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Rickey Lu

Biographic Data

ID3591896
NAMERickey Lu
GIVEN NAMESRickey
FAMILY NAMELu
SIGNATURELU R
AFFILIATIONSHong Kong Polytechnic University
ORCID0000-0003-3239-0130
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1
  • Advice perceptions and upvote pragmatics: An experimental analysis of Reddit advice-giving dynamics

    Open Access•Rickey Lu•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2026

    This study examines how linguistic formulations influence our perceptions of advice within the computer-mediated context of Reddit, bridging the gap between linguistics and other disciplines. A between-subjects experiment was designed to both explore a selection of advice-giving moves on Reddit and to better understand Reddit's upvote system. Using frameworks from communication and social psychology to examine the underlying effect of linguistic …

  • Understanding online advice-giving evaluations through the politeness evaluation model

    Open Access•Rickey Lu•ARTICLE•Journal of Politeness Research•2025•References: 12

    One of the most popular online sites where advice interactions routinely occur is Reddit. As a predominately public platform, Reddit users presumably extend beyond only registered contributors. Thus, it is important to examine Reddit advice outside of the interactional or discursive level (e.g., exploring perceptions from other audience types). To bridge this gap, an experiment was designed based on a previous study on Reddit advice-giving, which…

  • Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting

    Open Access•Rickey Lu, P Baker•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2025•References: 6

    Festivals and events are becoming an increasingly important part of economies around the world. However, they can result in negative impacts to the environment via waste and carbon emissions. Wonderfruit, a popular annual arts and music festival held in Thailand, espouses eco-friendliness and environmentalism among its key tenets. Perhaps in line with these principles, Wonderfruit is also one of the few festival organizers that publishes corporat…

  • Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit

    Open Access•Rickey Lu•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 34

  • Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit

    Open Access•Rickey Lu•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 34

  • Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit

    Open Access•Rickey Lu•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 34

  • Understanding online advice-giving evaluations through the politeness evaluation model

    Open Access•Rickey Lu•ARTICLE•Journal of Politeness Research•2025•References: 12

    One of the most popular online sites where advice interactions routinely occur is Reddit. As a predominately public platform, Reddit users presumably extend beyond only registered contributors. Thus, it is important to examine Reddit advice outside of the interactional or discursive level (e.g., exploring perceptions from other audience types). To bridge this gap, an experiment was designed based on a previous study on Reddit advice-giving, which…

  • Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting

    Open Access•Rickey Lu, P Baker•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2025•References: 6

    Festivals and events are becoming an increasingly important part of economies around the world. However, they can result in negative impacts to the environment via waste and carbon emissions. Wonderfruit, a popular annual arts and music festival held in Thailand, espouses eco-friendliness and environmentalism among its key tenets. Perhaps in line with these principles, Wonderfruit is also one of the few festival organizers that publishes corporat…

  • Advice perceptions and upvote pragmatics: An experimental analysis of Reddit advice-giving dynamics

    Open Access•Rickey Lu•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2026

    This study examines how linguistic formulations influence our perceptions of advice within the computer-mediated context of Reddit, bridging the gap between linguistics and other disciplines. A between-subjects experiment was designed to both explore a selection of advice-giving moves on Reddit and to better understand Reddit's upvote system. Using frameworks from communication and social psychology to examine the underlying effect of linguistic …

Digital Communication and Language (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Advice (programming (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Politeness (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Advice (programming) (1 works) · Affordance (1 works)

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