Xu Huang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Xu Huang is involved.

Articles

Huang, Xu and Jialiang Chen 2025 Review of Chen (2024): Chinese Politeness: Diachrony, Variation, and Universals in Politeness Theory Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:2, pp. 315–320 | Review

Huang, Xu and Yongping Ran 2025 Genuine or ostensible politeness? A diachronic study of qingwen in Chinese directives Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3, pp. 380–405 | Article

This study examines the use of qingwen (an honorific request marker) across three different historical periods in China and unravels the evolved relationship between qingwen-initiated directives of information-seeking and Chinese politeness. Drawing on the CCL Corpus, this study reveals that:… read more