Many aspects regarding face and the importance of its management in interpersonal
interaction have been explored; however, little is known about the inter-relationship between …

There is a growing consensus that (im) politeness is associated with participants' situated
evaluations vis-à-vis the moral order (Haugh 2013a, 2015b; Kádár and Haugh 2013). This …

While recent pragmatic research on identity in discourse mainly focuses on ubiquitous
construction of one's own or others' identity, inadequate attention has been directed to the …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore possible factors leading to a successful
mediation in Chinese mediation shows. In China, media always play an indispensable role …

This paper examines the ways in which mediators deploy the rite of public shaming in the
activity type of public mediation, as a pragmatic device by means of which they exert social …

This thesis examines the mediated emotional experiences of rural elderly grandparents born
before the 1960s. Against the backdrop of state-led neoliberal modernisation since the …

Despite the increasing popularity of the call for specialized and professionalized mediators
worldwide, the importance of mediation helpers who are non-mediators but invited to assist …

In May 2016, forty-two-year-old Li Yuan gave a public lecture at a top university in China; her
speech entitled “My Awakening and Redemption” immediately went viral on the internet …

This study looks at how the gendered “nei-wai” ideology, pertaining to private and public
sphere distinction, shapes the construction of Chinese heterosexual couple identities in …

This project explores cultural productions in one television genre in Chinese mainstream
media: dispute resolution shows. By applying the theoretical frameworks of Hall's encoding …