Weiwei Zhang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Weiwei Zhang is involved.

Articles

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts 2015 Cross-linguistic variation in metonymies for PERSON: A Chinese-English contrastive study Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:1, pp. 220–256 | Article

This paper investigates metonymies for person in Chinese and English in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics with an emphasis on cross-linguistic variation. Our central goal is to highlight the important role of cultural elements on the use of metonymy. Three main types of cross-linguistic… read more

Anishchanka, Alena V. and Weiwei Zhang 2012 Review of Philip (2011): Colouring Meaning: Collocation and Connotation in Figurative Language Metaphor and the Social World 2:1, pp. 121–129 | Review

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts 2011 Variation in the (non)metonymic capital names in Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese Metaphor and the Social World 1:1, pp. 90–112 | Article

This paper examines the (non)metonymic usage of capital names in news articles from Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese and shows that this phenomenon is actually more complex than might have been expected. We annotated capital names extracted from a self-built news corpus with insights from… read more