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Deictic and non-deictic reference at the online-offline nexus: Discussing death on Reddit 在线-离线关系中的指示性和非指示性参考：在Reddit上讨论死亡

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Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100899

Carolin Schneider

Caring for a loved one with dementia is an emotionally and physically demanding experience, often leaving caregivers feeling isolated and overwhelmed. On the dementia-related subreddit r/Dx, discussions of death are frequent and central, particularly among the most engaged posts. While death and loss are often perceived taboo in offline discourse, caregivers express faceted thoughts related to the topic in this digitally mediated discourse, finding empathy and understanding from the other users in return. This study analyzes the discursive construction of death-related experience through the lens of deictic and non-deictic reference. Drawing from 100 top-voted Reddit threads, the analysis explores how users employ personal, spatial, and temporal references to position themselves, navigate their caregiving role at the online-offline nexus and negotiate their roles within the community after the death of the person cared for. While death marks the end of the offline care role, it also alters the care partner’s role in the online sphere, either marking the user’s exit from the community, or contrarily emphasizing the continued involvement therein. Consequently, these posts serve as a basis for discussing the nature of the subreddit as a digital Community of Practice (CofP) exploring the bonds that tie individuals to this digital CofP post-loss.

照顾患有痴呆症的亲人是一项在情感和身体上都很费力的经历，往往会让照顾者感到孤立和不堪重负。在与痴呆症相关的reddit r/Dx版块上，关于死亡的讨论是频繁和核心的，尤其是在最活跃的帖子中。虽然死亡和失去通常被视为离线话语中的禁忌，但护理人员在这种数字媒介话语中表达与主题相关的多方面想法，并从其他用户那里获得同情和理解。本研究透过指示性与非指示性指称的视角，分析死亡相关经验的话语建构。从100个投票最多的Reddit帖子中，该分析探讨了用户如何利用个人、空间和时间参考来定位自己，定位他们在线上线下关系中的照顾角色，以及在被照顾者去世后他们在社区中的角色。虽然死亡标志着线下护理角色的结束，但它也改变了护理伙伴在在线领域的角色，要么标志着用户退出社区，要么相反地强调继续参与其中。因此，这些帖子作为讨论reddit作为数字实践社区（CofP）的本质的基础，探索将个人与这个数字CofP联系在一起的纽带。

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The motives attributed to trollers in metapragmatic comments on alleged Chinese yinzhan (conflict-provoking trolling) posts 在所谓的中国引战（挑起冲突的喷子）帖子上的元实用主义评论中，喷子的动机

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Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100892

Hao Liu

This study adopts a metapragmatic perspective to investigate the linguistically-marked motives that participants attribute to those they perceive as trollers in online interactions. Focusing on the practice of yinzhan (引战, conflict-provoking trolling) on the Chinese Weibo platform, we analyse 296 metapragmatic comments on alleged yinzhan posts. Four primary motives behind yinzhan are identified: promotion, affiliation, profit-making, and emotional reasons. In contrast to prior studies that emphasise emotional or personality-related motives behind trolling behaviour, the findings indicate that yinzhan on Weibo is primarily framed as a commercial activity. Further analysis reveals significant variations in motive attribution patterns across different platform-verified identity categories (e.g., content creators vs. ordinary users), suggesting how Weibo’s commercalised architecture may shape interpretations of trolling. These results reflect the market-driven logic underlying trolling discourse within platform capitalism, offering new insights into the context-dependent nature of trolling. Additionally, the study would enrich the existing literature by introducing a metapragmatic framework to investigate folk theories of online behaviours as contested and constructed through users’ actual interactional practices.

本研究采用元语用学的视角来研究参与者在网络互动中认为是网络欺凌者的语言标记动机。针对中国微博平台上的“引战”行为，我们分析了296条关于“引战”的元语用评论。银展背后有四个主要动机：晋升、隶属关系、盈利和情感原因。与之前强调情感或个性动机的研究相反，研究结果表明，微博上的“刷屏”主要被视为一种商业活动。进一步的分析揭示了不同平台验证的身份类别（例如，内容创作者与普通用户）在动机归因模式上的显著差异，这表明微博的商业化架构可能会如何影响对钓鱼行为的解释。这些结果反映了平台资本主义中网络喷子话语背后的市场驱动逻辑，为网络喷子的语境依赖性质提供了新的见解。此外，该研究将通过引入元语用框架来调查民间的在线行为理论，从而丰富现有的文献，这些理论是通过用户的实际互动实践来争议和构建的。

