W Ren
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 34511 |
|---|---|
| NOME | W Ren |
| PRENOMES | W |
| SOBRENOME | Ren |
| ASSINATURA | REN W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Beihang University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6121-1846 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
English-Chinese bilingual instruction in EFL secondary classroom in China
This study investigates how Chinese secondary school students and teachers navigate English language learning through translanguaging practices in South-Eastern China, drawing on data obtained from classroom observations and interviews with teachers from secondary schools from rural and urban contexts of China. In this qualitative study, we analyzed the data thematically under the translanguaging perspective in teaching and learning of English. T…
Teachers’ practices and perceptions of translanguaging in a trilingual minority context
Translanguaging challenges monolingual ideologies that conceptualize languages as discrete and separate systems in education. While an expanding body of research has examined translanguaging in bilingual schooling, less attention has been paid to how teachers mediate multilingual repertoires in trilingual minority school contexts, particularly in China. Addressing this gap, the present study investigates teachers’ practices and perceptions of tra…
Strategic responses to negative self-assessment requests in job interviews
Oversharing as topic negotiation in threaded social media discourse
This study examines oversharing, the disclosure of personal or affective information that exceeds contextual expectations, as an interactional practice in social media discourse. Adopting a discourse-pragmatic perspective, this study shifts attention from individual intention to interactional recognition and analyzes how boundary-crossing talk is oriented to and evaluated in comment-thread interactions on Xiaohongshu (Red), a major Chinese platfo…
Framing digital intimacy through multimodal role-play
Differences between Chinese and Western English-speaking teachers in providing disagreement in EFL teaching in China
Disagreement is face-threatening but necessary for teachers to correct errors and prompt learning. However, little research has examined how teachers employ disagreement as feedback, especially from a multimodal perspective. This study investigated the differences in linguistic markers (LMs) and accompanying nonverbal behaviours (NVBs) associated with disagreements between Western English-speaking teachers (L1 teachers) and Chinese English teache…
Effects of gender and generation on Chinese self-praise on social media
Self-praise is an often-examined topic in pragmatics studies, but it has rarely been investigated from the point of view of variational pragmatics. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of gender and generation on Chinese self-praise on social media. A total of 400 self-praise posts were collected from Weibo, the Chinese version of X (formerly Twitter), from eighty participants (forty females and forty males). The analysis found that fema…
The discourse of sharing in digital spaces – Power, identity, and community
Nicola Halenko and Jiayi Wang
Comparison between Chinese and Japanese self-praise on social media
A comparative study of pragmatic performance of internal modification in continuation tasks of online reviews
The roles of language mindsets and willingness to communicate in receptive pragmatic competence among Chinese EFL learners
Language mindsets and L2 willingness to communicate (L2 WTC) are closely related and have contributed greatly to learners' L2 learning achievements under the SLA paradigm. However, relatively less attention has been given to the influence of language mindsets and L2 WTC on L2 pragmatic acquisition. This paper aims to examine the potential influence of language mindsets and L2 WTC on receptive pragmatic competence, which further includes pragmatic…
The influence of task complexity and task modality on learners’ topic and turn management
Peer interaction is examined as an important indicator of performance in task-based language learning. However, little research has explored learners’ interactional competence under the influences of task factors. This study investigates the effects of task complexity and task modality on learners’ interactional competence in terms of topic management and turn management. Four tasks were designed – written-simple, written-complex, oral-simple, an…
Functions, sociocultural explanations and conversational influence of discourse markers
This study explores the ways that L2 learners develop their knowledge in understanding the pragmatic functions of a Chinese discourse marker (DM), zenme shuo ne (‘how to say’), and examines three interrelated aspects in pragmatic knowledge of this DM. Using metapragmatic interviews, emic data are collected from sixteen L2 Chinese learners and nineteen L1 Chinese speakers. The data are analysed using both qualitative methods and computational mode…
Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events
Collective attacks related to controversial issues are pervasive in online communication. However, public opinion is often reversed later when earlier reports are revealed to be misinformation, which may lead to remedies offered to the victim by netizens. We call such phenomena online public opinion reversal (POR) events, which reflect group polarization from attack to remedy. This paper explores the pragmatic strategies that netizens employ to l…
