Jilan Wei
Biographic Data
| ID | 6489802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jilan Wei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jilan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wei |
| SIGNATURE | WEI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Changzhou Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6474-3012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dynamics of English gratitude expression
With a focus on politicians’ and medical experts’ gratitude expressions in UK government COVID-19 briefings, this research describes how perspective and intensity were modulated in expressing gratitude to realise different pragmatic intentions. This corpus-assisted analysis finds that retrospective or prospective gratitude expression was adopted by the two British elite groups to build solidarity (encouraging) and/or make requests (directing) for…
I think and I know
This research examines the politicians' and experts' use of the two evidential markers I think and I know for authority and solidarity in UK government Covid briefings based on a corpus-assisted analysis. It not only analyses their evidential constructions, but also explicates their discursive functions in the British cultural context when public health was under challenge. It aims to demonstrate the different epistemic and affective stances of B…
Kindness in British communities
This research adopts Critical Discourse Analysis as a perspective to explore how kindness was expressed and promoted in university communities and city communities from January to March in 2020 when the Covid pandemic broke out in the UK and provide a window on British culture in which kindness was expressed and promoted through discourse. It combines a qualitative method with a corpus-based quantitative method. It is found that kindness was mean…
Please wear a face mask
Kindness in British communities
This research adopts Critical Discourse Analysis as a perspective to explore how kindness was expressed and promoted in university communities and city communities from January to March in 2020 when the Covid pandemic broke out in the UK and provide a window on British culture in which kindness was expressed and promoted through discourse. It combines a qualitative method with a corpus-based quantitative method. It is found that kindness was mean…
Please wear a face mask
Dynamics of English gratitude expression
With a focus on politicians’ and medical experts’ gratitude expressions in UK government COVID-19 briefings, this research describes how perspective and intensity were modulated in expressing gratitude to realise different pragmatic intentions. This corpus-assisted analysis finds that retrospective or prospective gratitude expression was adopted by the two British elite groups to build solidarity (encouraging) and/or make requests (directing) for…
I think and I know
This research examines the politicians' and experts' use of the two evidential markers I think and I know for authority and solidarity in UK government Covid briefings based on a corpus-assisted analysis. It not only analyses their evidential constructions, but also explicates their discursive functions in the British cultural context when public health was under challenge. It aims to demonstrate the different epistemic and affective stances of B…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)