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Bumble’s ticking clock: Dating app temporal design as neoliberal discipline Bumble的滴答时钟：约会应用时间设计作为新自由主义学科

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Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100897

Riki Thompson

This study examines Bumble’s self-positioning as a feminist dating app through a critical lens that combines theories of disciplinary technologies and governmentality with a neoliberal postfeminist framework. While Bumble markets women’s empowerment through its “first-move” feature, this research investigates how the platform’s 24-hour messaging requirement creates temporal constraints that potentially undermine its stated feminist goals. By analyzing how these time-based features influence user behavior and create additional forms of labor for women—communicative, relational, and postdigital—this study reveals tensions between Bumble’s empowerment claims and its disciplinary mechanisms. The research combines multimodal critical discourse analysis and ethnographic approaches to examine how Bumble’s marketing discourses and interface design construct and reinforce particular notions of gender empowerment while simultaneously subjecting users to new forms of control. This paper contributes to our understanding of how dating platforms serve as sites of engagement where gender, platform design, and social practices converge to normalize certain behaviors within tightly controlled temporal and interactive parameters.

本研究通过将学科技术和治理理论与新自由主义后女权主义框架相结合的批判性视角，考察了Bumble作为女权主义约会应用程序的自我定位。虽然Bumble通过其“第一步”功能推销女性赋权，但这项研究调查了该平台24小时的消息传递要求如何造成时间限制，这可能会破坏其宣称的女权主义目标。通过分析这些基于时间的特征如何影响用户行为，并为女性创造额外的劳动形式——交流、关系和后数字——本研究揭示了Bumble的授权主张与其纪律机制之间的紧张关系。该研究结合了多模态批判性话语分析和民族志方法，研究Bumble的营销话语和界面设计如何构建和强化性别赋权的特定概念，同时使用户受到新的控制形式。这篇论文有助于我们理解约会平台是如何成为社交网站的，在这里，性别、平台设计和社会实践汇聚在一起，在严格控制的时间和互动参数内使某些行为正常化。

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Where there is suffering, there is sharing: Sharing discourse by Chinese breast cancer patients on social media 哪里有痛苦，哪里就有分享：中国乳腺癌患者在社交媒体上分享话语

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Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100896

Yue Zhao , Yansheng Mao , Kaihang Zhao

This study explores themes of the sharing discourse by 40 Chinese breast cancer patients and their thematic features across different disease stages on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media platform. The results show that Chinese breast cancer patients’ sharing discourse is mainly oriented towards disease information, personal emotions, and social relationships. Across the four stages of breast cancer, there is an overall increasing tendency of the patient’s orientation towards personal emotions and social relationships, but a decrease in disease information. The study highlights sharing discourse in virtual spaces can cross-sectionally reflect patients’ attitudes and beliefs about cancer, suggesting digital sharing can be approached and initiated as empathy-charged support outlets for cancer patients across stages.

本研究探讨了40名中国乳腺癌患者在微博（中国流行的社交媒体平台）上分享话语的主题及其在不同疾病阶段的主题特征。结果表明，中国乳腺癌患者的分享话语主要面向疾病信息、个人情感和社会关系。在乳腺癌的四个阶段中，患者对个人情感和社会关系的倾向总体上呈上升趋势，但对疾病的了解有所减少。该研究强调，在虚拟空间中分享话语可以横截面反映患者对癌症的态度和信念，这表明数字分享可以作为跨阶段癌症患者的移情支持渠道进行和启动。

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The intersection of corporate discourse and platform design: A study of WhatsApp’s corporate blog and website 企业话语与平台设计的交集：以WhatsApp的企业博客和网站为例

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Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100893

Agnese Sampietro

Scholars interested in users’ interactional discourse on WhatsApp need to better understand the corporate interests and commercial motives embedded in the app. Critical media scholars have investigated the intersection of digital design and user agency by examining how technical, social, and economic factors affect the evolution, design, and use of a range of platforms. This study explores the development of WhatsApp’s corporate discourse, showing how design changes and significant shifts in the company’s self-presentation align with the app’s ‘platformization’. WhatsApp initially marketed its messaging service as innovative and interoperable on its website and blog, but its discourse subsequently shifted to emphasizing intimate conversations with close friends and the constant assurance of user privacy, aligning with Meta’s broader discourse on the future of messaging. Nevertheless, the analysis revealed incongruities between the company’s emphasis on user privacy and its commercial interests which prioritize other forms of engagement, such as communicating with businesses. This study ultimately demonstrates the significance of corporate discourse in exposing the economic interests that shape the design of a mobile messenger and the need to consider these interests when examining WhatsApp communication.

