Aubrey Tang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Aubrey Tang is involved.

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Tang, Aubrey 2022 The parasites of language: “President Trump, please liberate Hong Kong” When Dialogue Fails, Müller-Wood, Anja (ed.), pp. 35–53 | Article
This article examines how “parasitical” political language can help explore a new understanding of oppositional opinions in a global context of political polarization. By parasitical political language, I refer to what speech act theorist J.L. Austin calls “infelicitous speech acts”, language… read more
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