Alex C. Fang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alex C. Fang is involved.
Articles
2021 Shell nouns as register-specific discourse devices International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:2, pp. 219–247 | Article
This article provides a corpus-based investigation into shell nouns. Shell nouns perform a variety of referential functions and express speaker stance. The investigation was motivated by the fact that past research in this area has been primarily based on written texts. Very little is known… read more
2011 In search of poetic discourse of classical Chinese poetry: An imagery-based stylistic analysis of Liu Yong and Su Shi Chinese Language and Discourse 2:2, pp. 232–249 | Article
We address the issue of poetic discourse in classical Chinese poetry and propose the use of imageries as characteristic anchors that stylistically differentiate poetic schools as well as individual poets. We describe an experiment that is aimed at the use of ontological knowledge to identify… read more