Yang Wu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yang Wu is involved.
Articles
2025 China’s official use and translation of conflict metaphor over two decades: From statistical to behavioural variations and patterns Metaphor and the Social World 15:1, pp. 135–162 | Article
Comprising metaphors of war and fight, the conflict metaphor, a revolutionary legacy, is not only prevalently employed in today’s state communication within China but also officially translated for the international community. Analysing the Chinese authority’s general use and translation of the… read more
2024 The fight metaphor in translation: From patriotism to pragmatism: A corpus-based critical analysis of metaphor in China’s political discourse Target 36:1, pp. 50–75 | Article
The fight metaphors discussed in this article are linguistic expressions of physical conflict, a revolutionary legacy that still lingers in contemporary Chinese political discourse. This article takes a critical cognitive-linguistic approach to fight metaphors in translation, analysing a dataset… read more