Struggling between national pride and personal empowerment: The language ideologies held by Chinese university students towards China English

Pan, Zimeng

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2019.06.003

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“…Similarly, Modiano (2009) argued that non-native varieties of English should be viewed as manifestations of the linguistic and sociocultural identities of second language (L2) speakers. In their study on the L1 identities of Chinese English speakers, Pan (2019) found that the participants' favorable attitudes toward and acceptance of China English might be partly due to their strong cultural identities and national pride. Similarly, Gu (2010) and Fong (2017) stated that the increasing exposure to the English language would help Chinese people maintain their Chinese cultural and national identities and could increase their patriotism due to the successful integration of the English curriculum with Chinese culture and tradition.…”

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“How Is My English?”: Chinese University Students’ Attitudes Toward China English and Their Identity Construction

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Due to the spread of the English language in various domains and the fact that English is used as a global language, researchers and educators have started to rethink the models and aims of English language teaching in different settings. From the World Englishes (WE) perspective, this study investigated the attitudes of Chinese university students toward the localized variety of “China English,” as well as the students’ identity construction and negotiation during their English language learning journey. Data were collected through a questionnaire completed by 190 respondents and interviews conducted with 20 participants. The findings revealed the students’ positive attitudes toward China English and non-conformity to English as a native language (ENL). This further reflected the communicative function of English and the students’ interest in forming a Chinese cultural identity. However, the students also showed self-contradictory attitudes toward China English, as most did not want to be clearly identified as Chinese when using English. The data revealed some important reasons for this attitudinal conflict, including the belief that ENL is the standard form of English, as well as the students’ desire to develop an identity as competent second language learners of English. The findings suggest the importance of increasing awareness of the global spread of English and reforming English curricula and assessment in contexts where local varieties of English are emerging.

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“…Identity construction is another critical issue related to the use of English and ELT. The connection between language attitude and identity has been investigated because speakers' language attitudes are also guided by their cultural and social identities (Fang, 2020;Jenkins, 2007;Pan, 2019;Y. Wang, 2020).…”

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“…The highest disagreement percentage observed in the data (79%) was on item 3 as participants mentioned that they do not feel embarrassed when they see Saudi people speak the Saudi variety of English. This question might have provoked participants’ strong sense of national pride and affiliation with a speaker of their own, as was the case with Chinese students in Pan’s ( 2019 ) study.…”

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Attitudes Toward Saudi English: Decentering the Inner-Circle

Alzahrani

2022

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This article reports on the first study to investigate Saudis’ attitudes toward Saudi English (SauE). To situate Saudi speakers’ attitudes within the sociolinguistic ecology of language use, this study invited 80 Saudi participants to respond to an audio stimulus featuring Indian English alongside SauE in an attempt to more realistically depict the use of English use in Saudi Arabia. This task was carried out using an Interactive Verbal Guise Technique (IVGT), an innovative approach in which listeners evaluate English varieties as they are used in a naturally occurring interaction. To supplement this indirect method, participants were asked to fill out an attitude questionnaire consisting of closed-ended and open-ended questions. The findings of the IVGT showed that participants rated the Saudi speaker highly in both power and solidarity scales. The responses on the attitude questionnaire also revealed expressions of ownership and legitimacy of SauE. By decentering inner-circle Englishes in the study of language attitudes, the results of this study suggest that ecologically valid studies of language attitudes can yield results which express ownership in local varieties of English.

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“…Fourth, a more qualitative discourse analysis was then conducted to interpret and explain the functions of the identified metaphors. The traditional cultural values and modern cultural systems of China, as well as the social and cultural sensitivity of the researcher, all functioned in this process [10].…”

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Changes in Metaphor Use in Media Discourse: A Corpus-Assisted Diachronic Study (2007-2018)

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2022

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Media reports are often analyzed as a specialized variety of discourse that may reflect the social and cultural values of a nation, and metaphors always function to enhance the effectiveness of media discourse. Metaphors in news have long been explored by sociolinguistic researchers, but diachronic studies that examine how metaphor use changes over time are still limited. Following a corpus-assisted discourse analysis, this study examined the metaphorical characterizations of corruption-related concepts in three English-language news media of China (Global Times, China Daily, and People's Daily) over 12 years from 2007 to 2018. The findings can be summarized into the following four aspects: (1) The types of source domains were largely stable over time, i.e., WAR, POISON and DISEASE, DIRT, PLANT, and ANIMAL; (2) The mapping within a source domain changed diachronically; (3) Increased use of creative metaphors and enriched metaphorical depictions were found in the more recent years; and (4) The metaphors appeared to evoke more Chinese cultural schemas across time, which in turn provided contexts for further understandings of these metaphors. It is thus argued that the news discourse in China has been experiencing an ongoing process to employ more creative metaphors to express Chinese worldviews and cultural beliefs. It has also shown that a qualitative discourse analysis combined with quantitative corpus-assisted methods can provide effective research framework for an in-depth diachronic understanding of the changes in metaphor use. This study may be of assistance to researchers who are interested in media studies, sociolinguistics, and news writing.

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Struggling between national pride and personal empowerment: The language ideologies held by Chinese university students towards China English

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

“How Is My English?”: Chinese University Students’ Attitudes Toward China English and Their Identity Construction

“How Is My English?”: Chinese University Students’ Attitudes Toward China English and Their Identity Construction

Attitudes Toward Saudi English: Decentering the Inner-Circle

Changes in Metaphor Use in Media Discourse: A Corpus-Assisted Diachronic Study (2007-2018)

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