Hsi-Yao Su

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hsi-Yao Su is involved.

Journal

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication

Edited by Henning Klöter and Ke Zhang

ISSN 0957-6851 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9838

Articles

Chang, Wei-Lin Melody, Michael Haugh and Hsi-Yao Su 2021 Taking it too far: The role of ideological discourses in contesting the limits of teasing and offence Pragmatics 31:3, pp. 382–405 | Article

While teasing can cause offence, participants on television variety or game shows are generally expected to tolerate it. In this paper, we examine comments posted on YouTube in response to reports of a leaked recording of a television host in Taiwan swearing at and insulting a guest who teased… read more

Su, Hsi-Yao 2009 Reconstructing Taiwanese and Taiwan Guoyu on the Taiwan-based Internet: Playfulness, stylization, and politeness Media Discourse in Greater China, Kuo, Sai-hua and Doreen D. Wu (eds.), pp. 313–335 | Article

This study investigates a type of online language play popularized on the Taiwan-based Internet, including the rendering in Chinese characters of the sounds of Taiwanese and Taiwan Guoyu (Taiwanese-accented Mandarin), which are defined as Stylized Taiwanese and Stylized Taiwanese-accented Mandarin,… read more