Thinking Style
Introduction
One’s identities can be various. I am a girl who is 19 years old, a Hong Kong people, a daughter, a university student. We have so many different identities. Some of it will change, some of it is stable and unchanging. So, before the explanation of the relationships between language and identity, the definition of identity have to be define first.
According to Abercrombie (2000),
” this is the sense of self, of personhood, of what kind of person one is. Identities always involve both sameness and difference.”
That is mean identity is a sense of belonging. I define who I am by such as where I belong. I live in Hong Kong and feel myself is belong to Hong Kong, so I will describe myself as a people in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, people in Hong Kong not the only identity I have. I have different identities in different areas. It makes both sameness and difference involve in identities. Since identity is fragmentary and in flux. Richard (2008) points out that
We have identified at least four ways in which identities can be conceptualized: * Master identities, which are relatively stable and unchanging: gender, ethnicity, age, national and regional origins * Personal identities, which refer to roles that people take on in a communicative context with specific other people. * Interactional identities, which are expected to be relatively stable and unique. Reference ways in which people talk and behave toward others: hotheaded, honest, forthright, reasonable, overbearing, a gossip. * Relational identities, which refer to the kind of relationship that a person enacts * with a particular conversational partner * In a specific situation.
Identity is thus a complicated notion. We have seen that some identities are stable, while others are dynamic and change with the context of interaction; and some identities result from individuals belonging to a social group while others are personal, and we like to feel that they are unique to a
One’s identities can be various. I am a girl who is 19 years old, a Hong Kong people, a daughter, a university student. We have so many different identities. Some of it will change, some of it is stable and unchanging. So, before the explanation of the relationships between language and identity, the definition of identity have to be define first.
According to Abercrombie (2000),
” this is the sense of self, of personhood, of what kind of person one is. Identities always involve both sameness and difference.”
That is mean identity is a sense of belonging. I define who I am by such as where I belong. I live in Hong Kong and feel myself is belong to Hong Kong, so I will describe myself as a people in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, people in Hong Kong not the only identity I have. I have different identities in different areas. It makes both sameness and difference involve in identities. Since identity is fragmentary and in flux. Richard (2008) points out that
We have identified at least four ways in which identities can be conceptualized: * Master identities, which are relatively stable and unchanging: gender, ethnicity, age, national and regional origins * Personal identities, which refer to roles that people take on in a communicative context with specific other people. * Interactional identities, which are expected to be relatively stable and unique. Reference ways in which people talk and behave toward others: hotheaded, honest, forthright, reasonable, overbearing, a gossip. * Relational identities, which refer to the kind of relationship that a person enacts * with a particular conversational partner * In a specific situation.
Identity is thus a complicated notion. We have seen that some identities are stable, while others are dynamic and change with the context of interaction; and some identities result from individuals belonging to a social group while others are personal, and we like to feel that they are unique to a