Abstract
This study investigates the sociolinguistics of contemporary Chinese calligraphic works of an ancient poem titled “Xiangjianhuan”. It probes how multiple voices, with various degrees of agency of creativity (that is, the freedom and space allowed for the creative actions), coexist, conflate and contest with each other in the poem itself and the textual-artistic representations of the poem. It relates these multiple voices with different kinds of contesting and conflicting identities manifested through the multimodal resources of the text art. Through the analysis, this study is hoped to shed light on the (socio)linguistic study of Chinese poetry calligraphy as a form of text art in relation to literary creativity and identity work.
Funding statement: This work is supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (Project NO.: 18CYY050) National Social Science Foundation of China (Project NO.: 21AYY013), and the Self-Determined Research Funds of CCNU from MOE for basic research and operation (Project No.: CCNU20TD008).
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