Panel Sessions
(Beijing Time)
Friday, 21 October
Panel: Business discourse pragmatics in the context of digitalization and globalization (1)
Chair: Prof. LIU Ping, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
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16:00-16:30 Exploring the interpersonal facet of information-seeking and its response in a Chinese e-commerce community
GONG Lili (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
16:30-17:00 The discursive construction of social presence in Chinese e-commerce live streaming interaction
YANG Linlin (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
17:00-17:30 Metapragmatic research on persuasive speech acts in live commerce platforms
LI Yaping (Northwest Normal University)
17:30-18:00 Interpersonal functions of metapragmatic expressions in negative hotel review responses
CHEN Jialiang (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
Friday, 21 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics across Cultures and Contexts (1)
Chair: Dr. BAI Tianyi (Zhejiang International Studies University)
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16:00-16:30 A diachronic pragmatic analysis of English news discourse in China——Based on the “culture” column of China Daily
WU Tingting (Central China Normal University)
16:30-17:00 A critical discourse analysis of news reports on China’s “Zero Covid” policy: From the perspective of Fairclough’s three-dimensional model
PANG Chaoying (Shanghai University of International Business and Economics)
17:00-17:30 Leadership construction in update deliveries via email
Christian J. Schmitt (The Open University & Jiangsu University of Technology)
17:30-18:00 A Study of SBUs as relational rituals
ZHOU Honghui (Guangdong University of Economy and Finance)
Friday, 21 October
Panel: Multimodal Discourse Pragmatics (1)
Chair: A/Prof. Dr. HUANG Lihe
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16:00-16:30 Discursive construction of multimodal social work legitimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic
GUI Ling and FENG Dezheng (William) (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
16:30-17:00 Interdiscursivity, social media and commodification of traditional culture: A social semiotic approach to multimodal discourse of Palace Museum on Weibo
CHEN Jingli (Zhejiang International Studies University & The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
17:00-17:30 A study of the attitude system of appraisals in The Birth of Actors Season 1: A multimodal perspective
WANG Zhongrui (Anhui University of Science and Technology)
17:30-18:00 Social Affiliation through Memes: A Case Study of the Functions and Meaning-making of Wu Jing China Memes in Sina Weibo
LIU Yang (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
Friday, 21 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and Cognition (1)
Chair: TIAN Qilin (Zhejiang International Studies University)
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16:00-16:30 A text -world- theory-based analysis of pragmatic skills used in drama texts characterized with consciousness flow
FANG Ying (Yangzhou University)
16:30-17:00 Shifts in narrative perspectives trigger readers’ attention reallocation in mental imagery construction
JIN Jian and LIU Siyun (Anhui Normal University & Central China Normal University)
17:00-17:30 SBUs and the Construction of Socio-cognitive Approach to Pragmatics
ZHU Zhuohui and ZHOU Honghui (Guangdong University of Finance and Economics)
17:30-18:00 Understanding the development of failed humor in Chinese
ZHANG Xue (Macau University of Science and Technology)
Friday, 21 October
Panel: Multimodal Discourse Pragmatics (2)
Chair: A/Prof. Dr. HUANG Lihe
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19:30-20:00 Multimodal speech acts in selected public health posters
Nancy Henaku (University of Ghana)
20:00-20:30 An analysis of metaphors in the political discourse of “House of Cards”
Ledia Kazazi (University of Elbasan “Aleksander Xhuvani”)
20:30-21:00 Graphic Representations of the Migrant Woman: A Compositional Analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (2004)
April Joy P. Pequeña (Xiamen University)
Friday, 21 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics across Cultures and Contexts (2)
Chair: Dr. BAI Tianyi (Zhejiang International Studies University)
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19:30-20:00 Assertive or indicative? A philosophical study on translating the Confucian concept “you yu yi” (游於藝)
LI Le (Zhejiang International Studies University)
20:00-20:30 Translating constructions in online news headlines: Discourse pragmatic perspective
Oleksii Deikun (Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine)
20:30-21:00 Speech Acts and Putin’s legitimisation of the offensive in Ukraine
Raymond Echitchi (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)
21:00-21:30 Identities of Chinese overseas students on WeChat and Instagram: A perspective of polymedia repertoire
MU Yuxuan (University of South Florida)
Friday, 21 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and Cognition (2)
Chair: TIAN Qilin (Zhejiang International Studies University)
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19:30-20:00 A cognitivist analysis of metaphors in migration-related discourse
Maria Boghiu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
20:00-20:30 Discourse pragmatics and cognition: The idea-turned-impression procedure in inaugurals
Serhiy Potapenko (Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine)
20:30-21:00 The pronoun“I" as a subject of self- and other-reference: A linguistic perspective
Suren Zolyan (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia & National Academy of Sciences)
21:00-21:30 Meaning-making in the dramatic discourse of the English Restoration
Olena Marina (The University of Teacher Education Lucerne)
Saturday, 22 October
Panel: Business discourse pragmatics in the context of digitalization and globalization (2)
