Wenge Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wenge Chen is involved.
2024 The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric: Ideological variations and their rhetorical construction in the GM debate in China Pragmatics and Society 15:2, pp. 246–274 | Article
Different from previous linguistic studies on rhetoric, which primarily concern the ideational semantics and the logic of sentences, this article attempts to deal systematically with the interpersonal semantics of rhetoric by drawing on the comprehensive appraisal framework of systemic… read more
2021 The erasure of nature in the discourse of oil production: An enhanced eco-discourse analysis, Part 1 Pragmatics and Society 12:1, pp. 6–32 | Article
This two-part article suggests ways in which elements of antagonistic discourses of the environment might be combined in a hybrid, innovative discourse that appeals to a broad section of the public while advocating for more environmentally sustainable practices in industry. It proposes an… read more
2021 Drilling for fissures and exploiting common ground in the discourse of oil production: An enhanced eco-discourse analysis, Part 2 Pragmatics and Society 12:2, pp. 167–188 | Article
This is the second part of a two-part article which proposes an enhanced approach to eco-discourses after weighing the (dis)advantages of mainstream Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA). Part I (Chen et al. 2021) explored the theoretical grounding for an… read more
2017 Lexicography, discourse and power: Uncovering ideology in the bilingualization of a monolingual English dictionary in China Pragmatics and Society 8:4, pp. 601–629 | Article
This paper conceptualizes dictionary bilingualization as a recontextualizing practice and explores how ideology and power play out in the recontextualization of lexicographic discourse across languages and cultures to result in the transformation of meaning. It first proposes viewing the… read more