对用户在WhatsApp上的互动话语感兴趣的学者需要更好地理解应用程序中嵌入的企业利益和商业动机。批判性媒体学者通过研究技术、社会和经济因素如何影响一系列平台的演变、设计和使用，研究了数字设计和用户代理的交叉点。本研究探讨了WhatsApp公司话语的发展，展示了公司自我展示的设计变化和重大转变如何与应用程序的“平台化”保持一致。WhatsApp最初在其网站和博客上宣传其即时通讯服务是创新的、可互操作的，但随后它的话语转向强调与亲密朋友的亲密对话，以及对用户隐私的持续保证，这与Meta关于即时通讯未来的更广泛的话语一致。然而，分析显示，该公司对用户隐私的重视与其优先考虑其他形式的参与（如与企业沟通）的商业利益之间存在不协调。本研究最终证明了企业话语在揭示塑造移动信使设计的经济利益方面的重要性，以及在检查WhatsApp通信时考虑这些利益的必要性。

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Discursive practices of blame during the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese Weibo COVID-19大流行期间中国微博上的指责话语实践

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Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100895

Ying Jin , Dennis Tay

The participatory affordance of web platforms has encouraged ordinary users’ participation in sociopolitical issues and opened up new channels for public opinion expression, particularly to blame authorities for their perceived wrongdoings. The current critical discourse analysis study contributes to this scholarship by investigating bottom-up discursive practices on user-generated texts on Weibo, the most widely used social media website in China. Using Social Media Critical Discourse Studies, we examine how netizens blame the elite group for their money and mask donations during the COVID-19 pandemic. They do this by constructing an identity for the elites as norm-breaching, outliers, and criminals, in contrast to their own norm-monitoring and judicial identity, thereby justifying the blame on the elites. Several discursive practices were identified with varying degrees of rationality and affectivity. Data includes comments presented in both textual and image forms.

网络平台的参与性支持鼓励了普通用户参与社会政治问题，并为民意表达开辟了新的渠道，特别是指责当局的错误行为。当前的批评话语分析研究通过调查微博（中国使用最广泛的社交媒体网站）上用户生成文本的自下而上话语实践，为这一学术研究做出了贡献。利用社交媒体批评话语研究，我们研究了在COVID-19大流行期间，网民如何指责精英群体的金钱和面具捐款。他们通过构建精英的身份来实现这一点，将精英视为违反规范的人、局外人和罪犯，与他们自己的规范监督和司法身份形成对比，从而证明对精英的指责是合理的。几个话语实践被确定为不同程度的理性和情感。数据包括以文字和图像两种形式提出的评论。

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Sharing as informal teaching: Identity construction of an English learner/teacher microcelebrity on Douyin 作为非正式教学的分享：抖音英语学习者/教师微名人的身份建构

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Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100888

Yaqian Jiang , Camilla Vásquez

Previous research has demonstrated that informal language learning and teaching activities occur through user-generated content on popular video-sharing platforms. As individuals can claim varying degrees of authority in the knowledge they transmit to others, the identity constructions relevant to digital knowledge production represents a topic that demands more scholarly attention from a discursive, social, as well as pedagogical perspective. To address this issue, this paper takes a case study approach to exploring the self-presentation of a popular Tibetan content creator on Douyin, Jiadecang, who shares short English language learning vlogs featuring himself practicing spoken English that are designed to attract followers. Taking a social semiotic approach to the analysis of multimodal discourse (Bezemer and Jewitt, 2025, Kress, 2010, Kress and van Leeuwen, 2006), this study investigates how Jiadecang harnesses various linguistic and other semiotic resources afforded by the platform to engage in public identity construction in his videos. By projecting identities of both learner and “teacher” simultaneously, Jiadecang attracts followers interested in learning English and, at the same time, is protected from potential critiques by others about his “imperfect” English. This study adds to a growing body of research on digital genres, self-branding practices, and influencer cultures.

