Le Cheng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Le Cheng is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722
2026 Continuum of stance in law: A corpus-based study across written legal genres International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Stance is deep-rooted in law, where legal values can never stand in a vacuum. Despite a growing body of literature on stance in legal genres, cross-genre examinations conducted from a corpus-based perspective still leave room for improvement. This study conducts a cross-genre examination of how… read more
2025 Foreign relations law as an interdiscursive continuum: A comparative genre-pragmatic analysis Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
Foreign relations law, as a genre that aims to build bridges between domestic and international law, is an understudied field in the studies of language use in legal contexts. Drawing on the method of critical genre analysis and the theory of legal speech acts, this comparative genre-pragmatic… read more
2024 Setting boundaries between crime and rights: Discursive (de)legitimation of abortion rights in the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs opinions Narrative Boundaries: Constitutional struggles in an age of polarization, Cordero, Rodrigo and Raimundo Frei (eds.), pp. 653–676 | Article
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson overturned two precedents, thus ending American women’s 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion. Drawing on Van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework and Labov’s model of narrative structure, this study focuses on how justices… read more
2020 Development of deontic modality in Chinese civil laws: A corpus study Pragmatics and Society 11:3, pp. 337–362 | Article
In legislative texts, deontic modality helps define rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities. Based on a corpus of Chinese civil laws from 1949 to 2015, the study investigates the development of deontic modality in Chinese civil legislative discourse and examines the variations of… read more
2020 Mapping terminological variation and ideology in data protection laws Terminology 26:2, pp. 159–183 | Article
This study aims to deal with the relationship between terminological variation and ideology by examining the system of terminology and the defined individual terms in data protection legislation. With two self-compiled corpora incorporating data protection laws in the United States and the… read more
2010 Terminology evolution and legal development: A case study of Chinese legal terminology Terminology 16:2, pp. 159–180 | Article
The present study deals with the relationship between terminology evolution and legal development. Altogether 100 Chinese legal terms are randomly collected from Chinese statutes in order to examine the legal development in China from 1912 to the present. The results demonstrate that terminology… read more
2008 A court judgment as dialogue Dialogue and Rhetoric, Weigand, Edda (ed.), pp. 267–281 | Article
Dialogue is of cardinal importance in maintaining the interpersonal relationship between judges and facilitating judgment drafting as collaborative problem solving. It is also important for the check and balance between courts and the legislature. A court judgment can therefore be taken as a… read more