Abstract
Printed clothes have been treated as a special type of mobile linguistic landscape and wearing these clothes can be regarded as a conscious communication act. Previous studies have paid their attention on producers and printed clothes themselves, but wearer is also an essential step which should not be ignored in forming printed clothes as linguistic landscapes. In this study, wearers, as the "second" decision in printed clothes that they choose from existing printed texts to express themselves were explored, to see how different social and linguistic factors influence the final presentations of printed clothes. Applying an ethnographic approach, twenty three private items were collected from six Chinese young adults who are now locating in three global cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, and London, and interviews were conducted for exploring the agency of buying and wearing texts on their bodies. This paper gives a glance of young Chinese adults choosing or not choosing to wear clothes with texts to express their own identities, and how sociocultural factors lead to the results that Chinese, as their first language, is absent in this communication act. Finally, I suggest that the final presentations of these printed clothes do not only reflect wearers’ own language and cultural ideologies but also globalization of English from economic and cultural perspectives.
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Ruijie Li, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
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Conference: ACEID2023
Stream: Challenging & Preserving: Culture
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To cite this article:
Li R. (2023) “People Are Poison” – A Case Study of Chinese Young Adults’ Printed Clothes as Linguistic Landscape From Wearers’ Perspective ISSN: 2189-101X – The Asian Conference on Education & International Development 2023 Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-101X.2023.57
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-101X.2023.57
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