Translanguaging in self-praise on Chinese social media
Self-praise is very common on social media, and various translanguaging strategies are often used by internet users in online communication. Most of the existing studies on self-praise have centered on strategies for self-praise, ignoring the multimodal communication styles involved. On the other hand, although translanguaging has attracted significant research attention in linguistics and multilingual education, few studies have explored transla…
Ironic criticisms and responses on Chinese social media
Ironic criticisms in online interactions are very common, but have rarely been examined. Following the concept of (non)propositional irony, this study investigates how online ironic criticisms are produced and responded to. The findings were derived from a mixed-methods analysis of 200 comments and 1,140 responses collected from Weibo. The analysis offers a computer-mediated taxonomy and identifies four subtypes of ironic criticisms, with differe…
The influences of proficiency and gender on Uyghur-Mandarin children’s advice-giving
Mandarin Chinese, as the national lingua franca in China, has gained increasing importance in bilingual education in ethnic minority areas in the country. However, little research has explored ethnic minority children’s pragmatic competence. Therefore, this study investigates ethnic Uyghur children’s written pragmatic performance of advice-giving through a brief note in Mandarin and the possible effects of proficiency and gender on their advice-g…
Sharing second stories in online comforting interactions
Emotional labour in comforting strangers on social media
Emotional support on social media has become a popular way for people to seek comfort when facing failures and frustrations. This paper investigates the social practice of comforting strangers on the Chinese social media platform Douban . The emotional labour framework was adopted to examine the ways in which the comforting practice managed the emotions of both the comfortee and the comforter. A dataset of 400 replies was collected from Douban to…
The complexities and dynamics of pragmatics of sharing on social media
Low spirits vs. high spirits
Fostering self-regulated learning-focused feedback
Responses to refusal in online recruitment communication
A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Second Language Pragmatics Instruction
This study investigates the effects of instruction on second language (L2) pragmatic competence and the factors that moderate the effectiveness of pragmatics instruction. A comprehensive literature search yielded 29 primary studies that involved 1,898 L2 learners, generating 54 effect sizes for between-group contrasts. Aggregated results showed that pragmatics instruction had a large, positive effect on the development of pragmatic competence, g …
Self-praise on Chinese social networking sites
"What is "Versailles Literature
Pragmatic development of Chinese during study abroad
Tracking the trajectories of international students’ pragmatic choices in studying abroad in China
This paper reports on a longitudinal study that investigated how international students’ personal network mediated their pragmatic choices during studying abroad in China. Data were collected over a year through different ways, including Study Abroad Network Questionnaire, role-plays, retrospective verbal reports, ethnographic interviews and observation field notes. Findings showed that with respect to pragmatic performance, the students exercise…
Chinese females׳ date refusals in reality TV shows
Variational pragmatics in Chinese social media requests
Chinese young people's attitudes towards translanguaging in self-praise on social media
Low spirits vs. high spirits
Exploring Chinese digital communication
This is so skrrrrr’ – creative translanguaging by Chinese micro-blogging users
This study investigates the use of a popular online expression ‘skr’ by Chinese micro-blogging users on Weibo. Used originally as a hip-hop term for the sound of cars drifting tires, ‘skr’ was exploited by Chinese micro-blogging users for other meanings and functions. Data were collected from Weibo users’ postings over a month. Using the Search function, we examined micro-blogs with ‘skr’ embedded in the text of the Weibo postings. A total of 1,8…
Jocular mockery in the context of a localised playful frame
Impoliteness in negative online consumer reviews
This article presents a multifaceted comparative investigation into the linguistic impoliteness in the negative online consumer reviews on one of the world’s largest e-commerce tycoons and the flagship giant Amazon. The findings were derived from 600 items of online consumer reviews from two comparative perspectives: cross-language (English vs. Chinese) and cross-sector (daily necessities vs. luxury goods). Four impoliteness strategies were ident…
Sociopragmatic competence in American and Chinese children's realization of apology and refusal
Mitigation in Chinese online consumer reviews
University students' perceptions of ELF in mainland China and Taiwan
From hǎo to hǒu – stylising online communication with Chinese dialects
