Kerry Sluchinski

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kerry Sluchinski is involved.

Articles

Sluchinski, Kerry 2024 Ta as an emergent language practice of audience design in CMC Narrative Inquiry 34:1, pp. 78–105 | Article

This study examines the use of ungendered third person Chinese pronoun ta in digital first-and-third person voiced discourses (i.e. small stories). The study asks what implications the script choice ta, as opposed to gendered 他 ta ‘he’ and 她 ta ‘she’, has for audience design… read more

Sluchinski, Kerry 2023 Pronoun TA as a facilitator of empathy in Chinese digital narratives Chinese Language and Discourse 14:2, pp. 301–327 | Article

This article presents findings pertaining to digital you-narratives in which ungendered third person Chinese pronoun ta is embedded. The study asks what implications the script choice ta, as opposed to gendered 他 ta ‘he’ and 她 ta ‘she’, has for the facilitation of situational… read more