Understanding Chinese Social Media

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:2 (2021)

Editors

Sumin Zhao | University of Edinburgh

Chaoqun Xie | Zhejiang International Studies University

[Internet Pragmatics, 4:2] 2021. v, 146 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.4.2

Table of Contents

Introduction: Understanding Chinese social media

Chaoqun Xie & Bingyun Li | pp. 177–189

Articles

Chronotopic (non)modernity in translocal mobile messaging among Chinese migrants in the UK

Agnieszka Lyons, Caroline Tagg & Rachel Hu | pp. 190–218
The construction of heterogeneous and fluid identities: Translanguaging on WeChat

Luyao Li & Jing Huang | pp. 219–246
More than playfulness: Emojis in the comments of a WeChat official account

Yiqiong Zhang, Min Wang & Ying Li | pp. 247–271
“The murderer is him ✓”: Multimodal humor in danmu video comments

Leticia Tian Zhang & Daniel Cassany | pp. 272–294
How and why people are impolite in danmu?

Jiayi Wang | pp. 295–322

Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics