Xiaobin Zhu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xiaobin Zhu is involved.
Articles
2025 Foreign relations law as an interdiscursive continuum: A comparative genre-pragmatic analysis Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
Foreign relations law, as a genre that aims to build bridges between domestic and international law, is an understudied field in the studies of language use in legal contexts. Drawing on the method of critical genre analysis and the theory of legal speech acts, this comparative genre-pragmatic… read more
2024 Setting boundaries between crime and rights: Discursive (de)legitimation of abortion rights in the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs opinions Narrative Boundaries: Constitutional struggles in an age of polarization, Cordero, Rodrigo and Raimundo Frei (eds.), pp. 653–676 | Article
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson overturned two precedents, thus ending American women’s 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion. Drawing on Van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework and Labov’s model of narrative structure, this study focuses on how justices… read more