Xinxin Shan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Xinxin Shan is involved.

Articles

Shan, Xinxin 2025 Review of Matsumoto & Kawachi (2020): Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:2, pp. 434–439 | Review

Shan, Xinxin and Aunga Solomon Onchoke 2018 Metaphorical motion in Chinese Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2, pp. 230–260 | Article

This paper focuses on metaphorical motion in the Chinese language by investigating how various abstract concepts are construed in terms of spatial motion. The claim that the primary metaphor, change is motion, is central to metaphorical motion is confirmed, and we further examine sorts of target… read more