Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan

Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan

13. On the positive formation of Chinese group identity

Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan

Dániel Z Kádár [+-]
Dalian University of Foreign Studies, China and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Daniel Z. Kadar (D.Litt, FHEA, PhD) is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Pragmatics Research at Dalian University of Foreign Studies. He is also Research Professor of Pragmatics and Head of Research Centre at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been author and editor of more than 20 books, published by academic publishers of world-leading standing such as Equinox, Cambridge, Palgrave and Bloomsbury. He has also published a large number of studies in high-impact journals such as Journal of Politeness Research and Journal of Pragmatics. His most recent works include Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction (Cambridge, 2017), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic Politeness (edited with Jonathan Culpeper and Michael Haugh, Palgrave, 2017), and Understanding Politeness (with Michael Haugh, Cambridge, 2013). He is Editor (with Xinren Chen) of Equinox’s East Asian Pragmatics journal.

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The aim of this study is to explore the discursive ways in which group identity was formed in a historical Chinese Community of Practice (Wenger 1998).From a theoretical perspective, this is a pilot study in the sense that it connects current socio-pragmatic theories with the research of Chinese data, instead of treating identity formation in a traditional, sinological way. Along with this theoretical stance, the present chapter contributes also to historical pragmatics due to the fact that in diachronic studies the formation of discursive identity is somewhat neglected. The second part of the analysis in this chapter approaches identity formation discourse from the perspective of politeness research: it devotes special attention to politeness as a “discursive resource” (Thornborrow 2002) in group-identity formation activities. It is argued that along with fulfilling its primary discursive function, politeness can also serve the secondary goal of reinforcing (in-)group relationships

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Kádár, Daniel Z.. 13. On the positive formation of Chinese group identity. Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 271-291 Jan 2013. ISBN 9781845536329. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20076. Date accessed: 26 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20076. Jan 2013

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