Weijia Shan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Weijia Shan is involved.
Articles
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