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Title:
Chinese Semiotic Studies
Publication:
Berlin Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter
Scope:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
2198-9613
ZDB-ID:
2777988-9 ZDB
VÖBB-Katalog:
15993769
Keywords:
Zeitschrift
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Sprache
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400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
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Title:
Chinese Semiotic Studies
Publication:
Berlin Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter
Scope:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
2198-9613
ZDB-ID:
2777988-9 ZDB
VÖBB-Katalog:
15993769
Keywords:
Zeitschrift
Classification:
Sprache
DDC Group:
400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Collection:
Sprache
Copyright:
Rights reserved
Accessibility:
Eingeschränkter Zugang mit Nutzungsbeschränkungen

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Author:
Xia, Zihan
Title:
Negotiation of identity and indexical order in linguistic landscapes in Hong Kong: a comparison among Central, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Sheung Shui
Publication:
Berlin Boston, Mass.: ˜Deœ Gruyter, 2025
Language:
English
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Abstract: This study explores the relationship between linguistic landscapes, language choice, and regional identity, with a focus on the cultural and historical context of Hong Kong. Through the collection and analysis of photos from three locations, Central, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Sheung Shui, scaled in a center–periphery continuum, I demonstrate the difference in regional identity construction through the language choices in the respective linguistic landscapes. By applying indexical order to linguistic landscape study, this study shows how presupposed indexicalities of language are applied to construct distinct identities, driven by language ideology. Furthermore, it is found that all three locations exhibit a degree of internationalism, as evidenced by the high proportion of multilingual signs. The intensity of internationalism varies across locations, with Central being constructed as the most international, Tsim Sha Tsui as a blend of local and international, and Sheung Shui as the most local. This research contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between linguistic landscapes, language ideology, and identity construction, shedding light on how indexical order can map out the language ideology and its influence on the regional identity of Hong Kong.
Scope:
Online-Ressource
Note:
Open Access
Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
Keywords:
indexicality ; language choice ; language ideology ; regional identity
Classification:
Sprache
Sozialwissenschaften
URN:
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2510230658213.384277323170
Collection:
Sprache
Sozialwissenschaften
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CC BY
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Free Access
Author:
Xia, Zihan
Title:
Negotiation of identity and indexical order in linguistic landscapes in Hong Kong: a comparison among Central, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Sheung Shui
Publication:
Berlin Boston, Mass.: ˜Deœ Gruyter, 2025
Language:
English
Information:
Abstract: This study explores the relationship between linguistic landscapes, language choice, and regional identity, with a focus on the cultural and historical context of Hong Kong. Through the collection and analysis of photos from three locations, Central, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Sheung Shui, scaled in a center–periphery continuum, I demonstrate the difference in regional identity construction through the language choices in the respective linguistic landscapes. By applying indexical order to linguistic landscape study, this study shows how presupposed indexicalities of language are applied to construct distinct identities, driven by language ideology. Furthermore, it is found that all three locations exhibit a degree of internationalism, as evidenced by the high proportion of multilingual signs. The intensity of internationalism varies across locations, with Central being constructed as the most international, Tsim Sha Tsui as a blend of local and international, and Sheung Shui as the most local. This research contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between linguistic landscapes, language ideology, and identity construction, shedding light on how indexical order can map out the language ideology and its influence on the regional identity of Hong Kong.
Scope:
Online-Ressource
Note:
Open Access
Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
Keywords:
indexicality ; language choice ; language ideology ; regional identity
Classification:
Sprache
Sozialwissenschaften
URN:
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2510230658213.384277323170
Collection:
Sprache
Sozialwissenschaften
Copyright:
CC BY
Accessibility:
Free Access

