Identity in the discourse: Sunflower Student Movement as a case study
Key information
- Date
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2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
- Venue
- BBK MAL 351, Birkbeck, University of London
- Room
- BBK MAL 351
About this event
The research is based on the thesis 'language, identity and ideology: A critical discourse analysis of the Sunflower Student Movement', to explore the research question ‘How were the identities performed in the discourse of the movement?’ and share the preliminary findings. Identity is never an isolated subject, it is intersubjective and needs to interact with group and society. And discourse requires to be placed in a specific context, in order to make the discourse meaningful.
In the Sunflower Student Movement, we can see various expressions of people with different identities. Through their narrative strategies, word choice, sentence structure, and the perspectives, the discourse that people use to express their identities can be observed, as well as the strategy to persuade others to agree with them. The research attempts to investigate the discrepancy in discourse of people with different identities within the same linguistic and cultural circle, and what social phenomena these differences reflect.
Speaker's Biography: Liao, Pei-yu
Liao, Pei-yu
PhD student in Linguistics, SOAS University of London. My research aims to analyse the discourse of Sunflower Student Movement to explore the relationship of language, identity and ideology in Taiwan. I am also a Mandarin language teacher for 7 years. I have teaching experiences in London, Moscow and Taipei. In January 2022, I interviewed Ms. Jenny Bloomfield, the representative of the Australian Office Taipei, to discuss Taiwan’s policy of Bilingual 2030 and other Taiwan-Australia collaborative projects. My research interests include sociolinguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, language policy and second language teaching.