Yu-Che Yen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yu-Che Yen is involved.
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2024 Xiaosi ‘die laughing’ as a discourse marker: A Corpus-based study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan Words in the World, Teddiman, Laura, Lori Buchanan and Hamad Al-Azary (eds.), pp. 180–188 | Article
This study investigates the usage of 笑死 (xiaosi hereafter, ‘laugh-die; die laughing’) in Facebook posts retrieved during Taiwan’s level-3 COVID-19 alert period (5/15/2021–7/26/2021). The analysis of xiaosi revealed that it serves two major functions: (a) as its literal meaning, ‘to laugh to… read more
