Language and Social Identity

International Mother language Day is an ideal opportunity to highlight the importance of languages to group and individual identity, as the foundation for all social, economic and cultural life.

国际母语日是我们强调作为社会、经济与文化生活之基础的语言对于群体与个人的认同感所具有的重要意义的良好时机。

The paper uses the language of the Bai nationality to reveal the different expressive forms of their ethnic identity due to different historical, social and cultural situations.

我们以白族语言为例说明了语言的族群认同作用通常因为社会、历史和文化条件的差异而有不同的表现形式。

Language is regarded as an ethnic and social marker, and also an important component of identity and culture for many groups.

语言是一个民族和社会的标记，也是许多群体身份与文化构成的一个重要方面。