Negotiating Local and National Identifications: Hong Kong Identity Surveys 1996–2006

Eric, K. W.; Fung, Anthony

doi:10.1080/01292980701306555

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“…A recent study on the multiple identities Hong Kong people possess -Hongkonger, Chinese, and Hong Kong Chinese -found that the Chinese identity component has increased after 1997 and attributed such increase to the reunification of Hong Kong with China (Ng and Lai 2011). Similar observation has been reported elsewhere (Chong 2013;Ma and Fung 2007). The construction or emphasizing of the identity of a Chinese identity resulting from the divergent linguistic behavior of the CP could also be interpreted in terms of the CP's effort to "incur a healthy sense of group identity" by striking a delicate balance between convergence and divergence (Giles and Ogay 2007: 297).…”

Section: Reasons For Convergent Communicative Accommodationsupporting

confidence: 75%

Evaluating while justifying intercultural requests

2014

Intercultural Pragmatics

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Research into the speech-act request performed by people of different cultures operationalized at levels including nation, community of practice, and L2 speakers has identified and discussed sets of culture-related request-making behaviors. The findings of this research suggest that differences exist among cultures in request-making behaviors concerning the use and choice of request directness and strategies, rhetorical approaches, and internal and external modifications. The present study, with an intercultural orientation, focused on an external request modification element -grounder, an element that can function to build solidarity while justifying the request. The lexicogrammar used by both Chinese and non-Chinese professionals in textualizing the grounders accompanying their intercultural English requests made via email was analyzed using Appraisal Theory. The use of evaluative language in intercultural request grounders was then compared with that in intracultural ones. The findings indicate that while both Chinese and non-Chinese professionals demonstrated positive accommodative evaluative behavior in the construction of the discourse of intercultural request grounders, the non-Chinese professionals showed a stronger willingness to accommodate than the Chinese professionals. Possible reasons for the accommodation behavior demonstrated by the professionals of the two different cultures were offered and discussed.

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Section: Reasons For Convergent Communicative Accommodationsupporting

confidence: 75%

Evaluating while justifying intercultural requests

2014

Intercultural Pragmatics

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“…Although Hong Kong has strongly embraced capitalism and become a modern and prosperous financial and industrial power, surveys show that Hongkongers have a strong and increasing Chinese cultural identity (Ma and Fung 2007). Part of this cultural identity is the acceptance of the extremely rigid gender roles that are a central feature of Confucian philosophy (Lee 1999(Lee , 2003.…”

Section: Changing Women's Rolesmentioning

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Global Body and Muscle Satisfaction Among College Men in the United States and Hong Kong-China

2010

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Body dissatisfaction was studied in college men from a central university in Hong Kong (n=109) and a midAtlantic university in the U.S. (n=114). Hong Kong men had lower global body satisfaction than U.S. men, but had greater satisfaction with muscularity, lower drive for muscularity, and associated fewer positive attributes with muscularity. A large majority of both Hong Kong and U.S. men were dissatisfied with their level of muscularity. Results for global body dissatisfaction were consistent with reports from studies indicating that East Asian women have lower body satisfaction than U.S. women. Results from the measures of muscularity were consistent with Louie's (2002) description of the Chinese masculinity. Implications for sociocultural and feminist theory were discussed.

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“…Yet another project in the decade that follows the reversion of the sovereignty from 1996 to 2006, however, registered a gradually visible shift in proportions of the categories (Ma & Fung, 2007). In this set of studies, about a quarter of respondents each identified themselves as Hongkonger or Chinese respectively, some 30% self identified as Hongkonger and also Chinese, and some 10% as Chinese and also Hongkonger.…”

Section: Hongkongers' Cultural Identitymentioning

confidence: 77%

Cultural identity as a production in process

Chen

2011

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The type of identity most salient in intercultural communication is probably cultural identity, also a major issue in intercultural communication studies. This study adopts a dialectical perspective and approaches cultural identity as a dynamic production in and through intercultural contact and interaction. Semistructured interviews of educated young Hongkongers turned out accounts of cultural identity along with their language use in day-to-day activities. These provided indirect access to some lived experience of people in a culturally special society. The study identifies dialectics evident in the production of cultural identity and uncovers ways people deal with dialectic tension in the process.

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Negotiating Local and National Identifications: Hong Kong Identity Surveys 1996–2006

Cited by 83 publications

References 3 publications

Evaluating while justifying intercultural requests

Evaluating while justifying intercultural requests

Global Body and Muscle Satisfaction Among College Men in the United States and Hong Kong-China

Cultural identity as a production in process

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