Inclusivity and Belonging in Chinese Discourse

Inclusivity and Belonging in Chinese Discourse explores how recent language change in the third person pronoun system of Mandarin Chinese is harnessed by netizens to construct spaces of (non-) belonging along a fluid continuum in the context of pro and anti LGBTQ discourses.

Kerry Sluchinski is a pragmatics and deixis-based East Asian linguist and discourse analyst whose general body of research focuses on the (de/re/co-) construction of identity and the use of referential forms on the Internet in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.