Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh is involved.
Articles
2014 The interaction between Mandarin Chinese and English: Online language is changing contemporary Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:1, pp. 113–133 | Article
This paper explores the linguistic and interactional properties of computer-mediated communication in Taiwan. We collected data from messages posted asynchronously on Internet websites. The three primary sources of messages were, in volume order, online Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), chatrooms, and… read more
2014 Humorous communication in social and political issues: A case study of a Celebrity Imitation Show International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1:2, pp. 275–292 | Article
Humor is a common and effective rhetoric strategy for conveying ideas. This paper examines scripts from Celebrity Imitation Show, a Taiwanese TV program, and investigates characteristics of humorous expressions via the Asymmetry Approach (Viana 2010). More specifically, we examined: (1) how… read more