Jiayu Wang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jiayu Wang is involved.
2025 “Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”: A critical discourse analysis of controversial feminism in Chinese stand-up comedian Yang Li’s Talk Show Speeches Pragmatics and Society 16:4, pp. 568–589 | Article
Adopting proximization theory as its analytical framework, this article examines the feminist discourse of controversial Chinese talk show performer Yang Li. Yang’s talk show is known for her incisive and sarcastically humorous remarks on men, and her speeches have aroused widespread… read more
2025 “Brides as unaffordable commodities”: A feminist critical discourse analysis of metaphor scenarios in high-bride-price cartoons in China Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
In this paper, we investigate the cartoons of high bride price in China. Through an integrated approach of multimodal metaphor analysis, metaphor scenario analysis, and feminist critical discourse analysis, we focus on how metaphors are discursively employed to convey and resist the practices of… read more
2023 Interpersonal-function topoi in Chinese central government’s work report (2020) as epidemic (counter-)crisis discourse Journal of Language and Politics 22:2, pp. 185–203 | Article
Using Systemic Functional Grammar and conceptual framework in the argumentation-oriented approach to discourse, this study analyzes Chinese central government’s “ Report on the Work of the Government” in 2020 (henceforth the Report) to explore the “interpersonal-function topoi” in the political… read more
2017 Representing Chinese nationalism/patriotism through President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” Discourse Journal of Language and Politics 16:6, pp. 830–848 | Article
This paper analyzes the Chinese nationalism or patriotism embodied in Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” discourse. It first reviews the “typological tradition” of categorizing nationalism into different types, for instance, banal, hot and cultural nationalism. Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” discourse… read more
2016 Narrative mediatisation of the “Chinese Dream” in Chinese and American media Journal of Language and Politics 15:1, pp. 45–62 | Article
This paper examines how the political slogan of the “Chinese Dream”, coined and promoted by China’s president, Xi Jinping, was mediatised in the Chinese and the American media. Applying theoretical frameworks in narrative studies and concepts in mediated discourse analysis, it investigates how… read more