Face Attack Online: Unpacking Conflicts in Multimodal Group Chats

This study focuses on analyzing face attacks in the conflict discourse of cross-linguistic online chats on the instant message application <i>WeChat</i> among a group of international students at a prestigious university in China. Drawing on the previous impoliteness theory of Leech and...

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Main Authors: Fan Cao, Vanessa Ruiling Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-09-01
Series:Journalism and Media
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/5/3/82
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