Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China
Edited by Doreen D. Wu, Ming Liu and David C.S. Li
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 (2022) v, 165 pp.
Doreen D. Wu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Doreen D. Wu plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Media Discourse in Greater China
Edited by Sai-hua Kuo and Doreen D. Wu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:2 (2009) v, 166 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies
Articles
2022 Rapport building by Chinese celebrities on Weibo and Facebook Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China, Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu and David C.S. Li (eds.), pp. 7–27 | Article
The paper examines how Chinese celebrities build rapport with their followers on social media, with a comparison between the Chinese mainland (on Weibo) and Hong Kong (on Facebook) celebrities. Rapport building is conceptualized as language use in promoting social bonding and emotional… read more
2022 Introduction to “Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China” Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China, Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu and David C.S. Li (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction
2015 Chapter 10. Discourses of female leaders in postcolonial Hong Kong Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 251–272 | Article
The present study examines divergent political discourse systems in postcolonial Hong Kong (cf. Flowerdew 1997), as distinguished by the political claims of two female leaders regarding universal suffrage: Carrie LAM Cheng Yuet-ngor and Emily LAU Wai-hing. Data for analysis are derived from their… read more
2011 Hybridized images: Representations of the “modern woman” across mainland China and Hong Kong TV commercials Cultural China in Discursive Transformation, Shi-xu, (ed.), pp. 177–195 | Article
As advertising can be a social factor and cultural artifact, this study analyzes the images of “modern Chinese woman” via an investigation of their role portrayals, appearance/projection, and verbal characteristics represented in a total of 164 award-winning Chinese TV commercials from 2007 to 2009. read more
2009 Changing ideologies and advertising discourses in China: A case study of Nanfang Daily Media Discourse in Greater China, Kuo, Sai-hua and Doreen D. Wu (eds.), pp. 218–238 | Article
The present study aims to unveil the changing ideologies in contemporary China from a micro discursive perspective, focusing on a case study of the changing advertising discourses in Nanfang Daily, a typical Communist Party newspaper in Guangdong province, P. R. China. Advertising discourse has… read more
2009 Media discourse in Greater China Media Discourse in Greater China, Kuo, Sai-hua and Doreen D. Wu (eds.), pp. 173–178 | Article