之前的研究表明，非正式的语言学习和教学活动是通过用户在流行的视频分享平台上生成的内容进行的。由于个人可以在他们传递给他人的知识中声称不同程度的权威，与数字知识生产相关的身份结构代表了一个从话语、社会和教学角度需要更多学术关注的主题。为了解决这个问题，本文采用案例研究的方法来探索抖音上一位受欢迎的藏语内容创作者“加德堂”的自我展示，他分享了自己练习英语口语的短视频，旨在吸引粉丝。本研究采用社会符号学方法分析多模态话语（Bezemer and Jewitt, 2025; Kress, 2010; Kress and van Leeuwen, 2006），研究贾德康如何利用平台提供的各种语言和其他符号学资源，在其视频中参与公共身份建构。通过同时突出学习者和“老师”的身份，嘉德堂吸引了对英语学习感兴趣的追随者，同时也避免了别人对他“不完美”英语的批评。这项研究增加了对数字类型、自我品牌实践和影响者文化的研究。

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Performing Couplings: Communing affiliation through bullet curtains in live stream 表演联结：在直播中通过弹幕交流联系

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Discourse Context & Media

Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100890

Jian Shan , Huan Yu

This paper provides insights into how viewers commune affiliation through bullet curtains in live stream. Due to the apparently chaotic form of live stream interactions and streamers’ central role in holding live stream shows, previous research either sees live stream interactions as disordered or over-emphasizes the role of streamers in mustering the community. This study argues that viewers can also affiliate with co-viewers by performing in bullet curtains. To account for this particular way of affiliation, this study localizes the Ambient Affiliation theory in systemic-functional linguistics with the help of the linguistic-anthropological theory of stage performance. Through the analysis of 50 h’ recording of live stream shows, this paper finds that although the strategies of Ambient Affiliation are still adopted in live stream, the realization of them is different. Instead of addressing potential readers as in other forms of social media, viewers here dialogue with streamers and commune affiliation by performing the ideation-attitude couplings in their dialogical comments on the virtual stage of live stream. The performances targeting couplings brought up by streamers would adjust the dialogical space of these couplings (FINESS), and those targeting couplings in viewers’ bullet curtains would interpersonally foreground an entire coupling (PROMOTE). Viewers may also meta-perform to remind audiences of upcoming performances and in this way attribute couplings to target audiences (CONVOKE). Meanwhile, as viewers need to steal the spotlight of streamers by building their performances on streamers’, not only is stylization employed to invoke more powerful voices so as to compete with streamers, but the resulting logico-semantic dependency also sets constraints on the semantic choices of their performances.

本文提供了观众如何通过子弹幕在直播中交流联系的见解。由于直播互动的混乱形式和主播在举办直播节目中的核心作用，先前的研究要么认为直播互动是无序的，要么过分强调主播在聚集社区中的作用。这项研究认为，观众也可以通过在子弹幕中表演来与共同观众建立联系。为了解释这种特殊的联系方式，本研究借助舞台表演的语言人类学理论，将环境联系理论定位于系统功能语言学。通过对50小时的直播节目记录进行分析，本文发现虽然在直播中仍然采用了Ambient Affiliation策略，但是实现方式有所不同。这里的观众不像其他形式的社交媒体那样与潜在的读者对话，而是通过在直播的虚拟舞台上进行对话评论，实现思想-态度的耦合，与主播和公社的联系。主播提出的以耦合为目标的表演会调整耦合的对话空间（FINESS），观众弹幕中以耦合为目标的表演会将整个耦合置于人际关系的前景（PROMOTE）。观众也可以通过元表演来提醒观众即将到来的表演，并以这种方式将属性耦合到目标观众（CONVOKE）。同时，由于观众需要在主播的基础上构建自己的表演，从而抢去主播的风头，因此，风格化不仅是为了唤起更强大的声音，从而与主播竞争，而且由此产生的逻辑语义依赖也限制了他们表演的语义选择。

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Mediatizing distant suffering: A longitudinal analysis of The New York Times’ coverage of famine in Somalia (1960–2021) 调解遥远的苦难：《纽约时报》对索马里饥荒报道的纵向分析（1960-2021）

