Igoudin, A. L. (2011). Asian American girls who speak African American English: A subcultural language identity. In Du Bois, Inke, and Nicole Baumgarten (Eds.), Multilingual Identities: New Global Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. This study explores the language attitudes and language use among three Asian American adolescent girls who integrate some elements of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) into their everyday speech. A group interview was conducted and the data gathered from
thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." Dating back to Elizabethan Literature, self-identity has always been deemed as essential. Fast forward to modern times, the authors of more contemporary works have taken the same concept of identity but have revealed the way actions taken can influence an individual's understanding of themselves. For example, in John Howard Griffin's memoir, Black Like Me and Wes Moore's memoir, The Other Wes Moore:
perceived, social support reflects overall feelings that one is cared for, accepted and that in difficult times one will have others to turn to who will provide assistance and help (Sarason, Sarason and Pierce 1990; Davis, Morris and Kraus 1998). Clara et al. suggest that it is the perception of global social support that appears to provide a buffering
regard to social action as it applies to the case study of the violent strike and killing of mine workers at Marikana in August 2012. On the 16th August 2012, there was a massacre of 34 workers by the South African state police at Lonmim Marikana. This essay aims to explain how the Social Identity Theory accounts for the violence in South African communities, with particular reference to the Marikana massacre. I am going to explain the concept of identity and show that the Social Identity Theory is
In the world that we live in today, social norms are guidelines that one must behave the way that we are expected to. However, not all norms are understandable and not all norms are irrational, but many of our norms are created by a group of people who attract a great deal of attention from the media. These people are known as celebrities. Furthering along with this statement, these two articles take different approaches toward the same topic in order to explain how these celebrities, who can be
of belonging and define who we are. When we are at the disadvantage situation, we think a lot more about our identities, and it implies who we are not. Different societies have different ways to determine what is considered to be normal and abnormal and what is acceptable and unacceptable. Religion, culture, politics, and socioeconomic classes have significant influences on defining social norm within the community or the nation. In order to find a sense of belonging, the members of the community
The social identity is “a person’s sense of who they are based on their group membership” (McLeod, 2008). Belonging to a group allows an individual to build self-esteem and pride, and provides them with a feeling of social belonging. When an individual becomes a part of a group that group is considered to be that individual’s in-group, anyone who is not in their
use and identity are conceptualized rather differently in a sociocultural perspective on human action. Here, identity is rather viewed as socially constituted; a reflexive, dynamic product of the social, historical and political contexts of an individual’s lived experiences. This view has helped to set innovative directions for research in applied linguistics. The purpose of this article is to lay out some of the more significant assumptions embodied in contemporary understandings of identity and its
country cultivated through a collective ‘national identity’, defined as the conception of a country as a distinct entity with collective symbols like its culture, memories, values or traditions. Singaporeans today are unable to articulate what being Singaporean means (Mahbubani, 2013). The absence of a widely held national identity hinders the development of nationalism. This lack of nationalism has been
particular social and cultural settings and it is used and understood in different way in different social and cultural settings. The notions of discourse community and speech community influence what we say and how we say it in terms of the language variety we choose in writing or speaking; the speaker’s social class and social networks (generally speaking, the social class of the participants in any communication) also affect their use of language. These participants (of different social classes have