Journal Articles
Language choice and identity construction in peer interactions: Insights from a multilingual university in Hong Kong
- Language choice and identity construction in peer interactions: Insights from a multilingual university in Hong Kong
- Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 32(1), 17-31, 2011
- Routledge
- 2011
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Post-Secondary Education
- Informed by linguistic ecological theory and the notion of identity, this study investigates language uses and identity construction in interactions among students with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in a multilingual university. Individual and focus-group interviews were conducted with two groups of students: Hong Kong (HK) and mainland Chinese students. The findings indicate that, while different languages position their speakers in different symbolic spaces, language users employ a variety of languages for different identification purposes, and exercise symbolic power in various ways in order to be heard and respected. It is also found that language often plays a substantial role in achieving a sense of intimacy among group members and that the huge inherent differences, despite the umbrella of 'unity' between HK and mainland China, lead to a mutual non-identification between HK and mainland students. The study extends understandings of the interconnected relations of languages and context. [Copyright of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2010.532876]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 01434632
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/8b29bb84
- 2011-06-10
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