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2015

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Doing Deference”: Identities And Relational Practices In Chinese Online Discussion Boards, Michael Haugh, Wei-Lin Melody Chang, Dániel Z. Kadar Jan 2015

Doing Deference”: Identities And Relational Practices In Chinese Online Discussion Boards, Michael Haugh, Wei-Lin Melody Chang, Dániel Z. Kadar

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In this paper we examine a key relational practice found in interactions in online discussion boards in Mainland China and Taiwan: ‘doing deference’. In drawing attention to a relational practice that has received attention in quite different research traditions, namely, linguistic pragmatics and conversation analysis (CA), we mean to highlight the possible advantages of an approach to analysis that draws from both in analysing relational work in CMC. We claim in the course of our analysis that the participants are orienting not only to relationships but also to identities through this practice. In this way, we suggest that online discussion …


Towards A Multilingual National Literature: The Tung Wah Times And The Origins Of Chinese Australian Writing, Huang Zhong, Wenche Ommundsen Jan 2015

Towards A Multilingual National Literature: The Tung Wah Times And The Origins Of Chinese Australian Writing, Huang Zhong, Wenche Ommundsen

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Australian literature has over the last 50 years witnessed the gradual inclusion of writers and texts formerly considered marginal: from a predominantly white, Anglo canon it has come to incorporate more women writers, writers of popular genres, Indigenous writers, and migrant, multicultural or diasporic writers. However, one large and important body of Australian writing has remained excluded from histories and anthologies: literature in languages other than English. Is this the last literary margin? How might it be incorporated into the national canon, and how might it enhance our understanding of the cross-cultural traffic that feeds into the literature of a …


Early Chinese Newspapers In Australia: Trove Presents A New Perspective On Australian History, Kate Bagnall Jan 2015

Early Chinese Newspapers In Australia: Trove Presents A New Perspective On Australian History, Kate Bagnall

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Most Australian historians will tell you that there was a “before Trove” and an “after Trove”. Being able to search and access digitised copies of hundreds of Australian newspapers, from major city dailies to small country papers, has changed the way we work and the sorts of histories we are able to write.


Early Chinese Newspapers: Trove Presents A New Perspective On Australian History, Kate Bagnall Jan 2015

Early Chinese Newspapers: Trove Presents A New Perspective On Australian History, Kate Bagnall

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Most Australian historians will tell you that there was a ‘before Trove’ and an ‘after Trove’. Being able to search and access digitised copies of hundreds of Australian newspapers, from major city dailies to small country papers, has changed the way we work and the sorts of histories we are able to write.