doi: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.4.412
The Online Identity Construction of the Elderly Women— Take Chinese Discourse Marker “Ah” as an Example
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Yaxuan Zhao 2,*
- 1 School of International Cooperation and Education, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China.
- 2 Department of Foreign Languages, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China.
Abstract
Recently, the registration of the elder user incyberspace roses repeatedly. More and more old people preferto realize self-expression through the Internet, among which theelderly woman is the majority. Based on self-constructed corpus,this paper examines the pragmatic functions of the Chinesediscourse marker “Ah”, and discusses what kinds of pragmaticidentity has been constructed. This paper discovers that, on theone hand, discourse marker “Ah” realizes topic organizationfunction and interpersonal function; on the other hand, “ah”assists the elderly in constructing female identity, expert identity,elder identity and peer identity, and sometimes a compoundidentity of real and virtual identities so as to narrow thepsychological distance with the audience and achieve thecommunicative purpose.
Keywords
- Cyber discourse
- elderly women
- identityconstruction
- discourse markers
- Ah
How to Cite
Dan Cui and Yaxuan Zhao, "The Online Identity Construction of the Elderly Women— Take Chinese Discourse Marker “Ah” as an Example," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 242-247, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.4.412
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