"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lu, Yanying, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company [2019]
Colección:Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009762727006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.