With the continuous development of various social media platforms and the expansion of the fan base, the fan culture has gradually entered the public’s vision. Internet slang of fans is an important part of fan culture, and many current Internet buzzwords also come from it. From the perspective of critical pragmatics, this paper first analyzes the word-formation characteristics of fans’ online expressions, and then critically analyzes the reasons for the popularity of fans’ online expressions with the relevant theories of pragmatics. It is hoped that it can provide some reference and inspiration for the study of network language and critical pragmatics.

Mian Wang. A Critical Pragmatic Analysis of Fans’ Online Expressions. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2020), Vol. 2, Issue 6: 58-66. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2020.020608.

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