Xingchen Shen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xingchen Shen is involved.
Articles
2021 Radio program hosts’ self-identity mobilization in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultations Pragmatics and Society 12:3, pp. 390–409 | Article
While previous studies highlight the dynamic nature of identity co-construction, how and especially why speakers construct and shift their own multiple identities still remains understudied. The present study argues that identity is part of speaker communicative resources as evidenced by radio… read more
2019 Doing Power Threatening Acts (PTAs) in ancient China: An empirical study of Chinese jian discourse Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:1, pp. 132–156 | Article
This study examines an unexplored type of speech act named jian, which took place uniquely in the context of ancient China. Taking it as a Power Threatening Act rather than a commonly studied Face Threatening Act, this study examined remonstrators’ strategic modulation of their jian, and the… read more