Migrants in Shanghai: An Analysis of Verbal Pejoration in Weibo

This thesis examines 硬盘Yingpan ‘hard drive,’ a newly created online derogatory code word referring to the migrants in Shanghai against the historical background of discrimination of migrants in Shanghai. Based on corpus data from Chinese social media, I examine the usage patterns of this derogatory...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Song, Depei
Other Authors: Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23775