Jiayi Wang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jiayi Wang plays a role.

Articles

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Wang, Jiayi 2021 How and why people are impolite in danmu ? Understanding Chinese Social Media, Zhao, Sumin and Chaoqun Xie (eds.), pp. 295–322 | Article
This study explores how and why people are impolite in danmu. Danmu refers to anonymous comments overlaid on videos uploaded to video-sharing sites. Although there is wide recognition that impoliteness prevails in danmu, the questions of how and why people are impolite in this context have… read more
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Wang, Jiayi 2019 Dániel Z. Kádár, Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction  Internet Pragmatics 2:2, pp. 319–324 | Review
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Wang, Jiayi and Gerard A. Postiglione 2008 China’s minorities without written scripts: The case of education access among the Dongxiang Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18:2, pp. 166–190 | Article
The Chinese state sees language as an essential determinant in ethnic minority schooling. The use of minority language as a medium of instruction is viewed as a way to increase attendance rates and strengthen socialization into a national ideology. However, the policies differ for those ethnic… read more