Ping Liu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ping Liu is involved.

Liu, Ping and Wenli Xu 2025 Salience management: The role of metadiscourse in online new product launch conferences Internet Pragmatics 8:1, pp. 32–57 | Article

This article zooms in on metadiscourse resources to explore their salience management in online new product launch (hereafter NPL) conferences, adopting the salience theory of socio-cognitive approach (hereafter SCA) as the theoretical foundation. Drawing on data from 16 online NPL conferences… read more

Liu, Ping and Huiying Liu 2022 Pragmatic manipulation of metapragmatic expressions in BELF meetings Applied Pragmatics 4:1, pp. 92–118 | Article

This article explores the function of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) as pragmatic manipulation during Business English as a lingua franca (BELF) meetings within the framework of the socio-cognitive approach (SCA), with special attention to how MPEs in the chair’s utterances reveal their way of… read more

Liu, Ping and Huiying Liu 2017 Responding to direct complaints: The role of MPEs in common ground construction in institutional telephone interactions Pragmatics & Cognition 24:1, pp. 4–32 | Article

This article examines the role of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) in constructing common ground (CG) in the call taker’s responses to customer direct complaints in telephone interactions in the framework of the socio-cognitive approach proposed and developed by Kecskes (2008, 2010, 2013, 2017)… read more

Liu, Ping and Yongping Ran 2016 The role of metapragmatic expressions as pragmatic manipulation in a TV panel discussion program Pragmatics and Society 7:3, pp. 463–481 | Article

This study explores the role of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) as pragmatic manipulation in a media context, with data drawn from a Chinese TV panel discussion program Tiger Talk. It argues that the program host selects MPEs to manipulate the ongoing interactions, in order to solve or prevent… read more