Wei-Lin Melody Chang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wei-Lin Melody Chang plays a role.
Articles
2021 Taking it too far: The role of ideological discourses in contesting the limits of teasing and offence Pragmatics 31:3, pp. 382–405 | Article
While teasing can cause offence, participants on television variety or game shows are generally expected to tolerate it. In this paper, we examine comments posted on YouTube in response to reports of a leaked recording of a television host in Taiwan swearing at and insulting a guest who teased… read more
2015 Troubles talk, (dis)affiliation and the participation order in Taiwanese-Chinese online discussion boards Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions, Dynel, Marta and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 99–133 | Article
Online discussion boards are a common forum in which everyday users share
troubles, elicit various forms of empathy and sympathy, and also seek advice
from others. One challenge facing participants, as well as analysts, is the interpretation
of expressions of discontent or dissatisfaction as either… read more
2015 “Doing deference”: Identities and relational practices in Chinese online discussion boards Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora, Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn (eds.), pp. 73–98 | Article
In this paper we examine a key relational practice found in interactions in online discussion boards in Mainland China and Taiwan: ‘doing deference’. In drawing attention to a relational practice that has received attention in quite different research traditions, namely, linguistic pragmatics and… read more