Yongping Ran

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yongping Ran plays a role.

Journal

Previous research has investigated aspects of deontics, epistemics, and resistance in medical settings. However, few have focused on deontics and how resistance shapes the responses of deontic authority (Stivers and Timmermans 2020), especially in online medical counseling. Utilizing the data… read more
Ran, Yongping, Linsen Zhao and Dániel Z. Kádár 2020 The rite of reintegrative shaming in Chinese public dispute mediationThe Pragmatics of Ritual, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 40–63 | Article
This paper examines the ways in which mediators deploy the rite of public shaming in the activity type of public mediation, as a pragmatic device by means of which they exert social control. Our data consists of episodes of public mediation events in rural China, aired in the Chinese Television.… read more
This study explores the role of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) as pragmatic manipulation in a media context, with data drawn from a Chinese TV panel discussion program Tiger Talk. It argues that the program host selects MPEs to manipulate the ongoing interactions, in order to solve or prevent the… read more