Nina Liang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nina Liang 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
2025 Scalar implicature: An encyclopedic semantic approach Pragmatics and Society 16:1, pp. 46–66 | Article
Scalar implicature is a very interesting topic in linguistic pragmatics. This study is intended to argue that, based on the Cognitive Grammar paradigm, scalar implicature is contextually activated by schematic networks. From a hierarchical perspective, those linguistic units sharing the same… read more