Chaoqun Xie

List of John Benjamins publications for which Chaoqun Xie plays a role.

Book series

Journals

Titles

The Pragmatics of Internet Memes

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

[Benjamins Current Topics, 120] 2022. v, 183 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice

Edited by Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 318] 2021. vii, 348 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Understanding Chinese Social Media

Edited by Sumin Zhao and Chaoqun Xie

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:2 (2021) v, 146 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

The Pragmatics of Internet Memes

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 3:2 (2020) v, 193 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 1:2 (2018) v, 174 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

This article seeks to explore the mechanisms of holding others accountable for a perceived deviation from moral order through public complaints on Chinese social media as well as the influences of emotional stance and social positioning when people perceive a breach of the moral order and try to… read more
Tong, Ying and Chaoqun Xie 2022 Complaining, teasing, and meme-framing: Socializing through Moments storytellingFormality and Informality in Online Performances, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 66–91 | Article
This article explores the pragmatic act of complaining on WeChat Moments (henceforth Moments) focusing on the following question: When complaints are made in a social context where ratified viewers are hard to define, how are such acts constructed and construed? The multimodal data under study… read more
Xie, Chaoqun 2022 Introduction: The pragmatics of internet memesThe Pragmatics of Internet Memes, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
Xie, Chaoqun 2022 Internet memes we live by (and die by)The Pragmatics of Internet Memes, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 7–35 | Chapter
In the internet age, memes are at once products and driving forces of social practices. A meme contains a memetic message and a meme output, and boasts, if guided by a pragmatic way of thinking, several features, including, but not limited to, salience, frequency, adaptability, argumentativity,… read more
Xie, Chaoqun and Bingyun Li 2021 Introduction: Understanding Chinese social mediaUnderstanding Chinese Social Media, Zhao, Sumin and Chaoqun Xie (eds.), pp. 177–189 | Introduction
Human beings are now living in social media, for various social media apps or platforms are becoming more and more indispensable to their everyday livelihood and social practice. In fact, social media users are dwelling in two life-worlds and living two lives, online and offline, shuttling back… read more
Xie, Chaoqun and Ying Tong 2021 Chapter 7. Inviting a purchase: A multimodal analysis of staged authenticity in WeChat social sellingApproaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds.), pp. 207–234 | Chapter
The present study investigates the pragmatic strategies and effects of self-presentation performance in a social selling context either by way of status updates or through group chat in WeChat, a popular social networking platform in China. Drawing on Goffman’s (1959, 1974, 1981) outstanding… read more
Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland 2021 Introduction: Approaching internet pragmaticsApproaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Introduction
Xie, Chaoqun 2020 Internet memes we live by (and die by)The Pragmatics of Internet Memes, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 145–173 | Article
In the internet age, memes are at once products and driving forces of social practices. A meme contains a memetic message and a meme output, and boasts, if guided by a pragmatic way of thinking, several features, including but not limited to salience, frequency, adaptability, argumentativity,… read more
Xie, Chaoqun 2020 The pragmatics of internet memesThe Pragmatics of Internet Memes, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 139–144 | Introduction
Xie, Chaoqun 2020 (Im)politeness, morality and the internet(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
Much recent research has contributed to the emergence of a moral turn in (im)politeness scholarship, further confirming the evaluative nature of (im)politeness and the moral basis of (im)politeness evaluations, and further illuminating, among other things, what is really at work when (im)politeness… read more
This paper explores social bonding in language play via the construction of ‘Chinese character (annotation)’ on two major social media platforms (Sina Weibo and WeChat) in China. The Chinese characters and their bracketed annotations under study, despite their one-to-one matching in sequence,… read more
Xie, Chaoqun and Ying Tong 2019 Constructing ‘ordinariness’: An analysis of Jack Ma’s narrative identities on Sina WeiboThe Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 179–205 | Chapter
In this chapter, we attempt, inspired by Sacks’ (1984) discussion of “doing being ordinary”, to explore and expound the means and purposes celebrities do “being ordinary” on social media and the related notions of narrative in digital communication and narrative identity. These notions are… read more
Xie, Chaoqun 2018 (Im)politeness, morality and the internet(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 205–215 | Introduction
Much recent research has contributed to the emergence of a moral turn in (im)politeness research, further confirming the evaluative nature of (im)politeness and the moral basis of (im)politeness evaluations, and further illuminating, among other things, what is really at work when (im)politeness… read more
Xie, Chaoqun and Francisco Yus 2018 Introducing internet pragmaticsInternet Pragmatics 1:1, pp. 1–12 | Article
The internet and internet-mediated life have presented new issues and challenges for research on pragmatics. When analyzing the application of pragmatics to internet-mediated communication, a possibility is to set up a number of layers and study the contributions that traditional pragmatic… read more
Xie, Chaoqun and Bingyun Li 2017 McCready, Eric. 2015. Reliability in Pragmatics Studies in Language 41:3, pp. 800–807 | Review
Xie, Chaoqun, Sheng You and Xiaoying Wu 2014 The cognitive pragmatics of subtitlingPragmatics & Cognition 22:3, pp. 402–420 | Review article
This paper features a critical review of the book Politeness and Audience Response in Chinese-English Subtitling. A brief introduction of the book’s content is given first, followed by a critical appraisal on merits and loopholes in the book. Furthermore, some interdisciplinary amendments — based… read more
Xie, Chaoqun and Juliane House 2009 Some aspects of pragmatics: Linguistic, cognitive, and interculturalPragmatics & Cognition 17:2, pp. 421–439 | Article
Part of current pragmatics research aims at opening up new avenues of inquiry by revisiting and revising some of its central topics and keywords, such as implicature, explicature, truth, varieties of meaning, meaning inference, relevance, politeness, and face. This review article attempts to… read more
Xie, Chaoqun 2007 Controversies about politenessTraditions of Controversy, Dascal, Marcelo † and Han-liang Chang (eds.), pp. 249–266 | Article
Xie, Chaoqun, Ziran He and Dajin Lin 2005 Politeness: Myth and truthStudies in Language 29:2, pp. 431–461 | Article
Little progress has been made in modern politeness studies despite mountains of publications that have been bombarding the politeness market over the past three or so decades, rendering the latter in much a mess. It is argued in this paper that (1) politeness does not necessarily entail sincerity,… read more
Xie, Chaoqun, Dajin Lin and Bingyun Li 2004 Review of Kasher (1998): Pragmatics: Critical ConceptsStudies in Language 28:1, pp. 237–246 | Review