Yating Yu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yating Yu is involved.
Articles
2024 The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media: A corpus-assisted critical approach Journal of Language and Politics 23:4, pp. 520–543 | Article
There have been limited studies comparing Chinese and American news media in their descriptions of vaccines, especially their use of metaphors in the context of COVID-19. Hence, this paper employs a corpus-assisted critical approach to examine the metaphors used in constructing crisis discourses… read more
2023 Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers: A key keyword analysis of the thematic concepts Pragmatics and Society 14:5, pp. 695–716 | Article
Previous media studies have largely examined the media construction of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese-medium news media that are pervaded by patriarchal content. Yet, little attention has been given to the thematic content surrounding leftover women in the Chinese English-medium news media… read more
2020 A mixed-method analysis of image-schematic metaphors in describing anger, anxiety, and depression Metaphor in Mental Healthcare, Tay, Dennis (ed.), pp. 253–272 | Article
The importance of metaphor in psychotherapy and counseling has been shown by a growing number of studies. Image-schematic metaphors, which derive from experience of sensory processes and space, are potential resources for conceptualizing major themes like anger, anxiety, and depression in… read more