Ruixin Cheng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruixin Cheng is involved.
Articles
2025 Authorial presence in academic writing: A diachronic study of self-reference in Science abstracts and full texts Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:1, pp. 66–92 | Article
Self-reference plays an important role in academic writing since it reflects the identity of the authors and may also serve as an indicator of authorial presence. This study investigates the diachronic change in self-reference by conducting a quantitative analysis of 23 self-reference markers in… read more
2022 ‘ Suiran danshi ’: A memetic contraction of paired connectives on Chinese social media Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China, Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu and David C.S. Li (eds.), pp. 58–78 | Article
‘Suiran danshi (‘although but’)’ used on Chinese social media is a novel variant of ‘suiran (‘although’)…danshi (‘but’)’, a typical pairing of adversative connectives in Mandarin Chinese. This article hypothesizes that ‘suiran danshi’ is a memetic expression resulting from pragmatic ellipsis and… read more