Yuan Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuan Zhang is involved.
Articles
2026 Delineating how PCIs develop into GCIs from a cognition-pragmatics diachronic perspective: A case study of Chinese méimù Pragmatics 36:2, pp. 192–224 | Article
The Gricean GCI-PCI divide has long been questioned in linguistic pragmatics. Taking Chinese méimù in the CCL corpus as the case, the present study proposes the cognition-pragmatics diachronic model to examine Grice’s GCI-PCI divide. It is found that with the frequency of repeated usage… read more
2011 Topological spatial representation across and within languages: IN and ON in Mandarin Chinese and English The Mental Lexicon 6:3, pp. 414–445 | Article
This paper examines the commonalities and variations between and within groups of English and Chinese (Mandarin) speakers in using terms to refer to the topological spatial concepts of containment (expressed by in and related terms in English) and support (expressed by on and related terms in… read more