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My Poor Little Meow Meow: K-Pop Fans and the Parasocial Abuse of Positive Politeness

Sociolinguistics

Blai Puigmal Burcet, Emma Montilla, Latisha Sumardy, Sophia Wang Korean popular music (K-pop) started off as a small subculture in the 1990s but began taking off in the West in the mid-2010s and since then has become increasingly popular and mainstream. K-pop fans are known for their borderline obsessive behavior and for finding personal validation […]

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K-Netizen: Examining Possessive Behavior in K-pop Social Media Discourse

Sociolinguistics

Matthew Lee, Sam Lin, Huimin Liu, Francisco Morales, Annika Park In recent years, Korean popular music, or K-pop, has led the way for a meteoric rise in global popularity of Korean culture. According to Sue Jin Lee’s study, “The Korean Wave: The Seoul of Asia,” this Korean wave—hallyu in Korean—has garnered a worldwide fanbase whose

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Fanquan language: How Chinese Fandom Culture Sweeps the Nation

Sociolinguistics

Hanlin Meng, Ming Chen, Tianyuan Yan, Weilin Zeng ‘yyds, u1s1, dbq…’ These indecipherable words all come from a prominent and active group of young people in China, namely the fans who are promoting campaigns for their idols online and call themselves Fanquan, the fan circle. As exclusive as their language seems, it has actually gained

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