Samantha Zhan Xu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Samantha Zhan Xu is involved.

Articles

Xu, Samantha Zhan 2024 Review of Peck, Stroud & Williams (2019): Making sense of people and place in linguistic landscapes Linguistic Landscape 10:2, pp. 215–218 | Review

Xu, Samantha Zhan and Wei Wang 2021 Change and continuity in Hurstville’s Chinese restaurants: An ethnographic linguistic landscape study in Sydney Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World, Huebner, Thom (ed.), pp. 175–203 | Article

This paper investigates the Linguistic Landscape of Chinese restaurants in Hurstville, a Chinese-concentrated suburb in Sydney, Australia. It draws on Blommaert and Maly’s (2016) Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis (ELLA) and Scollon and Scollon’s geosemiotics (2003). Our data set… read more

Xu, Samantha Zhan 2020 Chapter 11. Translating puns in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A relevance-theoretic approach to (un)translatability Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres, Wang, Wei (ed.), pp. 195–218 | Chapter

This paper takes a pragmatic perspective and draws upon a relevance-theoretic approach to examine how the issue of (un)translatability is addressed in English to Chinese translation, based on three Chinese translations of the English classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland taken from three… read more