{"title":"Square dancing","authors":"Qi Zhang, Gen Min","doi":"10.1075/CLD.18011.ZHA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.18011.ZHA","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Square dancing, guangchangwu in Chinese, is a kind of physical activity practiced in flat public\u0000 spaces for fitness and entertainment. Despite its popularity all over China, there have been news reports on conflicts caused by\u0000 it, such as noise pollution or use of a public square. This study collects 150 news articles published between May 2016 and May\u0000 2018 containing the keyword guangchangwu from the People’s Daily, one of the most influential\u0000 official newspapers owned by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The purpose of the study is to investigate the\u0000 government’s attitudes towards square dancing through an analysis of the official media discourse, using word frequency of\u0000 occurrence and multimodal discourse analysis. Both the word count and the co-deployment of visual and linguistic resources\u0000 indicate that square dancing is perceived as an integral part of promoting the national fitness agenda. While the discourse\u0000 demonstrates awareness of square dancing in the context of an aging society and a shortage of public space, general approval for\u0000 it is still quite evident in the frequent positive descriptions in the text and presentations in the images. The use of the word\u0000 dama ‘big mama’ in the official media discourse reveals gender inequality in contemporary China.","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73241658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediatized Taiwan Mandarin","authors":"C. Peng","doi":"10.1075/CLD.17008.PEN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.17008.PEN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examines the changing perceptions of Taiwan Mandarin (TM) among Chinese mainlanders and how televised media contribute\u0000 to the formation of language ideology. This study shows that televised media play a role in reinforcing the socio-semiotic link\u0000 between ideologies and linguistic practice. TM is traditionally associated with chic, urban television celebrities and young\u0000 cosmopolitan types. However, the results of an online survey measuring language attitudes towards televised TM among young\u0000 mainlanders indicate that the social prestige of TM may be waning for this demographic. TM is now perceived by many millennials on\u0000 the mainland as gentle, pretentious and emasculated. The changing attitude among millennials on the Chinese mainland towards TM\u0000 can be ascribed in part to (1) social and economic changes on the mainland and (2) the way TM is stylized in televised media.","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77333686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“He killed a chicken, but it didn’t die”","authors":"Jidong Chen","doi":"10.1075/CLD.17007.CHE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.17007.CHE","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Mandarin contrasts typologically with English in its lexicalization of state change (Talmy\u0000 2000). The majority of Mandarin monomorphemic verbs is moot about or implies a state change, whereas English has many\u0000 monomorphemic verbs (e.g. kill) that entail a state change. This study investigates empirically the nuanced\u0000 lexicalization of state-change implicature in Mandarin monomorphemic verbs and its implications for the linguistic typology of\u0000 encoding state change. Two experiments were conducted with adult native Mandarin speakers: a rating task about the acceptability\u0000 of sentences that expressed a failure of fulfilment of a state-change (e.g. Zhangsan sha le ji, ke shi ji mei si\u0000 ‘Zhangsan killed a chicken, but it didn’t die’) and a multiple-choice task that probed the preferred interpretation of\u0000 monomorphemic state-change verbs. The results of both studies reveal a significant effect of verb types and post hoc comparisons\u0000 show a cline of state-change implicature in the target verbs.","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72905135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wendan Li, Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse","authors":"Yurong Zhao","doi":"10.1075/CLD.00012.ZHA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.00012.ZHA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76474604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The emergence of a discourse construction in the internet","authors":"Xinjia Peng","doi":"10.1075/CLD.18012.PEN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.18012.PEN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This analysis aims at establishing the discourse construction as a theoretical construct within the framework of\u0000 Construction Grammar. Linguistic constructions theoretically exist at different levels of analysis, but linguistic analyses at the\u0000 level of discourse are few and far apart. This analysis showcases a study of a discourse construction that contains the internet\u0000 neologism yě-shì-zuì-le. This discourse construction emerges from the Chinese cyberspace and develops complex\u0000 meaning and function. I illustrate how the construct of discourse construction allows for an in-depth explanation its use and\u0000 development. Also, the analysis of this construction demonstrates the necessity to redefine and broaden the consideration of\u0000 ‘context’ when the idea of a discourse construction is introduced.","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"84 