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Language as Social Practice on the Chinese Internet

Language as Social Practice on the Chinese Internet
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Author(s): Elaine J. Yuan (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 16
Source title: Computer-Mediated Communication across Cultures: International Interactions in Online Environments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kirk St.Amant (East Carolina University, USA)and Sigrid Kelsey (Louisiana State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-833-0.ch018

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Abstract

This chapter presents a discourse analysis of two bulletin board systems (BBS). The analysis was done to identify online linguistic practices within the contextualized parameters of online communities and ongoing sociopolitical development in China. Chinese Internet users employ various discourse strategies to establish community identities, organize online interactions, and defy censorship. These practices demarcate an emergent, public, non-official discourse universe apart from but responsive to the official discourse universe of Chinese political communication.

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