Wenrui Shi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wenrui Shi is involved.
Articles
2026 Unsolicited advice in mediatised Chinese New Year celebrations: An interaction ritual approach Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates advice-giving during Chinese New Year family celebrations when older relatives tend to provide unsolicited advice for younger family members. First, we consider New Year advice featured in social media recordings through the lens of interaction ritual, using a corpus of… read more
2023 Historical language use in Europe from a contrastive pragmatic perspective: An exploratory case study of letter closings Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 143–159 | Article
This paper presents a case study which brings together the fields of contrastive pragmatics and historical pragmatics. Specifically, we contrastively investigate the ways in which the speech act set of “farewell” – representing the closing phase of an interaction – was realised in… read more