Yongping Ran
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yongping Ran is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2213-1272 | E‑ISSN 2213‑1280
2025 Genuine or ostensible politeness? A diachronic study of qingwen in Chinese directives Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3, pp. 380–405 | Article
This study examines the use of qingwen (an honorific request marker) across three different historical periods in China and unravels the evolved relationship between qingwen-initiated directives of information-seeking and Chinese politeness. Drawing on the CCL Corpus, this study reveals that:… read more
2025 How public discourse functions to restore moral orders: Online impolite comments on corporate apologies Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Previous research has extensively examined corporate apologies as webcare in public settings. However, it has paid less attention to apologies made directly to the public despite their potential to evoke responses that reflect social expectations. This study examines corporate public apology… read more
2024 Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation Pragmatics and Society 15:2, pp. 295–319 | Article
Previous research has investigated aspects of deontics, epistemics, and resistance in medical settings. However, few have focused on deontics and how resistance shapes the responses of deontic authority (Stivers and Timmermans 2020), especially in online medical counseling. Utilizing the data… read more
2020 The rite of reintegrative shaming in Chinese public dispute mediation The Pragmatics of Ritual, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 40–63 | Article
This paper examines the ways in which mediators deploy the rite of public shaming in the activity type of public mediation, as a pragmatic device by means of which they exert social control. Our data consists of episodes of public mediation events in rural China, aired in the Chinese Television.… read more
2019 Dániel Z. Kádár. (2017). Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific, Parvaresh, Vahid and Grace Zhang (eds.), pp. 133–139 | Review
2016 The role of metapragmatic expressions as pragmatic manipulation in a TV panel discussion program Pragmatics and Society 7:3, pp. 463–481 | Article
This study explores the role of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) as pragmatic manipulation in a media context, with data drawn from a Chinese TV panel discussion program Tiger Talk. It argues that the program host selects MPEs to manipulate the ongoing interactions, in order to solve or prevent… read more