Dezheng (William) FENG
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dezheng (William) FENG is involved.
Articles
2022 Tradition, modernity, and Chinese masculinity: The multimodal construction of ideal manhood in a reality dating show Pragmatics 32:2, pp. 191–217 | Article
This article examines the multimodal construction of ideal manhood in male participants’ self-introduction videos in a Chinese reality dating show. A framework is developed to model identity as evaluative attributes and to explicate how they are constructed through linguistic and visual… read more
2018 Language, attitudes and party politics: The representation of Republicans and Democrats in Presidential weekly addresses Pragmatics and Society 9:2, pp. 232–251 | Article
This study investigates Barack Obama’s attitudes towards Republicans and Democrats by analyzing a corpus of 249 Presidential weekly addresses. Analysis shows that Obama’s attitudes towards the Republicans are characterized by a negative judgment of propriety, creating a negative image of the… read more