Identity has been widely examined in various subjects,like psychology and sociolinguistics.However,there is a lack of a systemic review concerning this field.Thus,this paper aims to discuss the presented literature re...
The purpose of this study was to investigate college students’ use of impoliteness expressions in WeChat diction and what factors influence college students’ use of impoliteness expressions. In-depth interview was u...
support the Department of Education of Guangdong Province and Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, for the project (2018WZDXM006) on the frontier research and theoretical innovations in interpersonal pragmatics;the Youth Fund Project (Project No.: 19QN34) of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies;the support from the Chinese Ministry of Education Research Project of Humanities and Social Science (Project No.: 16JJD740006) conducted by the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
This paper examines an under-researched phenomenon of mock impoliteness in Chinese online interaction,namely,the practice of hudui(lit.reciprocal jocular abuse)as a solidarity enhancing device among acquaintances.Draw...
In daily life,everyone has to communicate with the medium of language.How to communicate effectively is a question bothering each of us through our lifetime.This thesis analyzes the situations of communication between...
Having long been recognized as the primary research area where the politeness and impoliteness phenomena are examined,studies of speech acts including compliment,thanks and apologies provide insights into politeness n...
This paper aims to interrogate the relationship between politeness and impoliteness for pragmatics study. Away from the model whereby individual speech acts are considered to be inherently polite or impolite, one argu...