Zhonggang Sang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Zhonggang Sang is involved.
Articles
2026 Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse: A description of reverse news on social media Pragmatics 36:2, pp. 225–253 | Article
Social media discourse is characterized by the post-truth phenomenon, in which feelings and personal beliefs appear to exert greater influence on shaping public opinions than truth. In such cases, the truth of news may be blurred and reported events are often reversed along revelations of the… read more
2019 An activity theory approach to the contextualization mechanism of language use: Taking translation, pseudo-translation and self-translation as examples Pragmatics and Society 10:4, pp. 538–558 | Article
Contextualization is a widely-discussed topic in the field of linguistics. Although it is generally agreed that contextualization is a dynamic process of interaction among the heterogeneous contextual factors, one still lacks a coherent explanation of how the interactions enable a language user… read more