Cantonese with an Accent" Identity and Symbolic Power in Guangdong

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10.2991/ichssr-17.2017.12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cantonese, Language identity, Symbolic power.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the role of Cantonese in the identity reconstruction process of migrant people, and its relationship with symbolic power. To aid my analysis, I conducted 22 open-ended interviews; most of the subjects were migrant people who came from remote areas. Their experience showed that during their adaptation process, Cantonese works as a symbolic mark to distinguish speakers' identity and influences their social and economic positions.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Wei Wang
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TI  - Cantonese with an Accent" Identity and Symbolic Power in Guangdong
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 3rd International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2017)
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