Wei-lun Lu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wei-lun Lu is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2213-8722 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8730
International Journal of Language and Culture
Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha
ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
ISSN 1877-9751 | E‑ISSN 1877‑976X
COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures
Edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses
The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] 2025. vi, 344 pp.
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication
Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda
The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 119] 2021. v, 157 pp.
Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow
Edited by Wei-lun Lu and Jirí Lukl
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication
Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019) vi, 301 pp.
Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives
Edited by Jana Pelclová and Wei-lun Lu
This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee’s intellectual and emotional capacities in a competing public environment. The aim is to investigate persuasive strategies from the overlapping perspectives of… read more2025 Chapter 13. The Czech Coronasong: A multimodal perspective COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 318–341 | Chapter
This paper investigates poetic devices related to COVID-19 used in the Czech Republic during the pandemic from a multimodal perspective. In March 2020, live stage theatres worldwide stopped operating due to the outbreak of COVID-19. In response, many theatres began broadcasting and streaming… read more
2025 Communicating the pandemic: Cognitive Linguistic approaches to meaning construction across socio-cultural settings, genres, and modalities COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2022 Rendering, generalization and variation: On the use of multiple parallel texts as a comparative method in cognitive poetics Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 209–230 | Chapter
The chapter presents a case study of how the use of multiple parallel texts may be employed as a useful research method in cognitive poetics, using the English version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and its four published Czech versions as the samples. In the… read more
2022 Viewpoint and metaphor in culture: A Cognitive Linguistic analysis on a selection of Chinese eulogistic idioms used in Taiwan Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 263–282 | Chapter
The chapter presents an in-depth analysis of the language of death in Chinese and discusses the relation between language and occupation as a social factor in analyzing the language of death. In this chapter, I address in what specific ways Cognitive Linguistics may serve as a useful analytical… read more
2021 The near-synonymy of classifiers and construal operation: A corpus-based study of 棵 kē and 株 zhū in Chinese Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 115–132 | Chapter
This paper investigates the near-synonymy of classifiers, using Chinese kē and zhū as illustration. We find that in [quantifier] – [classifier] – [noun], the two classifiers have overlapping semantic prototypes due to their similar behavioral profiles. However, despite a shared functional core,… read more
2021 Deep dives into big data: Best practices for synthesis of quantitative and qualitative analysis in Cognitive Linguistics Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
2020 Rendering, generalization and variation: On the use of multiple parallel texts as a comparative method in cognitive poetics Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 201–221 | Article
The article presents a case study of how the use of multiple parallel texts may be employed as a useful research method in cognitive poetics, using the English version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and its four published Czech versions as the samples. In the… read more
2020 Viewpoint and metaphor in culture: A Cognitive Linguistic analysis on a selection of Chinese eulogistic idioms used in Taiwan Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 254–274 | Article
The paper presents an in-depth analysis of the language of death in Chinese and discusses the relation between language and occupation as a social factor in analyzing the language of death. In this paper, I address in what specific ways Cognitive Linguistics may serve as a useful analytical… read more
2020 Chapter 7. Cultural “Signs of life” in politics: A case study of eulogistic idioms for Taiwanese politicians Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian (eds.), pp. 141–156 | Chapter
This chapter presents a Cognitive Linguistic analysis of Mandarin eulogistic idioms used for politicians as a sub-genre of political communication. The entire collection of idioms is taken from the online eulogy request system in Taiwan and contains 16 idioms. In the analysis of the idioms, it… read more
2020 Narrative viewpoint and subjective construal across languages: English inversion, associated strategies and their Chinese renditions in multiple parallel texts Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow, Lu, Wei-lun and Jirí Lukl (eds.), pp. 334–356 | Article
The present study explores the viewpointing function of word order inversion and associated stylistic strategies across languages, comparing English-Chinese multiple parallel texts as illustration. In particular, I investigate whether the cognitive strategy of inverting the word order to create… read more
2020 The flow and structure of information in cognitive linguistics: Discourse, functional and cross-linguistic dimensions Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow, Lu, Wei-lun and Jirí Lukl (eds.), pp. 275–283 | Introduction
2020 Delivering the unconventional across languages: A Cognitive Grammar analysis of nonce words in “Jabberwocky” and its Ukrainian renditions Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1, pp. 244–274 | Article
This paper presents an analysis of nonce words that relies on Cognitive Grammar (CG) using the English version of “Jabberwocky” and its two Ukrainian renditions. We identify great variation among the versions, both inter-lingual and intra-lingual. In particular, not only do the versions differ… read more
2019 The near-synonymy of classifiers and construal operation: A corpus-based study of 棵 kē and 株 zhū in Chinese Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 113–130 | Article
This paper investigates the near-synonymy of classifiers, using Chinese kē and zhū as illustration. We find that in [quantifier] – [classifier] – [noun], the two classifiers have overlapping semantic prototypes due to their similar behavioral profiles. However, despite a shared functional core,… read more
2019 Deep dives into big data: Best practices for synthesis of quantitative and qualitative analysis in Cognitive Linguistics Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
2019 Chapter 1. When constructions meet context: The polysemy of Mandarin hai revisited Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese, Shu, Dingfang, Hui Zhang and Lifei Zhang (eds.), pp. 47–72 | Chapter
This study investigates the synchronic polysemy of the Mandarin construction hai. Drawing on authentic and contextualized examples of spoken language, I propose that hai prototypically functions as an indicator that the ensuing proposition refers back to some relevant presupposition in prior… read more
2018 Persuasion across times, domains and modalities: Theoretical considerations and emerging themes Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives, Pelclová, Jana and Wei-lun Lu (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 3. Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse: The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives, Pelclová, Jana and Wei-lun Lu (eds.), pp. 65–84 | Chapter
This chapter investigates Churchill’s Cold War speeches as a case of how cognitive and corpus linguistics may serve as a useful tool for analyzing how political leaders legitimize their agendas via linguistic means. We find that Churchill’s rhetoric makes extensive use of the source domains person,… read more
2018 The cognitive potential of antithesis: ‘To be, or not to be’ in Hamlet’s signature soliloquy Revisiting Shakespeare's Language, Baicchi, Annalisa, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca (eds.), pp. 141–168 | Article
This paper investigates the working of antithesis in Shakespeare’s most famous soliloquy “To be, or not to be” and its three Ukrainian translations. In cognitive poetics, antithesis is often viewed as a verbal variety of conceptual oxymoron. However, this paper argues for distinguishing… read more
2017 Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification: The case ofcompletion is up and the polysemy ofshàngin Chinese Studies in Figurative Thought and Language, Athanasiadou, Angeliki (ed.), pp. 231–249 | Chapter
This chapter addresses the relation between conceptual metaphor, conceptual archetype and subjectivity. I start by examining the polysemy ofshàngin Chinese, given the working ofcompletion is upon its semantics. In this chapter, I sketch a possible route of semantic extension… read more
2015 Conceptual autonomy and dependence in Chinese lexical semantic analysis: The role of image-schema, conceptual domains and co-text in [v]–[shang] Chinese Language and Discourse 6:2, pp. 162–182 | Article
The present study addresses the rate of conceptual autonomy and dependence in Chinese lexical semantic analysis, presenting an analysis of how image-schema, domains and co-text interact in the [v]–[shang] construction as an example. Following a Principled Polysemy methodology, I identify the… read more
2014 Review of Goatly (2011): The Language of Metaphors Pragmatics and Society 5:2, pp. 329–333 | Review
2014 Review of Boas (2010): Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar Studies in Language 38:2, pp. 413–420 | Review