Chengtuan Li

List of John Benjamins publications in which Chengtuan Li is involved.

Li, Chengtuan, Jing Han and Zhiwei Zhao 2025 Establishing emergent common ground: Chinese doctors’ use of metapragmatic expressions in oncological consultations Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article

In the framework of the socio-cognitive approach, this article investigates how Chinese doctors’ use of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) facilitates the construction of emergent common ground (ECG) in oncological consultations. Based on extracts from our medical corpus, this paper reveals that… read more

Zhao, Zhiwei and Chengtuan Li 2025 Review of Whitehead, Stokoe & Raymond (2025): Categories in Social Interaction Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Review

Li, Chengtuan and Xiaorui Li 2024 Review of McCready (2019): The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning Pragmatics and Society 15:5, pp. 805–809 | Review

Li, Chengtuan 2022 A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication Pragmatics and Society 13:2, pp. 169–192 | Article

Previous studies on common ground (CG, for short) have mainly focused on its definition and functions in various daily interactions. Few studies explore the linguistic manipulations of CG in cross-cultural business interactions. This paper aims to fill in this gap by examining how sellers and… read more