Yanfei Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yanfei Zhang is involved.
2026 Delineating how PCIs develop into GCIs from a cognition-pragmatics diachronic perspective: A case study of Chinese méimù Pragmatics 36:2, pp. 192–224 | Article
The Gricean GCI-PCI divide has long been questioned in linguistic pragmatics. Taking Chinese méimù in the CCL corpus as the case, the present study proposes the cognition-pragmatics diachronic model to examine Grice’s GCI-PCI divide. It is found that with the frequency of repeated usage… read more
2025 Scalar implicature: An encyclopedic semantic approach Pragmatics and Society 16:1, pp. 46–66 | Article
Scalar implicature is a very interesting topic in linguistic pragmatics. This study is intended to argue that, based on the Cognitive Grammar paradigm, scalar implicature is contextually activated by schematic networks. From a hierarchical perspective, those linguistic units sharing the same… read more
2022 Review of Haugh, Kádár & Terkourafi (2021): The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics Pragmatics and Society 13:2, pp. 346–351 | Review
2020 A cognitive-pragmatic study of non-scalar implicatures Pragmatics and Society 11:1, pp. 149–163 | Discussion
Whether or not non-entailment relations generate scalar implicatures is a cutting-edge issue in linguistic pragmatics. The present study intends to argue that, based on the Cognitive Grammar paradigm, non-scalar implicatures generated by non-entailment relations are manifested as cognitive… read more