Chun Lan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chun Lan is involved.
2016 Pictorial-verbal metaphors in Chinese editorial cartoons on food safety Metaphor and the Social World 6:1, pp. 20–51 | Article
Based on a corpus of 120 cartoons collected from the website http://cartoon.chinadaily.com.cn, this study attempts to give an account of pictorial-verbal metaphors in Chinese editorial cartoons on food safety from the perspective of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and multimodal metaphor theory. The… read more
2016 Conceptual metonymies and metaphors behind the Five Phases: A case study of MU (WOOD), TU (EARTH) and JIN (METAL) Chinese Language and Discourse 7:1, pp. 66–104 | Article
This paper is based on an investigation of the Five Phases (五行, wuxing) in traditional Chinese thought within a cognitive linguistic framework. In analyzing three of the five concepts in the wuxing scheme, namely WOOD (木, mu), EARTH (土, tu) and METAL (金, jin), as recorded in ancient and modern… read more
2012 A cognitive perspective on the metaphors in the Buddhist sutra “Bao Ji Jing” Metaphor and the Social World 2:2, pp. 154–179 | Article
This is a case study of the metaphorical expressions in the Buddhist sutra “宝积经” (Bao Ji Jing, Ratnakūtasūtra) from the cognitive perspective provided by conceptual metaphor theory, aiming at discovering the conceptual system behind those metaphorical expressions and investigating what kind of… read more