Xu Wen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xu Wen is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2213-8722 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8730
International Journal of Language and Culture
Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha
ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
Metaphor and the Social World
Edited by Susan Nacey, Dennis Tay and Sarah Turner
ISSN 2210-4070 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4097
Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
ISSN 1877-9751 | E‑ISSN 1877‑976X
Online Resource
Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy
Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
E‑ISSN 1877‑9638
Title
COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures
Edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses
The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] 2025. vi, 344 pp.
2026 The syntactic and semantic features of the “X zhōng de [ 中的 ] X” construction in modern Chinese and its motivations International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 13:1, pp. 1–37 | Article
This paper investigates the modern Chinese construction “X zhōng de X” (经典中的经典, jīng diǎn zhōng de jīng diǎn, classic among classics). Drawing on corpus-based method, we retrieved and manually annotated attested instances from BCC and CCL corpora, identified 440 tokens, and analyzed them within… read more
2025 What does water mean to us: water metaphors and metonymies in Chinese and English idioms Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study employs a corpus-based approach to examine the metaphorical and metonymic uses of water in Chinese and English idioms. The findings indicate that both languages share similar target domains of water metaphors, such as power, thought and emotions, based on shared bodily experiences and… read more
2025 Communicating the pandemic: Cognitive Linguistic approaches to meaning construction across socio-cultural settings, genres, and modalities COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2025 Chapter 2. Metaphors in Hausa newspapers about fighting COVID-19 in Nigeria COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 40–62 | Chapter
This paper studies metaphorical expressions related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Hausa language using conceptual metaphor theory (CMT). The data was collected from Premium Times Hausa, published in Nigeria from January to June 2020. The analysis shows that COVID-19 is metaphorically… read more
2025 Chapter 12. Visual metaphors in news cartoons on covid -19 in China COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 301–317 | Chapter
For a long time, the use of non-verbal symbolic patterns was considered to be an emotional and instinctive issue, and the cognitive and communicative functions of visual metaphors were ignored. But with the frequent use of visual metaphors in political cartoons, advertisements, propaganda… read more
2024 Metaphorical richness: A corpus study of money metaphors in English and Chinese language Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2, pp. 334–369 | Article
The present study probes into a comparative study of metaphorical expressions of money in English and Chinese. By hiring corpus-based methodology, this article aims to gain insight into the universality and variation of money-related conceptual metaphors manifested in corresponding linguistic… read more
2022 Semantics of the Chinese passive construction with retained object Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1, pp. 64–86 | Article
The Chinese Passive Construction with Retained Object (CPCRO) has aroused extensive attention from scholars especially advocators of Generative Grammar due to its syntactic idiosyncrasy. Previous researches primarily concerned with such syntactic idiosyncrasy concentrate on issues of its… read more
2021 Unweaving the embodied nature of English temporal prepositions: The case of at Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1, pp. 60–84 | Article
The metaphor time is space (Lakoff & Johnson 1999) and the pervasiveness of metaphor and image-schematic structure in human conceptualization (Johnson 1987; Hampe 2005) have been widely accepted among cognitive scientists as constructs that help explain non-spatial and temporal linguistic… read more
2021 Cultural conceptualisations of loong (龙) in Chinese idioms Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2, pp. 563–589 | Article
This study investigates the abundant metaphorical meanings of the term loong (‘dragon’) in Chinese idioms and the cognitive and cultural factors that influence those meanings from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics. To this end, we present a systematic categorisation of the idiomatic… read more
2021 Eating we live by: eating metaphors in Mandarin Chinese Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1, pp. 204–233 | Article
eating plays a pivotal role in Chinese culture as echoed in the saying mín yǐ shí wéi tiān “Eating is everything for people”. In Chinese, a multitude of expressions related to eating are metaphorically used to talk about aspects of living and we call them “eating metaphors”. eating… read more
2017 Leader metaphors in Ekegusii language Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:2, pp. 194–215 | Article
This is a cognitive linguistic study of a cultural-specific metaphor of a leader in Ekegusii, an African Bantu language in Kenya. A descriptive research design was used whereby the natives were asked to identify and explain the Ekegusii leader metaphorical terms and phrases, describe the social… read more
2014 A word from the editor Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:1, pp. 1–2 | Article
2014 Cognitive Linguistics: Retrospect and prospect Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:2, pp. 155–170 | Article
As a new paradigm of linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics has made great achievements over the past 30 years or so. In order to make the latest trends of Cognitive Linguistic research known, this paper presents the outstanding achievements and prominent characteristics of Cognitive Linguistics in… read more