Publications
Publication details [#51815]
Yin, Jing and Yoshitaka Miike. 2008. A Textual Analysis of Fortune Cookie Sayings: How Chinese Are They? Howard Journal of Communication 19 (1) : 18–43. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper explores fortune cookie sayings as hybridized cultural discourse and analyzes their primary functions and their main embedded values and ideologies. According to this study, they represent a mix of the American Dream and Chinese upward mobility.