Kun Yang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kun Yang is involved.

Journal

Cognitive Linguistic Studies

Edited by Xu Wen and Zoltán Kövecses

ISSN 2213-8722 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8730

Online Resource

Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy

Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

E‑ISSN 1877‑9638

Qiu, Lin and Kun Yang 2025 Review of Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Review

Yang, Kun 2023 “Trust X, because Y”: A corpus-assisted analysis of trust-related metalanguage labels and trustworthiness cues Pragmatics and Society 14:5, pp. 753–776 | Article

Trust is of great importance in modern society, but few studies look at it from a linguistic perspective. This paper explores the discourses of trust based on the data from the BLCU Chinese Corpus (BCC). This paper finds that the communicator’s inner states of trust, suspicion, or distrust could… read more

Yang, Kun and Jing Chen 2023 The son ( érzi ) is not really a son: Generalization of address terms in Chinese online discourse Pragmatics 33:1, pp. 78–98 | Article

This paper aims to explore the generalization of address terms in online discourse, a largely unheeded pragmatic phenomenon. Taking the generalized Chinese kinship term “son” (érzi) as an example, it analyzes its referents and functions. The analysis was based on a sizable data set collected… read more

Yang, Kun and Lincai Kuang 2023 Review of Brdar & Brdar-Szabó (2022): Figurative Thought and Language in Action Current challenges in metaphor research, Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 138–143 | Review

Yang, Kun and Fei Wang 2022 Review of Schmid (2020): The dynamics of the linguistic system: Usage, conventionalization and entrenchment Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1, pp. 170–176 | Review

Yang, Kun, Jinqiu Guo and Xu Wen 2021 Eating we live by: eating metaphors in Mandarin Chinese Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1, pp. 204–233 | Article

eating plays a pivotal role in Chinese culture as echoed in the saying mín yǐ shí wéi tiān “Eating is everything for people”. In Chinese, a multitude of expressions related to eating are metaphorically used to talk about aspects of living and we call them “eating metaphors”. eating… read more

Wen, Xu, Kun Yang and Fangtao Kuang 2014 Cognitive Linguistics: Retrospect and prospect Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:2, pp. 155–170 | Article

As a new paradigm of linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics has made great achievements over the past 30 years or so. In order to make the latest trends of Cognitive Linguistic research known, this paper presents the outstanding achievements and prominent characteristics of Cognitive Linguistics in… read more