Juan He. Weibo news package: A systemic functional perspective on the text-reader relationship. Cham: Springer, 2025. xvi + 167 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-75491-3 (HB)

Reviewed by

Yumeng Wang | Ocean University of China

Lu Li | Ocean University of China

Lianrui Yang | Ocean University of China

Published online: 25 September 2025

https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.00072.wan

References (5)

References

Abdelrahim, Azza A. M. 2024. Semiotic modes accentuating learners’ metafunctions: The systemic functional approach to multimodal discourse analysis. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 42(2). 203–219.

Bouvier, Gwen & Lyndon C. S. Way. 2021. Revealing the politics in ‘soft’, everyday uses of social media: The challenge for Critical Discourse Studies. Social Semiotics 31(3). 345–364.

O’Hagan, Lauren Alex. 2024. In search of the social in social semiotics: a historical perspective. Social Semiotics 34(4). 634–655.

Younas, Ahtisham, Sergi Fàbregues, Angela Durante, Elsa L. Escalante, Shahzad Inayat & Parveen Ali. 2023. Proposing the ‘MIRACLE’ narrative framework for providing thick description in qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 221. 1–13.

Zappavigna, Michele & Lorenzo Logi. 2024. How emoji make meaning and enact ambient affiliation: a social semiotic account of emoji-text relations in TikTok comments. Social Semiotics 35(4). 617–637.

Juan He. Weibo news package: A systemic functional perspective on the text-reader relationship. Cham: Springer, 2025. xvi + 167 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-75491-3 (HB)

Juan He. Weibo news package: A systemic functional perspective on the text-reader relationship. Cham: Springer, 2025. xvi + 167 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-75491-3 (HB)