue. The purpose of this article was the solution to this problem.

Naive, connected, and counselor tween girl identity groups: Consumption practices and social identity constructions within consumer culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 146954052110160
Author(s):  
Tiziana Brenner Beauchamp Weber ◽  
Eliane C. Francisco Maffezzolli
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Consumer Identity ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Identity Groups

This research identifies the relationship between consumption practices and the construction of social identity among tweens in a Brazilian context. Using consumer culture theory and social identity theory, we employed 80 h of observation, 9 interviews, and projective techniques with fifteen girls. Three social identity groups were acknowledged: naive, connected, and counselors. These groups revealed different identity projects, such as the integration and maintenance within the social group of current belonging, the access to the social group with the greater distinctions, the generation of differentiable and positive distinctions (both intra- and intergroups), and the expression and consolidation of identity and its respective consumption practices. This research contributes to the consumption literature that relates to consumer identity projects. The findings reveal a current resignification of girlhood and exposes tweens’ consumption practices as a direct mechanism of the expression and construction of their social identities. These are mechanisms of social identity construction as mediated by group relations through the processes of access, maintenance, integration, differentiation, and distinction.

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