Leticia Tian Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leticia Tian Zhang plays a role.
2022 “¿Triste estás? I don’t know nan molla”: Multilingual pop song fandubs by @miree_music Pop culture in applied linguistics: International perspectives: Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 173:2 (2022), Werner, Valentin (ed.), pp. 197–227 | Article
Fandubbing, or dubbing made by fans of any audiovisual product, is a linguistically and technologically sophisticated enterprise enacted by many devoted fans. This study presents the case of Miree, a 24-year-old fandubber with more than 1 million subscribers on YouTube and more than 300… read more
2021 “The murderer is him ✓”: Multimodal humor in danmu video comments Understanding Chinese Social Media, Zhao, Sumin and Chaoqun Xie (eds.), pp. 272–294 | Article
This paper analyzes humorous comments created through a popular viewing-and-commenting system used in China and Japan, known as danmu (or danmaku). This system enables its users to superimpose anonymous comments on the video frame, which are displayed in subsequent viewing. We collected 327… read more
2019 ‘Is it always so fast?’: Chinese perceptions of Spanish through danmu video comments Spanish in Context 16:2, pp. 217–242 | Article
While much research has proved the benefits of subtitled audiovisuals for foreign language learning, few studies address such practices in out-of-classroom settings or focus on Asia-based video-sharing platforms. This study bridges this gap by introducing an increasingly popular… read more
2019 Estrategias de comprensión audiovisual y traducción del español al chino en una comunidad fansub Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 32:2, pp. 620–649 | Article
Documentamos y analizamos una comunidad china de fansub, que traduce y subtitula series y películas hispanas, explorando los recursos y estrategias que se utilizan para comprender y transcribir del español y traducir al chino. Con etnografía virtual (Hine, 2000), combinando observación… read more