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Chinese Language and Discourse

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

2 March 2026

COVID-19 and the Chinese community in London: Discourse circulation, semantic shifts, and transnational communication in a public health crisis

Yan Jiang | 25 pp.

27 February 2026

Review of Meizhen (2024): The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach

Min Zeng | 5 pp.

2 February 2026

方式副词向语气副词的演变 [The evolution of manner adverbs into modal adverbs]: ——基于新媒体话语中“直接”和“反手”虚化现象的研究 [A study based on the grammaticalization of “Zhijie” and “Fanshou” in the context of new media]

Hua Gao and Danqing Liu | 15 pp.

1 September 2025

The language of ESG sustainability reports of Chinese listed companies: A preliminary corpus-assisted keyword analysis from an ecolinguistic perspective

Sergio Conti, Laura Locatelli, Daniele Brombal and Pui Yiu Szeto | 60 pp.