Chair: Prof. LIU Ping, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
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09:30-10:00 A study of identity construction of merchant response behavior in online business context
ZHANG Ran (Northwest Normal University)
10:00-10:30 Linguistic (in)directness and perceived (im)politeness in BELF email complaints
WANG Liangli (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
10:30-11:00 Pragmatic manipulation of metapragmatic expressions in BELF email negotiations
HUANG Qiaoyi (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
11:00-11:30 A pragmatic study of flattery in BELF emails
WU Yizhu (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
Saturday, 22 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and Language Teaching/Learning (1)
Chair: YING Jieqiong (Zhejiang International Studies University)
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09:30-10:00 A study on the meta-discourse ability of time-limited composition of third-year undergraduate students majoring in Chinese
FENG Shuangyi (Beijing Normal University)
10:00-10:30 Research on pragmatic errors in college students’ English writing from the perspective of pragmatic presupposition
NING Ke (Tianjin University of Finance and Economics)
10:30-11:00 A study of pragmatic ability cultivation strategies for business English majors
SUN Caixia (Tianjin University of Finance and Economics)
Saturday, 22 October
Panel: The Pragmatics of Online Medical Discourse (1)
Chair: Prof. MAO Yansheng (Harbin Engineering University)
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09:30-10:00 From paternalism to partnership: A pragmatic study on doctor’s strategies of partnership building in online medical consultation
WEI Shuang (Central University of Finance and Economics)
10:00-10:30 Cancer patients’ discursive construction of hope in an online support group
LUO Zhengpeng and LI Tingting (Peking University)
10:30-11:00 Constructing positive politeness in online medical consultations
REN Yuxin and LI Xuqing (Lanzhou University of Technology)
11:00-11:30 How to interrogate with words: An analysis of online traditional Chinese medicine consultation
YANG Kun (Nanjing Normal University)
Saturday, 22 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and (Im)politeness (1)
Chair: Dr. CHEN Qian (Northwest Normal University)
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09:30-10:00 A study of interpersonal relationship construction of the third-party response to online stigmatization
CHEN Qian & HUO Fan (Northwest Normal University)
10:00-10:30 Mitigation in Chinese court: A neo-Peircean semiotic perspective
HUANG Yingqi (Xi’an Jiaotong University)
10:30-11:00 Analysis of Chinese netizens’ impoliteness on Taiwan question from TAP perspective
ZHUO Li (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
11:00-11:30 A pragmatic study on impolite language in Sina Weibo comments from the perspective of moral order: Taking social events in hot topics as examples
LU Xiangying (Northwest Normal University)
Saturday, 22 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and (Im)politeness (2)
Chair: Dr. CHEN Qian (Northwest Normal University)
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16:00-16:30 The resources of negative appraisal in scientific communication and expert activity across English and Russian book reviews
Valeria E. Chernyavskaya (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)
16:30-17:00 A Corpus-Based Study of the Concept of Ehteram in Iranian Culture with Implications for Intercultural Communication
Zahra Moghaddasi (Arak University)
17:00-17:30 Speech aggression in internet-communication of Russian neopagans
Nikita A. Probst (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University)
17:30-18:00 When impoliteness evaluations index a sociolinguistic identity: The case of Congo-Brazzaville
Jean Mathieu Tsoumou (Universidad Europea de Canarias)
18:00-18:30 “Your husband is not a man”: (Im)politeness, moral order, and religion
Ahmed Elgadri (Lancaster University)
Saturday, 22 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and Language Teaching/Learning (2)
Chair: YING Jieqiong (Zhejiang International Studies University)
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16:00-16:30 The use of beat gestures in L2 interactions: Proficiency differences
Hiroki Hanamoto (Tokyo Denki University)
16:30-17:00 Application of discourse analysis in the teaching of college English reading
DU Min (Qingdao Agricultural University)
17:00-17:30 Pragmatic study on primary school English textbooks: Taking People’s Education Press’ version as an example
ZENG Wenqi and ZHOU Honghui (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University & Guangdong University of Finance & Economics)
Saturday, 22 October
Panel: Multimodal Discourse Pragmatics (3)
Chair: A/Prof. Dr. HUANG Lihe
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16:00-16:30 The ageing identity construction in mediation discourse: A multimodal perspective
CAI Keyang (Heilongjiang University)
16:30-17:00 Interdiscursivity, multimodality and Chinese clothing culture: A multimodal analysis of ancient costume short videos
XU Yan (Zhejiang Gongshang University)
17:00-17:30 History, modernity, and city branding in China: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Xi’an’s promotional videos on social media
Wang Yilei (Xi’an JIaotong University)
Saturday, 22 October
Panel: The Pragmatics of Online Medical Discourse (2)
Chair: Prof. MAO Yansheng (Harbin Engineering University)
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16:00-16:30 A study of image work in Chinese women’s digital health communication
ZHAO Xin (Nanjing University)
16:30-17:00 An epistemic study of questioning in doctor-patient conversation
DING Ning and YAO Xiaodong (Peking University & Beijing Forestry University)
17:00-17:30 From empathy to empathy: A pragmatic study of emotional veins of person deixis in Chinese online medical discourse
