Yi Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yi Zhang is involved.
Articles
2024 Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events Pragmatics and Society 15:3, pp. 448–470 | Article
Collective attacks related to controversial issues are pervasive in online communication. However, public opinion is often reversed later when earlier reports are revealed to be misinformation, which may lead to remedies offered to the victim by netizens. We call such phenomena online public… read more
2022 Chinese adverbs: A Cognitive Grammar exploration Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:2, pp. 330–356 | Article
The category of adverbs in Chinese, as is its counterpart in English, is featured by morphological, syntactic and semantic heterogeneity. The heterogeneity poses the questions of the categorial coherence and the conflicting criteria in identifying adverbs. This paper starts with the definition… read more
2020 Non-canonical passives in Chinese: A mental space account Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1, pp. 84–106 | Article
This paper examines a non-canonical passive construction in Chinese. In this construction, the passive marker bei can proceed a constituent including intransitive verbs, adjectives and nouns, in such expressions as bei zisha/‘commit suicide,’ bei xingfu/‘happy’ or bei gaotie/‘high speed train.’… read more