Contents

Table of contents

  • Chinese Semiotic Studies (Rights reserved)
  • Kitsch, fandom, and the rise and fall of authenticity: an existential exploration / Moeller, Hans-Georg (CC BY)
  • Surveillance is only a symptom: artificial intelligence and the systematic enforcement of profile-based identity / D’Ambrosio, Paul J. (CC BY)
  • Toward a trans* theorization of Chinese danmei / Yang, Ling (CC BY)
  • Upliving: lessons from Chinese semiotics / Leone, Massimo (CC BY)
  • Apophasis, cataphasis, and the distinctions between unsignifiables / Fried, Daniel (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ semiotics of flourishing: unearthing a Daoist phenomenology of dynamic attunement / Michael, Thomas (CC BY)
  • A semiotics of freedom: “fabulous” freedom and the agential self in narration as dialogic abduction / Lee, Yunhee (CC BY)
  • Frontmatter (Rights reserved)
  • Exploring poetic effects through the lens of conversational implicature in Seamus Heaney’s poetry / Liu, Fengguang (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ construction of Mexicanidad: literary representations of the Mexican Revolution / Li, Kunfei (CC BY)
  • Post-pandemic city branding: multimodal identity construction of Wuhan through a promotional video / Jia, Lili (CC BY)
  • A piece of Thailand recontextualized in Hong Kong: a linguistic and semiotic landscape account of “Little Thailand” in Kowloon city / Gu, Chonglong (CC BY)
  • Orchestrating mobility: a study on the linguistic landscape of the Seac Pai Van Park in Macau through a language–spatial relationships lens / Jun-Jie Ma, Everard (CC BY)
  • A semiotic inquiry on the other, othering, and otherization processes / Yurtseven, Hilal (CC BY)
  • Semiotic stratification of pine-cypress: from arboreal totems to confucian ethics / Yang, Ji (CC BY)
  • Natural but not ziran: knowing enough and mastering cessation in the Laozi / O’Neill, Rory (CC BY)
  • Frontmatter (Rights reserved)
  • ˜Theœ magic of repetition: the narrative presentation of time in Yeats’s poetry / Shu, Linghong (CC BY)
  • An illustration of the polysemiosis of jade as a sign vehicle in traditional Chinese culture – an exemplar of formal and essential intuition / Yang, Zhihui (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ semiotics of lie and lying: a journey to hyperreality / Wąsik, Elżbieta (CC BY)
  • EduMeme: using internet memes in foreign language education from an edusemiotic perspective / Topal, Ibrahim Halil (CC BY)
  • Negotiation of identity and indexical order in linguistic landscapes in Hong Kong: a comparison among Central, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Sheung Shui / Xia, Zihan (CC BY)
  • “Invitational” metaphors in China Women’s News: gender egalitarianism, feminist axiology, and female autonomy / Li, Ke (CC BY)
  • On the naturalist foundations of any truly general theory of signs / Raposa, Michael L. (CC BY)
  • Frontmatter (Rights reserved)
  • Reinterpreting Uexküll’s concept of Umwelt: bridging science, humanities, and arts with harmony / Han, Lei (CC BY)
  • In the stillness of the fullness of time: relations of immediacy and simultaneity in the semiotics of Peirce and Saussure / Ness, Sally Ann (CC BY)
  • Biology of modeling: revisiting Humberto Maturana’s philosophy / Druzhinin, Andrey S. (CC BY)
  • Lao (old) + surname: why do Chinese address non-old people with “old”? / Liu, Xiaohong (CC BY)
  • Frontmatter (Rights reserved)
  • Biosemiotics, code biology, and operational interpretation / Zhou, Liqian (CC BY)
  • Fear, death, and love: a cultural semiotic view of animal symbols in Dürrenmatt’s The Dog / Zhu, Wenxi (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ myth of the total semiotic fact / Pablé, Adrian (CC BY)
  • Biosemiotics and literature / Lang, Peter M. (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ role of logical sentiments in moral creativity: toward narrative reality in a Peircean semiotic-pragmatic approach / Lee, Yunhee (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ multimodality of complaint: a case study of Chinese EFL learners / Sun, Xin (CC BY)