Although a growing body of literature has explored multilingual users’ digital practice, dialects adoptions have received relatively little attention. As an important part of the Chinese language, spoken dialects, or ‘方言’ (fangyan), are highly complex in their classification and colloquial usage. Nevertheless, Chinese online users, especially those of younger generations, find ways to incorporate dialects in stylised online expressions for langua…
Managing image
The complexities and dynamics of pragmatics of sharing on social media
Digital Multimodal Composing in L2 Learning
While there has been a scholarly call for the incorporation of digital multimodal composing (DMC) in L2 pedagogy over the past decade, the ideologies of teachers and students about using DMC and the pertinent impact on students’ investment in language learning remain underexplored. This paper is concerned with the experiences of a group of English teachers and students when they participated in a DMC program that engaged students with video produ…
Sharing second stories in online comforting interactions
Emotional labour in comforting strangers on social media
Emotional support on social media has become a popular way for people to seek comfort when facing failures and frustrations. This paper investigates the social practice of comforting strangers on the Chinese social media platform Douban . The emotional labour framework was adopted to examine the ways in which the comforting practice managed the emotions of both the comfortee and the comforter. A dataset of 400 replies was collected from Douban to…
L2 grit and pragmatic comprehension among Chinese postgraduate learners
Comprehension of implicature may be challenging for L2 learners, which may be further influenced for by learners’ L2 grit and emotions. However, few studies have endeavored to determine the predictive impact of L2 grit, along with its closely associated emotional factors, such as enjoyment and anxiety, and investigate how these psychological factors jointly influence pragmatic comprehension. Therefore, this study attempts to investigate the relat…
Self‐praise on social media WeChat Moments in L1 and L2 Chinese
To date, second language (L2) pragmatics research has predominantly focused on learners’ oral communication, with digital communication being much less examined. In addition, although L2 pragmatics has mainly investigated speech acts, self‐praise has not been examined from the L2 perspective. Therefore, this study investigates instances of self‐praise posted by learners of Chinese on social networking sites. Data were collected from 20 advanced l…
Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media
This is the destiny, darling”
Ethanolic Extract of Aconiti Brachypodi Radix Attenuates Nociceptive Pain Probably Via Inhibition of Voltage-Dependent Na + Channel
Aconiti Brachypodi Radix, belonging to the genus of Aconitum (Family Ranunculaceae), are used clinically as anti-rheumatic, anti-inflammatory and anti-nociceptive in traditional medicine of China. However, its mechanism and influence on nociceptive threshold are unknown and need further investigation. The analgesic effects of ethanolic extract of Aconiti Brachypodi Radix (EABR) were thus studied in vivo and in vitro. Three pain models in mice wer…
Can the Expanding Circle Own English? Comments on Yoo's 'Nonnative Teachers in the Expanding Circle and the Ownership of English'
Yoo’s (2014) article raises a number of questions concerning local teachers’ status and the ownership of English in the Expanding Circle. In this article, I address five issues that I see as most important relating to the ownership of English and empowering local teachers in the Expanding Circle. I provide up-to-date evidence of World Englishes and English as a lingua franca (ELF) research and respond to skepticism and fallacies in Yoo’s paper. T…
A Longitudinal Investigation into L2 Learners’ Cognitive Processes during Study Abroad
The present study longitudinally investigates the cognitive processes of advanced L2 learners engaged in a multimedia task that elicited status-equal and status-unequal refusals in English during their study abroad. Data were collected three times by retrospective verbal report from 20 Chinese learners who were studying abroad over the course of one academic year. The results revealed that the learners reported paying increasingly more attention …
University students' perceptions of ELF in mainland China and Taiwan
Chinese females׳ date refusals in reality TV shows
The impact of marketization on the communication of Chinese academicians
Although the profound impact of marketization in academic world has been extensively studied, analytical attention is substantially concentrated on the organizational operation of universities. Less attention has been paid to the impact of marketization on the structure of academic disciplines and the communication of academicians, which is particular true in non-English-speaking countries. Drawing on the theory of genre analysis, this study sets…
Developing students’ awareness of Global Englishes
Although research on Global Englishes (GE) has demonstrated the potential for a new perspective of ELT, studies of GE in an Asian ELT context are relatively rare. As current mainstream ELT practice in China still largely emphasizes ‘native English’, university courses related to GE are scarce. This paper aims to unpack the influence of a course on English as a World Language in Chinese university students’ awareness of their own English and GE. D…
This is the destiny, darling”
Exploring Chinese digital communication
Mitigation in Chinese online consumer reviews
