Molly Xie Pan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Molly Xie Pan is involved.

Journal

Metaphor and the Social World

Edited by Susan Nacey, Dennis Tay and Sarah Turner

ISSN 2210-4070 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4097

Pan, Molly Xie and Dennis Tay 2025 Chapter 8. Communicating socio-psychological meanings: Metaphors in Hong Kong press conferences on measures against COVID-19 COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 190–215 | Chapter

During the COVID-19 pandemic, government press conferences in Hong Kong explained the crisis, and detailed precautions, measures, and policy rationale, bringing together conceptualizations of the pandemic and emotional reassurances toward public concerns. Analyzing the uses of metaphors in such… read more

Pan, Molly Xie and Dennis Tay 2023 Individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video Ads Metaphor and the Social World 13:2, pp. 221–247 | Article

Reliable identification of metaphors from multimodal discourse has attracted scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video ads is underexplored from an empirical perspective. This includes the extent to which… read more

Pan, Molly Xie and Guangwei Hu 2022 Effectiveness of a CL-informed approach to English preposition acquisition by young Chinese learners Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1, pp. 87–109 | Article

While increasing efforts have been made to teach English prepositions to EFL learners from a Cognitive Linguistics (CL) perspective, the bulk of the extant research has focused on adult learners at the advanced English proficiency level and reported only quantitative results. Limited attention… read more

Pan, Molly Xie 2019 Federica Ferrari. (2018) Metaphor and Persuasion in Strategic Communication: Sustainable Perspectives Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1, pp. 215–219 | Review

Pan, Molly Xie 2019 The effectiveness of the Conceptual Metaphor Approach to English idiom acquisition by young Chinese learners Metaphor and the Social World 9:1, pp. 59–82 | Article

Although the Conceptual Metaphor Approach (CMA) has been claimed to be effective with respect to English idiom acquisition for EFL/ESL learners at elementary level, the claim awaits further investigation with empirical evidence (Beréndi, Csábi, & Kövecses, 2008; Boers, 2004). How CMA benefits… read more