  • Frontmatter (Rights reserved)
  • Melancholic and monastic: moss as a symbol in Chinese literature / Peng, Jia (CC BY)
  • Umwelt building in creative education: exploring interdisciplinary pedagogies in the module AcrossRCA / Jardim, Marilia (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ essential difference between English and Chinese as explored from a blank-sign perspective / Wang, Jun (CC BY)
  • Legal idealism of pre-Qin Confucians: tracing the ideas of Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi / Song, Lijue (CC BY)
  • Regulated verse and semiotic structure: a poem by Li Shangyin (李商隠) / Hopkins, John A. F. (CC BY)
  • Exploring gender differences in the perception of coffee shop signs / Sidawi Za’tari, Yasmeen Osama (CC BY)
  • Coffee shop-naming practices in Shanghai / Liao, Cecily Ran (CC BY)
  • A semiotic grammar of Vedic Sanskrit / Bonta, Steven (CC BY)
  • A study of the commodification of multilingualism in four cafés in China / Yan, Xi (CC BY)
  • On the syntax and semantics of sluicing in Mandarin Chinese / Wang, Chengdong (CC BY)
  • Multi-source symbiosis of textual meaning / Zeng, Jun (CC BY)
  • Comparative semiotics of womanhood: portrayal of Chinese and Pakistani women in contemporary paintings / Riaz, Mehvish (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ relation of Peirce’s abduction to inference to the best explanation / Jiang, Yi (CC BY)
  • Biosemiotics’ greatest potential contribution to biology / Sherman, Jeremy (CC BY)
  • Lotmanian referentiality and (cultural) semantics / Rodríguez Higuera, Claudio J. (CC BY)
  • Frontmatter (Rights reserved)
  • Sparks from the Clouds: a modern Buddhist poem / Hopkins, John A. F. (CC BY)
  • Indexical order and language ideology in the linguistic landscape of tourism in Hong Kong: Chungking Mansions and its surroundings / Wang, Jinjun (CC BY)
  • Linguistic landscaping from above in China: scale-making and language ideologies / Shang, Guowen (CC BY)
  • Political discourse and semiotics / Çanakpınar, Betül (CC BY)
  • Metaphorical meanings of color symbols in literature / Zhao, Qian (CC BY)
  • A semiotic view of symbol and identity in the film Farewell My Concubine / Zhu, Wenxi (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ role of the normative sciences in the evolution of Peirce’s pragmatism / Liszka, James Jakób (CC BY)
  • Pragmatism, logic, and manuscript R318 / Jappy, Tony (CC BY)
  • Abai’s poetry in Eco’s semiotic light / Khassenova, Roza (CC BY)
  • Frontmatter (Rights reserved)
  • Frontmatter (Rights reserved)
  • Rational intuition: a study on semiotic subjectivity / Zhang, Jie (CC BY)
  • Transmuting the painterly sign / Ding, Ersu (CC BY)
  • Scaled semiotic resources in informal learning on Chinese social networking sites / Meng, Yanli (CC BY)
  • Heroines in the East and the West: a comparative semiotic study of female imagery in the anti-pandemic discourse of Italy and China / Dolcini, Nevia (CC BY)
  • Open community in Peirce’s pragmatism / Chen, Jining (CC BY)
  • Extending the domain of interpersonal rhetoric in linguistic pragmatics through interactional properties of communication participants / Wąsik, Elżbieta Magdalena (CC BY)
  • Elder Biaoqing: investigating the indexicalities of memes on Chinese social media / Lu, Ying (CC BY)
  • Toward an ethnographic materialist semiotics: spatial scope, indexicality, and chronotope in a Chinese academic institution / Dong, Jie (CC BY)
  • Religious modeling of a natural disaster: a cultural semiotic study / Nazaruddin, Muzayin (CC BY)
  • Football statues and semiotics / Sørensen, Bent (CC BY)
  • Enchantment of things in the Chinese literary narrative tradition / Tang, Weisheng (CC BY)
  • Frontmatter (Rights reserved)
  • Peirce’s philosophy of language / Zhu, Zhifang (CC BY)

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