Zhengrui Han

List of John Benjamins publications in which Zhengrui Han is involved.

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Chen, Zhen and Zhengrui Han 2026 Telling an expressive narrative in a foreign language: Analysis of Chinese JFL learners’ evaluative strategies in oral narrative discourse Narrative Inquiry 36:1, pp. 91–110 | Article

This study explores the discourse expressivity of Chinese JFL (Japanese as a foreign language) learners’ Japanese narratives in terms of the variety and use of evaluative strategies, and analyzes how the evaluation system in their first language (L1) may be evident in their second language (L2)… read more

Ren, Wei, Vijay Bhatia and Zhengrui Han 2020 Analyzing interdiscursivity in legal genres: The case of Chinese lawyers’ written opinions Pragmatics and Society 11:4, pp. 615–639 | Article

The traditional simplistic understanding of legal genre as homogeneous texts of legalese is recently confronted by researches focusing on the contextual aspects of legal communication, i.e. the production, circulation, and consumption of legal genres in diverse institutional contexts (Candlin… read more

Zhang, Xing and Zhengrui Han 2019 Ahmed Fakhari. (2014) Fatwas & Court Judgment: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion  Journal of Language and Politics 18:2, pp. 316–319 | Review

Han, Zhengrui, Vijay Bhatia and Yunfeng Ge 2018 The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions: A genre analytical approach Pragmatics 28:4, pp. 463–488 | Article

As Chinese legal system follows a statutory tradition, the writing of Chinese judicial opinions is normally considered as an invariant sequential process of stating the law, presenting the fact, and finally providing the conclusion. The official ideology is further reinforced by the fact that… read more