Yi Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yi Zhang is involved.
Articles
2025 “Do not approach men. You will be miserable.”: Feminist humor in “misandry” memes on Chinese microblogging Internet Pragmatics 8:1, pp. 58–85 | Article
This study investigates a type of internet memes, namely, “misandry memes,” which often exhibit critical evaluations of heterosexual males and traditional masculinity in China. Drawing on the notion of feminist humor, we examine how “misandry” memes assemble semiotic resources for humorous… read more
2024 The use of Google Translate for language learning in emergency forced displacement contexts: Ukrainian adult learners of English in Australia Decolonising or Recolonising?: Generative AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and learners, Dobinson, Toni, Julian Chen and Carly Steele (eds.), pp. 309–339 | Article
This paper explores the use of Google Translate (GT) by displaced people (DPs) from Ukraine in Australia and English language educators supporting learners from refugee backgrounds in the context of decolonizing language learning. The survey and interviews with DP participants revealed that GT… read more