In:“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition
Yanying Lu
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 10] 2019
► pp. 131–152
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Chapter 7Conceptualisations of the migrant identity
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Published online: 18 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.10.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.10.c7
Abstract
Chapter 7 explores the collective conceptualisations of the migrant identity as they emerge in social
interactions. As revealed and discussed in the previous chapters, the
participating Chinese immigrants display a strong sense of self-awareness in
the cross-cultural comparative context. Drawing on comments from the current
participants, it can be said that negotiating this self-awareness has also
become an important aspect of constructing their migrant identity in
Australia. Some of them are of the opinion that they are able to see issues
and reasons not easily seen by non-Chinese or Chinese people from China.
Participants turn their cross-cultural experiences into knowledge upon which
they can build their unique sense of being as a migrated individual of
Chinese origin in Australia.
Article outline
- 7.1A bounded area
- 7.1.1A cultural group is a bounded area
- 7.1.2The exclusiveness of the bounded area
- 7.2Viewpoints and perspectives in space
- 7.2.1The space in discourse
- 7.2.2Social proximity across cultural groups
- 7.2.3From the perspective of women zhebian ‘we here’
- 7.2.4From the perspective of “others”
- 7.3The exemplar identity
- 7.4The exemplar identity and beyond
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