Sep 2026
Strategic self-praise in a female-dominant online community
This study adopts an emic perspective and a mixed-methods approach to examine 190 instances of female self-praise on Xiaohongshu. The analysis shows that competence-related themes, modified explicit strategies, and persona-oriented purposes dominate self-praise, with notable correlations between these aspects withi...
Yan Qiu, Chong-Hua Li
· Pragmatics: Quarterly Public... · 0 citations