Motivation for Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language
The study of motivation based on non-English languages has attracted increasing attention in recent years, but related research in China is still limited. In an attempt to address this situation and with Dörnyei’s L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) as a framework, this paper studied seventeen Chinese university students’ motivational disposition to learn Spanish as their university major without abandoning their English study. Based on Q-methodo…
Pragmatic awareness and second language learning motivation
Motivation has an effect on the rate and success of second language (L2) learning. However, little is known about its role in students’ levels of L2 pragmatic awareness. This study investigated whether and to what extent students’ L2 motivation influences their pragmatic awareness. A total of 498 Chinese university students completed a two-part web-based survey (an appropriateness judgement task and a motivation questionnaire), of whom 12 were su…
Pragmatic development of Chinese during study abroad
Tracking the Evolution of Chinese Learners’ Multilingual Motivation Through a Longitudinal Q Methodology
This study uses a Q methodology to track the changing motivational profiles of 15 Chinese university students simultaneously engaged in second‐language (L2) English and third‐language (L3) Spanish learning over 1.5 years. Guided by complex dynamic systems theory (CDST), the study aims to investigate the initial trigger that propelled the Chinese learners to engage in intensive L3 learning and to chart the different routes of multilingual self‐dev…
Comparison between Chinese and Japanese Social Media Requests
This study investigates Chinese and Japanese requests in social media communication, focusing on the requests made between university students. The data consisted of 300 social media requests made by 30 Chinese university students and 304 social media requests made by 30 Japanese university students, respectively. The findings revealed that the Chinese and Japanese participants displayed more similarities than differences regarding the request st…
Analyzing interdiscursivity in legal genres
The traditional simplistic understanding of legal genre as homogeneous texts of legalese is recently confronted by researches focusing on the contextual aspects of legal communication, i.e. the production, circulation, and consumption of legal genres in diverse institutional contexts ( Candlin and Maley 1997 ; D’hondt and Van Der Houwen 2014 ). It is, according to these researches, more reasonable to think of legal genres as a hybrid combining th…
Managing image
Impoliteness in negative online consumer reviews
This article presents a multifaceted comparative investigation into the linguistic impoliteness in the negative online consumer reviews on one of the world’s largest e-commerce tycoons and the flagship giant Amazon. The findings were derived from 600 items of online consumer reviews from two comparative perspectives: cross-language (English vs. Chinese) and cross-sector (daily necessities vs. luxury goods). Four impoliteness strategies were ident…
Digital Multimodal Composing in L2 Learning
While there has been a scholarly call for the incorporation of digital multimodal composing (DMC) in L2 pedagogy over the past decade, the ideologies of teachers and students about using DMC and the pertinent impact on students’ investment in language learning remain underexplored. This paper is concerned with the experiences of a group of English teachers and students when they participated in a DMC program that engaged students with video produ…
This is so skrrrrr’ – creative translanguaging by Chinese micro-blogging users
This study investigates the use of a popular online expression ‘skr’ by Chinese micro-blogging users on Weibo. Used originally as a hip-hop term for the sound of cars drifting tires, ‘skr’ was exploited by Chinese micro-blogging users for other meanings and functions. Data were collected from Weibo users’ postings over a month. Using the Search function, we examined micro-blogs with ‘skr’ embedded in the text of the Weibo postings. A total of 1,8…
Tracking the trajectories of international students’ pragmatic choices in studying abroad in China
This paper reports on a longitudinal study that investigated how international students’ personal network mediated their pragmatic choices during studying abroad in China. Data were collected over a year through different ways, including Study Abroad Network Questionnaire, role-plays, retrospective verbal reports, ethnographic interviews and observation field notes. Findings showed that with respect to pragmatic performance, the students exercise…
Self-praise on Chinese social networking sites
Jocular mockery in the context of a localised playful frame
Sociopragmatic competence in American and Chinese children's realization of apology and refusal
Discursive practice of Chinese criminal adjudication
Different from ordinary discourse, the institutional nature of courtroom discourse has attracted much scholarly attention in the field of applied linguistics and professional discourse studies. Previous studies have examined the lexico-grammatical features and asymmetric power relations inherent in courtroom communication. However, little research has investigated the hybridizing construction of judges’ discourse and the contextual clues that may…
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