Meichun Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Meichun Liu is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798
Title
Lexical semantics towards the big-data era
Edited by Meichun Liu and Chunyu Kit
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 14:1 (2023) v, 207 pp.
2024 Metaphorical polysemy of the Chinese color term hēi 黑 “black”: A corpus-based cognitive semantic analysis with Behavioral Profiles International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:1, pp. 1–33 | Article
This paper reports a corpus-based, cognitive semantic study on profiling the varied uses of the Chinese color term hēi
黑 “black” with regard to its metaphorical polysemy. We hypothesize that the semantic (dis)similarities among the eight metaphorical meanings of hēi “black” can be… read more
2023 The Multifunctionality of Mandarin Diào 掉: A cross-linguistic perspective Lexical semantics towards the big-data era, Liu, Meichun and Chunyu Kit (eds.), pp. 18–49 | Article
This paper explores the various functions of diào in Mandarin Chinese as it changes from a verb to a phase marker. As a phase marker, diào provides a natural endpoint to a co-occurring event and indicates completion, which is a distinct function from the perfect marker le. In this shift, the… read more
2023 What more can empirical contextual data tell about the real usage of words and collocations? A case study of the qià ( 恰 ) cluster with Chinese Gigaword data Lexical semantics towards the big-data era, Liu, Meichun and Chunyu Kit (eds.), pp. 50–99 | Article
This article presents a corpus-based distributional analysis of the usage patterns of a cluster of words and compounds containing the morpheme qià (恰) ‘just, exactly’, by the aid of an extended concordancer to retrieve representative collocations from their adjacent contexts in Chinese Gigaword.… read more
2023 Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity: A case study based on Huawei annual reports Pragmatics and Society 14:5, pp. 777–800 | Article
Using Huawei annual reports as data sources, this study examines rhetorical strategies in business discourse for the construction of corporate identity. A socio-pragmatic framework is proposed for analysing such strategies, incorporating a textual analysis of rhetorical strategies, a discourse… read more
2021 Caused-Motion and Caused-Position: Syntactic patterns and semantic networks Studies in Language 45:2, pp. 470–498 | Article
According to Goldberg (1995), placement verbs (such as put) are instantiated in the Caused-Motion Construction. Rohde (2001), however, argued that placement verbs in fact occur in a different construction, which she names the Caused-Position Construction, whose semantic value is not ‘cause to… read more
2021 The pragmatics of text-emoji co-occurrences on Chinese social media Pragmatics 31:1, pp. 144–172 | Article
This paper explores the pragmatics of emojis co-occurring with or embedded in text on Chinese social media with this central research question: what are the patterns and the communicative functions manifested by emojis in co-occurrence with Chinese text? Building on the metafunctional approach… read more
2019 From caused-motion to spatial configuration: Placement verbs in Mandarin The interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese, Peck, Jeeyoung (ed.), pp. 180–224 | Article
This study re-examines Mandarin Placement verbs from a lexical-constructional perspective and redefines the class with semantic-to-syntactic properties pertaining to lexicalization patterns in Mandarin. It aims to show that Placement verbs lexicalize a cognitively salient causal chain that… read more