"Self" in language, culture, and cognition

"This book explores socio-cultural meanings of 'self' in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity. If language, culture and cognition...

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Main Author: Lu, Yanying
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts ; v. 10.
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Migrating the Chinese self
  • Self-referential pronouns in Mandarin Chinese
  • Performing identities : presenting the flawed self
  • Becoming Chinese : a discursive exploration
  • Chinese conceptualisations of personhood
  • The self within : on the Chinese embodied self
  • Conceptualisations of the migrant identity
  • From perceptual to socio-cultural cognition.