Jialei Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jialei Li is involved.
Articles
2024 Colloquialism and genre variation in Chinese: A corpus-driven study Chinese Language and Discourse 15:1, pp. 73–104 | Article
Colloquialization has been identified as one of the most crucial change processes of the English language, through which written genres gradually shift towards spoken styles. Colloquialism refers to the synchronous features resulting from colloquialization. There is limited research into the… read more
2021 An aggregate approach to diachronic variation in modern Chinese writings and translations Asian Languages and Linguistics 2:1, pp. 110–133 | Article
Modern Chinese took the place of classical Chinese and has been the standard form of writing since the early 1920s. While several studies have been carried out on diachronic variation in modern written Chinese, these include few aggregate investigations. This study examines the diachronic… read more