The “Kuakua” fever: Proactively requesting praise on Chinese social networking sites

Wang, Fan; Wang, Li

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2022.12.015

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“…The bandwagon effect describes the individual psychological phenomenon of mimesis of others’ styles, attitudes, or behavior. Furthermore, Wang and Wang (2023) explored Chinese netizens’ self-presentation strategies when proactively requesting praise in the Mutual Praise Group. They found that Chinese netizens employed three categories of pragmatic strategies, namely, self-praise (positive self-presentation), self-disclosure (neutral self-presentation), and self-denigration (negative self-presentation).…”

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confidence: 99%

Responses to self-praise on Chinese social media

Guo,

Ren

2024

Discourse & Communication

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Self-praise is a very common practice on social media and has attracted researchers’ attention in recent years. In contrast, how interlocutors respond to other netizens’ self-praise on social media has rarely been explored. This study investigates internet users’ responses to online self-praise by examining a dataset of 569 netizens’ self-praise responses to 75 self-praising microblogs collected from the Chinese social media platform Weibo. The study examines the strategies of users’ responses to bloggers’ self-praise and whether bloggers’ self-praise strategies influence netizens’ responses. It was found that Chinese netizens responded to self-praising blogs with various strategies, including compliment, congratulation, inquiry/remark, evasion, and challenging. The findings showed that netizens’ self-praise responses varied with the categories of self-praise strategies. Possible factors motivating the various strategies involved in netizens’ self-praise responses are also discussed. The study contributes to the literature on self-praise interaction and speech act responses.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%