Analysing Oral Accounts of Women Survivors of 1947 Migration

Us and them: Disentangling forms of identification in MNCs

“…A pronoun counting approach is also consistent with research exploring identities and ingroup-outgroup dynamics (e.g. Gordon & Luke, 2016;Housley, Claypool, Garcia-Marques & Mackie, 2010;Lee et al, 2020;Perdue et al, 1990;Qasim & Afsar, 2017).…”

“…Cramer, 2010;Du Bois, 2012;Gordon & Luke, 2016;Lee, Tak, Kwak, & Lim, 2020), including in different linguistic and cultural contexts (e.g. Du Bois, 2012;Qasim & Afsar, 2017). For our study, there also is the question of whether Chinese and Russian native speakers would use "we" similarly in English.…”

“…There also is evidence to suggest that "we" has been used in non-Western, non-English contexts to subconsciously tap into identities (e.g. Qasim & Afsar, 2017). That being said, we do not mean to imply that there are no cultural or cognitive differences between individuals of different cultures, particularly if speaking a non-native language.…”