This paper investigates the emergence of COVID-19 neologisms. It focuses on the strategies
used to coin emerging neologisms, the relationship between the strategies and the usage …

This qualitative and quantitative study examines how taboo language is rendered in non-
professional subtitling (NPS), how viewers react to the renderings, and how the interactions …

This article describes emerging misogynistic labels involving the morpheme biăo 'slut'as a
gendered personal suffix in the Chinese cyber lexicon. We analyze the morphological …

Cursing is a universal and enduring human activity. As such, it provides a window into
human ethology, psychology and culture. It is inherently related to taboo and its symbiotic …

Chinese language arts is an emergent field. In this chapter, we first briefly introduce the
definition of language arts and the special relevance and issues the Chinese language …

This paper adopts models from epidemiology to account for the development and decline of
neologisms based on internet usage. The research design focuses on the issue of whether a …

There is a growing body of scholarly evidence that media convergence blurs the boundary
between media production and media consumption and obscures the lines between …

The question of how best to classify Modern Standard Chinese loanwords is rather a fraught
one. Various principles of categorization have been proposed in the literature; however …

Although Mandarin Chinese is shared by Chinese communities such as Mainland China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, linguistic differences are frequently found among …

Discursive power is conventionally conceptualized as the power of those in control over
others. This study approaches this subject from a novel perspective by proposing that such …