Identity construction of Hong Kong returnees: stance taking and self-labelling in narratives

• Autores: Hon Leung Clement Chan
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 281, 2023, págs. 129-159
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study examines how Hong Kong returnees negotiate and construct their transnational identities in their post-sojourn period via two indexical cues, stance taking, and self-labelling. Based on the narratives about remigration, this study investigates how returnees construct their identities discursively by taking stances to evaluate and align with sociocultural values and using self-labelling to index their transnational identities in their post-sojourn period. In doing so, this study hopes to contribute to the existing migration studies on Hong Kong returnees in terms of language and identity construction.