Yaru Zhao
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yaru Zhao is involved.
Articles
2025 “Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”: A critical discourse analysis of controversial feminism in Chinese stand-up comedian Yang Li’s Talk Show Speeches Pragmatics and Society 16:4, pp. 568–589 | Article
Adopting proximization theory as its analytical framework, this article examines the feminist discourse of controversial Chinese talk show performer Yang Li. Yang’s talk show is known for her incisive and sarcastically humorous remarks on men, and her speeches have aroused widespread… read more
2025 “Brides as unaffordable commodities”: A feminist critical discourse analysis of metaphor scenarios in high-bride-price cartoons in China Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
In this paper, we investigate the cartoons of high bride price in China. Through an integrated approach of multimodal metaphor analysis, metaphor scenario analysis, and feminist critical discourse analysis, we focus on how metaphors are discursively employed to convey and resist the practices of… read more