Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2023.07.002

Xiaoyi Bi , Wei Ren

引用次数: 2

Abstract

This paper aims to unpack perceptions of self-mockery in present-day Chinese using an online self-mockery viral event. The metapragmatic analysis of comments indicates that its interpretation is closely intertwined with other cultural factors and open to construal in a folk manner. Despite folk concepts being largely consistent with etic understandings of self-mockery, they are at the same time emotional and socially salient. The interpretation of self-mockery within a social practice is determined by how it is enacted by what person and in comparison with others, i.e., the situationally (un)approved and culturally salient meaning.

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社交媒体上解构汉语自嘲概念的元语用评论

本文旨在通过一个网络自嘲病毒事件来揭示当今中国人对自嘲的看法。对评论的元语用分析表明，它的解释与其他文化因素紧密交织在一起，并以民间的方式进行解释。尽管民间观念在很大程度上与自嘲的理解一致，但它们同时在情感和社会上都很突出。社会实践中对自嘲的解释取决于自嘲是由什么人实施的，以及与他人的比较，即情境（未）认可和文化显著的含义。

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3.40

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