IF 2.3 2区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse Context & Media

Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100891

Wenxue Zou

Grounded in mediatization theory, this article unpacks the discourse strategies employed by The New York Times in its coverage of Somali famine from 1960 to 2021, with analytical lens anchored in the social construction of reality. Through a multimodal critical discourse analysis of 819 reports, the study reveals that the media adopt different strategies to depict famine and famine victims in response to the ever-evolving US-Somalia relationship. The portrayal of international relief operations serves to reinforce the heroic image of developed countries while perpetuating the dichotomy between “us” and “them” in the international political structure. This framing implicitly constructs Western moral legitimacy through saviorist rhetoric while positioning distant suffering as a passive object of rescue, a discursive strategy that mirrors and perpetuates power asymmetries in the media coverage. The current research contributes to mediatization scholarship by reconceptualizing it as a mnemonic practice of power, wherein media institutions do not merely record historical events but actively curate collective memory, transforming distant suffering into consumable scenes of humanitarian drama.

本文以媒介化理论为基础，以现实的社会建构为分析视角，揭示了《纽约时报》在1960年至2021年报道索马里饥荒时所采用的话语策略。通过对819篇报道的多模态批评话语分析，该研究揭示了媒体采用不同的策略来描述饥荒和饥荒受害者，以应对不断发展的美国-索马里关系。对国际救济行动的描述有助于加强发达国家的英雄形象，同时使国际政治结构中的“我们”和“他们”之间的二分法永久化。这种框架通过救世主义的修辞含蓄地构建了西方的道德合法性，同时将遥远的苦难定位为被动的救援对象，这种话语策略反映并延续了媒体报道中的权力不对称。当前的研究通过将其重新定义为权力的记忆实践，从而有助于媒介化学术，其中媒体机构不仅记录历史事件，而且积极策划集体记忆，将遥远的苦难转化为人道主义戏剧中可消费的场景。

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‘She can’t hide her belly any longer’: Online headlines about celebrity pregnancies as small stories “她的肚子再也藏不住了”：网上头条把明星怀孕当成小故事

IF 2.3 2区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse Context & Media

Pub Date : 2025-05-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100889

Martina Podboj

This study explores how online headlines about celebrity pregnancies function as small stories, i.e., a salient genre of narrative discourse often found in online spaces (Georgakopoulou, 2006, Georgakopoulou, 2022) and how online news outlets mediate these narratives. It also examines the role of clickbait in shaping the discourse around celebrity pregnancy. The study is based on the analysis of a corpus of Croatian news headlines from top-read outlets collected during 2023, and focuses on narrative positioning, stancetaking strategies, and the construction and distribution of headlines as mediated action (Scollon, 2001). The findings reveal that news outlets systematically rely on the small story format in to employ repetitive clickbait strategies that reinforce hegemonic discourses surrounding pregnant celebrities. Headlines consistently scrutinize celebrities’ appearance, age, and behavior during pregnancy, with particular emphasis on the visibility of the pregnant belly, which the celebrities are depicted as either “showing” or “hiding.” This narrative positioning functions as a salient clickbait strategy, drawing readers into familiar and often problematic portrayals of pregnancy. The study concludes that narrative strategies and clickbait are deeply intertwined in the observed headlines, highlighting how news outlets leverage their most distinctive digital affordance, i.e., clickbait, to construct and reinforce gendered media discourses.

本研究探讨了关于名人怀孕的网络头条如何作为小故事发挥作用，即在网络空间中经常发现的一种突出的叙事话语类型（Georgakopoulou, 2006; Georgakopoulou, 2022），以及在线新闻媒体如何调解这些叙事。它还探讨了标题党在塑造围绕名人怀孕的话语中的作用。该研究基于对2023年期间收集的热门媒体克罗地亚新闻标题语料库的分析，并侧重于叙事定位、立场策略以及作为中介行为的标题的构建和分发（Scollon, 2001）。研究结果表明，新闻媒体系统地依赖于小故事的形式，采用重复的标题党策略，强化围绕怀孕名人的霸权话语。头条新闻总是对明星的外表、年龄和怀孕期间的行为进行审查，特别强调怀孕肚子的可见性，明星们要么“露出”肚子，要么“隐藏”肚子。这种叙事定位是一种明显的标题党策略，将读者吸引到熟悉的、往往有问题的怀孕描述中。该研究的结论是，在观察到的标题中，叙事策略和标题党深深交织在一起，突出了新闻媒体如何利用他们最独特的数字资源，即标题党，来构建和强化性别化的媒体话语。

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