“I'm telling you”: The use of interactional metadiscourse in Chinese live streaming commerce

Q Liu, W Cheng - Journal of Pragmatics, 2025 - Elsevier
As an emerging form of mediated communication, live streaming commerce (LSC) has
established itself as a distinctive business genre. This study examines the use of …

Multimodal joint fantasising as a category‑implicative and category‑relations‑implicative action in online multi‑party interaction

V Sinkeviciute - Internet Pragmatics, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
Drawing on interactional pragmatics and membership categorisation analysis, with a focus
on (un) accomplished intersubjectivity, categories and social action, this paper explores …