Cultural Conceptualisations of Collective Self-representation Among Chinese Immigrants

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the linguistic features found in speaking about ‘oneself’ in Chinese to explore the cultural meanings of the speakers’ identities as immigrant Chinese. The tools of Cultural Linguistics can be usefully applied to the exploration of cultural conceptualizations reflected in the language of migration and people’s narrative accounts of being a Chinese person in Australia. It is hoped that the study will contribute to scholarship by analyzing the cultural schemas that play a significant role in conceptualizing immigration and immigrant identity among contemporary Chinese in the cross-cultural context. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)