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79752819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Singapore Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Jingxia Lin, Y. Khoo","doi":"10.1075/CLD.18007.LIN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.18007.LIN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Given the historical and linguistic contexts of Singapore, it is both theoretically and practically significant to study Singapore\u0000 Mandarin (SM), an important member of Global Chinese. This paper aims to present a relatively comprehensive linguistic picture of\u0000 SM by overviewing current studies, particularly on the variations that distinguish SM from other Mandarin varieties, and to serve\u0000 as a reference for future studies on SM. This paper notes that (a) current studies have often provided general descriptions of the\u0000 variations, but less on individual variations that may lead to more theoretical discussions; (b) the studies on SM are primarily\u0000 based on comparisons with Mainland China Mandarin; (c) language contact has been taken as the major contributor of the variation\u0000 in SM, whereas other factors are often neglected; and (d) corpora with SM data are comparatively less developed and the evaluation\u0000 of data has remained largely in descriptive statistics.","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90348470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"方梅 (Fang Mei) 乐耀 (Yue Yao). 2017. 《规约化与立场表达》 (Conventionalization and Stance-taking in Chinese\u0000 Discourse)","authors":"Fang Li","doi":"10.1075/CLD.00011.LI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.00011.LI","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78341869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I am not criticizing you”","authors":"Jun Lang","doi":"10.1075/CLD.00010.LAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.00010.LAN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examines a Chinese indirect speech act conventionally expressed with what I call the construction of earnest\u0000 advice. From a constructionist perspective, I posit that the construction of earnest advice is an indirect\u0000 speech act construction. Its idiosyncratic form is paired with the function of showing genuine concern and providing advice in the\u0000 best interest of the hearer. Based on corpus evidence and discourse analysis, I analyze the contextually situated subtypes of this\u0000 function, including passing judgments, providing suggestions, issuing complaints and mock sarcasms. The use of the contextual\u0000 subtypes depends on interpersonal factors such as social distance, power difference, and group membership. This study has\u0000 implications for politeness theories.","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81629958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The econo-linguistics approach to the study of investor sentiment","authors":"Clara Ho-yan Chan, K. Sin, B. K. T'sou","doi":"10.1075/CLD.17002.CHA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.17002.CHA","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper sets out to examine the existing literature in the study of investor sentiment, and propose research areas in the\u0000 Pan-Chinese context by use of the econo-linguistics approach. This new research may provide insights into the mindset of Chinese\u0000 investors by explicating the language that represents it. Such language arises in public financial discourse that involves the use\u0000 of special terminology and metaphorical expressions in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan and may contribute to influencing\u0000 investment behaviour and outcome. Following the review of the research, this paper proposes the use of an innovative mechanism and\u0000 platform for systemizing financial terminologies and facilitating financial research within the inter-disciplinary framework of\u0000 econo-linguistics, especially in the Pan-Chinese regions.","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87387142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourse uses and prosodic properties of ranhou in spontaneous Mandarin conversation","authors":"Wei Wang","doi":"10.1075/CLD.00006.WAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/CLD.00006.WAN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines two emerging discourse uses, topic-shifting and trail-off, of a temporal conjunction ranhou in\u0000 spontaneous Mandarin conversation. Unlike traditional approaches that focus exclusively on such textual functions as temporality\u0000 and consequentiality of ranhou, the present study considers the role of prosody in making ranhou\u0000 recognizable as a topic-shifting and trail-off marker in interaction. Using the framework of conversation analysis, this paper\u0000 reveals that, as a topic-shifting marker, ranhou signals both stepwise and disjunctive topic shifts; as a\u0000 trail-off marker, it marks the closure of the current turn and invites the recipient’s response. The prosodic analysis\u0000 demonstrates that the topic-shifting ranhou shows a significantly longer duration and larger pitch range than its\u0000 other uses; the trail-off ranhou features intonational independence, loudness diminuendo, and/or durational\u0000 lengthening. These prosodic designs, in collaboration with particular sequential environment, make the new discourse uses and\u0000 their associated interactional purposes recognizable by conversation co-participants.","PeriodicalId":42144,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Language and Discourse","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80377726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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