[ecrea] cfp: Special Issue Call for Internet Pragmatics: Understanding Chinese Social Media

The newly launched journal Internet Pragmatics by John Benjamins is 
seeking contributions to a special issue on Chinese social media to be 
published in 2020.


You can find details of the call here,


https://www.benjamins.com/series/ip/callforpapers.pdf


You can read about the journal here,

https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/ip

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Special Issue Call



Topic: Understanding Chinese social media
Journal: Internet Pragmatics 3:1 (to be published around January 2020) 
Editors: Sumin Zhao ((suminzhao /at/ sdu.dk)) & Chaoqun Xie
((internetpragmatics /at/ foxmail.com))



Important dates:

Abstract due: July 1, 2018

Full paper due: December 31, 2018 Revised paper due: April 1, 2019
Whole manuscript sent to the Publisher: July 31, 2019 Issue published: 
January 2020


Social media networks play a critical role in the social landscape of 
contemporary China. WeChat, for instance, attracts 963 million active 
users each month as of 2017 (Statistica, 2017) and is one of the key 
digital means of communication for the highly mobile, both internally 
and internationally, Chinese population (e.g. Yu, Huang and Liu 2017; 
Zhou and Gui 2017; Zhao and Flewitt, in pro). While there is a growing 
body of applied linguistics research on social media platforms such as 
Facebook (e.g. Georgalou 2017; Tagg, Seargeant, and Brown 2017) and 
Twitter (e.g. Page 2012, 2018; Zappavigna 2011, 2018; Dayter 2016), the 
rich language and multimodal practices on Chinese social media are not 
well understood. The purpose of this special issue is to showcase 
state‐of‐art applied linguistics in particular pragmatics research on 
Chinese social media (e.g. WeChat, Weibo, QQ, etc) and explore 
theoretical, methodological and ethical issues in researching Chinese 
social media. Specifically, it aims to address (but not limited to) the 
following topics:

•	What are the emerging forms of communicative genres and conventions?
•	What are the pragmatic features of Chinese social media?
•	What are the technological affordances of Chinese social media 
platforms/applications and how they mediate communicative events?




•	How are different forms of social identities constructed and negotiated?
•	How is facework, politeness or impoliteness done on Chinese social media?




References

Dayter, Daria. 2016. Discursive Self in Microblogging: Speech acts, 
Stories and Self‐praise. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Farina, Matteo. 2018. Facebook and Conversation Analysis: The Structure 
and Organization of Comment Threads. London: Bloomsbury.

Statistica.2017. Number of monthly active WeChat users from 2nd quarter 
2010 to 2nd quarter 2017 (in millions). Retrieved at 
https://www.statista.com/statistics/255778/number‐of‐active‐wechat‐; 
messenger‐accounts/

Page, Ruth 2012. “The linguistics of self‐branding and micro‐celebrity 
in Twitter: The role of hashtags.” Discourse & communication 6(2): 181‐201.

Page, Ruth. 2018. Narratives Online: Shared Stories in Social Media. 
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tagg, Caroline, Seargeant, Philip, and Amy Aisha Brown. 2017. Taking 
Offence on Social Media: Conviviality and Communication on Facebook. 
London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Georgalou, Mariza. 2017. Discourse and Identity on Facebook. London: 
Bloomsbury.

Yu, Qian, Peiying Huang, and Liming Liu. 2017. “From ‘connected 
presence’ to ‘panoptic presence’: Reframing the parent–child 
relationship on mobile instant messaging uses in the Chinese translocal 
context.” Mobile Media & Communication 5(2): 123‐138. 
doi:10.1177/2050157916688348

Zappavigna, Michele. 2012. Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How We 
Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web. London: Bloomsbury.

Zappavigna, Michele. 2018. Searchable Talk: Hashtags and Social Media 
Metadiscourse. London: Bloomsbury.

Zhou, Baohua, and Shihui Gui. 2017 “WeChat and distant family 
intergenerational communication in China: A study of online content 
sharing on WeChat.” In New Media and Chinese Society, ed. by Ke Xue, and 
Mingyang Yu, 185‐206. Singapore: Springer.

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