Zhengjun Lin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Zhengjun Lin is involved.
2024 The analysis of orientational metaphor of ‘ Zhōng ’ (中) in Chinese traditional classic The Doctrine of the Mean International Journal of Language and Culture 11:2, pp. 153–179 | Article
This paper studies the orientational metaphor of zhōng (中, ‘middle’) and its cultural values behind this metaphor in Chinese Traditional Classic The Doctrine of Mean. It is found that there are three metaphorical meanings for the orientational metaphor of zhōng (中, ‘middle’), including “an… read more
2023 Collostructional analysis on Chinese modal verb construction neng bu neng + VP Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:2, pp. 351–376 | Article
This paper aims to investigate the meanings of Chinese neng (modal verb) bu (negative word) neng (modal verb) + VP construction and explores the meaning motivations behind them. The present paper employs the method of collostructional analysis, R software and BLCU Corpus Center (BCC) are used to… read more
2023 Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media Pragmatics and Society 14:1, pp. 90–116 | Article
COVID-19 poses a threat to social stability globally, which requires efficacious governance and public cooperation. To handle the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese national news media have mobilized the public to identify and collaborate with the nation. This paper investigates how war, chess, and… read more
2020 Metonymic and metaphoric meaning extensions of Chinese FACE and its collocations Pragmatics and Society 11:1, pp. 96–123 | Article
This paper studies the extension of conventional meanings of Chinese FACE expressions in their collocations as well as the collocations themselves through metonymy and metaphor. The data with five FACE expressions included are sampled from the corpus of Center for Chinese Linguistics at Peking… read more
2020 David Block (2019) Post-Truth and Political Discourse Media, Migration and Human Rights: Discourse and Resistance in the Context of the Erosion of Liberal Norms, Balabanova, Ekaterina and Ruxandra Trandafoiu (eds.), pp. 555–558 | Review