Lin Zhu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lin Zhu is involved.

Article

Zhu, Lin 2019 Chapter 10. Kinship metaphors in the Chinese construction A shi B zhi fu/mu: Biology and culture as conceptual basis Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun and Linda Tsung (eds.), pp. 199–219 | Chapter

This corpus-driven study focuses on two metaphorically used kinship terms in Modern Chinese, 父 fu ‘father’ and 母 mu ‘mother’. Under investigation are two constructions [A shi B zhi fu] ‘A is the father of B’ and [A shi B zhi mu] ‘A is the mother of B’. It is found that the figurative meanings… read more