ZHAO Yue (Harbin Engineering University)
17:30-18:00 A pragmatic study of shared decision-making in Chinese online medical consultation
MAO Yansheng (Harbin Engineering University)
Saturday, 22 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and Cognition (3)
Chair: TIAN Qilin (Zhejiang International Studies University)
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16:00-16:30 Translating computer English metaphors in Microsoft Windows: From the perspective of cognitive metaphor theory
CHEN Tian (Central University of Finance and Economics)
16:30-17:00 A comparative study of hedges in Chinese and American spokesmen’s remarks about Russia-Ukraine conflict
TAO Chuanqi (Beijing Normal University)
17:00-17:30 Metadiscourse patterns in discourse variation: A comparative corpus-based study of research articles in life sciences
Lilia Shevyrdyaeva (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia & Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, China)
17:30-18:00 Locating experiential function in interviews of Minister of Education: A systemic functional Approach
Khushbu Kumari & Rashmi Gaur (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
Sunday, 23 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and (Im)politeness (3)
Chair: Dr. CHEN Qian (Northwest Normal University)
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10:10-10:40 Situated impoliteness: Aggressive posters in college students’ community of practices
LIU Mengzhen (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
10:40-11:10 Bibliometric analysis of (im)politeness research based on CSSCI database
ZHANG Min & LEI Hong (Xi’an International Studies University)
11:10-11:40 Conflictive talk and identity in the Chinese RTV show: Evidence from I Am The Actor
ZHANG Wei (Fuzhou University)
Sunday, 23 October
Panel: Discursive Pragmatics and Interpersonal Interaction (1)
Chair Prof. LI Chengtuan (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
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10:10-10:40 ‘Kaigewanxiao’ (开个玩笑): A metapragmatic marker of rapport management and intention flow in Chinese media discourse
LI Chengtuan and ZHAO Zhiwei (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
10:40-11:10 A study of celebrities’ self deprecation and professional identity construction in acceptance speech
LI Chengtuan, LI Xiaorui and ZHOU Yuanyi (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
11:10-11:40 Interactional challenges in 120 emergency service call between call taker and suffering patient: A single case analysis
XU Qinyun (Sun Yat-sen University)
Sunday, 23 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and Internet Communication (1)
Chair: Prof. YUAN Zhoumin (Nanjing University of Posts and Tecommunications)
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10:10-10:40 Approaching cyberbullying from a rapport management perspective
YANG Jinlong and YAO Mingxin (Sichuan International Studies University & Nanjing University)
10:40-11:10 National image construction and discourse strategies: An engagement analysis of COVID-19 external publicity news from China Daily
TIAN Yuan (Tianjin University of Finance and Economics)
11:10-11:40 An ideational and interpersonal analysis on the third episode of the documentary China: Time of Xi: All Aboard
TANG Dengling (Chongqing Jiaotong University)
Sunday, 23 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and (Im)politeness (3)
Chair: Dr. CHEN Qian (Northwest Normal University)
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14:00-14:30 Facework in digital fitness discourse: Multimodal discourse strategies in legitimating advice-giving act
TONG Ying & LU Sunman (Nanjing Xiaozhuang University)
14:30-15:00 Investigating impolite online comments on service-related and regulation-related videos during COVID-19
JIANG Yuxin & ZHENG Qun (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Sunday, 23 October
Panel: Discursive Pragmatics and Interpersonal Interaction (2)
Chair Prof. LI Chengtuan (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
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14:00-14:30 Expression of stance in oral dialogue of Chinese English learners and native English speakers
WANG Xuan and LUO Chuanwei (Fuzhou University & Zhejiang Normal University)
14:30-15:00 Affiliative practices in culture-sensitive talk through metapragmatic devices
LI Yuxin (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
15:00-15:30 Conversational repair as common ground builder in intercultural communication with Chinese as a lingua franca
YANG Yan (Pingliang Shitielu Middle School)
Sunday, 23 October
Panel: Business discourse pragmatics in the context of digitalization and globalization (3)
Chair: Prof. LIU Ping, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
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14:00-14:30 Creating common ground: The role of metapragmatic expressions in live streaming e-commerce
LI Jiayi (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
14:30-15:00 Explaining as a pragmatic strategy for identity construction in
TikTok e-commerce live streaming
YAO Ruotong (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
15:00-15:30 Strategic self-promotion in Chinese live streaming commerce interactions
LIU Ping (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
Sunday, 23 October
Panel: Discourse Pragmatics and Internet Communication (2)
Chair: Prof. YUAN Zhoumin (Nanjing University of Posts and Tecommunications)
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14:00-14:30 Category negotiation of police officers in Chinese police mediation discourse
FENG Wenjing (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
14:30-15:00 A social semiotic approach to discursive construction of evaluative identities: A corpus-based study of Weibo hashtags of festivals
PANG Yutian (Jinan University)
15:00-15:30 Being Chinese online: Discursive (re)production of internet-mediated Chinese national identity
WANG Zhiwei (University of Edinburgh)