Xiamen University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Xiamen University*

Title

Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions

Edited by Laure Sarda & Ludovica Lena

Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 76] 2023. | edited volume

Han, Chao, Xiaolei Lu, Weiwei Wang & Shirong Chen 2025 Applying n-gram-based evaluation metrics to assess human interpreting: A battery of replications with internal meta‑analysis

Keywords: replication | internal meta-analysis | automatic assessment | interpreting assessment | machine translation | evaluation metrics

Interpreting 28:1 pp. 58–90 | article

Menete, Sérgio N., Guiying Jiang & Xu Qinliang 2025 Conceptualisation of mental activities through the body part ləbb ‘heart’ in Amharic

Keywords: ləbb ‘heart’ | mental activities | cardiocentrism | Amharic

Review of Cognitive Linguistics | Online First Publication, 32 pp. | article

Han, Chao & Yueqing Wang 2025 Conducting replication in translation and interpreting studies: Stakeholders’ perceptions, practices, and expectations

Keywords: replication | quantitative studies | translation and interpreting studies | cumulative science | postpositivism

Target 37:3 pp. 444–484 | article

Han, Chao, Shirong Chen & Jia Feng 2025 Modeling rater cognition in translation assessment: An exploratory investigation based on think-aloud, eye-tracking, and interview data

Keywords: translation assessment | rater cognition | scoring process | translation reception | eye-tracking | think-aloud protocols

Target 37:4 pp. 590–626 | article

Han, Chao & Shirong Chen 2024 Evaluating written versus audio feedback in formative assessment of consecutive interpreting: An exploratory qualitative investigation

Keywords: formative assessment | feedback | written feedback | audio feedback | interpreting | évaluation formative | retour | retour écrit | retour audio | interprétation

FORUM 22:2 pp. 182–205 | article

Lena, Ludovica 2024 Negative existentials and presentationals in Chinese: A parallel corpus investigation

Keywords: negative existentials | indefinite pronoun | translation strategies | counterexpectation | Chinese/English

Languages in Contrast 24:2 pp. 226–247 | article

Menete, Sérgio N. & Guiying Jiang 2024 The interface between body and culture in the figurative conceptualization of the “eye” in Amharic

Keywords: ayn | conceptual metaphor | embodiment | “evil eye” | buda

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2 pp. 296–333 | article

Menete, Sérgio N. & Guiying Jiang 2024 The semantics of the polysemic Amharic word fit ‘face’: For a new perspective in the cross-linguistic study of body-part terms

Keywords: fit ‘face’ | cognitive operations | metaphor | metonymy | body-part terms

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 pp. 510–543 | article

Han, Chao, Xiaolei Lu & Peixin Zhang 2023 Use of statistical methods in translation and interpreting research: A longitudinal quantitative analysis of eleven peer-reviewed journals (2000–2020)

Keywords: statistical analysis | systematic review | statistical literacy | statistical teaching and learning | translation and interpreting research

Target 35:4 pp. 483–513 | article

Sarda, Laure & Ludovica Lena 2023 Existential constructions: In search of a definition

In: Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions, Sarda, Laure & Ludovica Lena (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 76] pp. 1–32

Lena, Ludovica 2023 Partition and existence: The case of you ren ‘there’s someone, there are people’ in Chinese

Keywords: bare noun | biclausal construction | coercion | coda | genericity | spoken data

In: Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions, Sarda, Laure & Ludovica Lena (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 76] pp. 245–282

Han, Chao, Juan Hu & Yi Deng 2023 Effects of language background and directionality on raters’ assessments of spoken-language interpreting

Keywords: language background | interpreting directionality | interpreting studies | rater-mediated assessment | spoken-language interpreting | antecedentes lingüísticos | direccionalidad de la interpretación | estudios de interpretación | evaluación mediada por evaluadores | interpretación de la lengua hablada

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 36:2 pp. 556–584 | article

Zhang, Kunkun 2022 Review of Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics edited by Klaus P. Schneider & Elly Ifantidou (2020)

Pragmatics and Society 13:2 pp. 341–345 | book review

Shi, Xiaodong 2022 Automatic construction of a dictionary of variant forms of Chinese characters

Keywords: Chinese character variants | variant words | dictionary | artificial intelligence | phonetic annotation | 异体字 | 异体词 | 词典 | 人工智能 | 注音

Chinese Language and Discourse 14:1 pp. 121–135 | article

Han, Chao & Liuyan Yang 2022 Relating utterance fluency to perceived fluency of interpreting: A partial replication and a mini meta-analysis

Keywords: utterance fluency | perceived fluency | consecutive interpreting | replication | meta-analysis

Translation and Interpreting Studies 18:3 pp. 421–447 | article

Han, Chao & Xiaoqi Shang 2022 An item-based, Rasch-calibrated approach to assessing translation quality

Keywords: translation quality assessment | many-facet Rasch measurement | item-based assessment | item calibration

Target 35:1 pp. 63–96 | article

Lu, Xiaolei & Chao Han 2022 Automatic assessment of spoken-language interpreting based on machine-translation evaluation metrics: A multi-scenario exploratory study

Keywords: automatic assessment | human assessment | evaluation metrics | spoken-language interpreting | machine translation (MT)

Interpreting 25:1 pp. 109–143 | article

Menete, Sérgio N. & Guiying Jiang 2021 Red-hot faces and burnt hearts: Anger is heat metaphor from Amharic and Changana perspective

Keywords: metaphor | emotion | anger | embodiment | Amharic | Changana

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2 pp. 482–516 | article

Han, Chao 2021 Assessing spoken-language interpreting: The method of comparative judgement

Keywords: spoken-language interpreting | comparative judgement | scoring method | interpreting assessment | interpreting quality

Interpreting 24:1 pp. 59–83 | article

Han, Chao, Rui Xiao & Wei Su 2021 Assessing the fidelity of consecutive interpreting: The effects of using source versus target text as the reference material

Keywords: fidelity | consecutive interpreting | rater-mediated assessment | source text | target text

Interpreting 23:2 pp. 245–268 | article

Liu, Ying, Ruying Qi & Bruno Di Biase 2021 Cross-linguistic influence of L2 on L1 in late Chinese-English bilinguals: The case of subject realisation

Keywords: Chinese-English bilinguals | L2 effects | L1 environment | subject realisation | null subjects

Journal of Second Language Studies 3:2 pp. 290–315 | article

Xiao, Hongling, Fang Li, Ted J. M. Sanders & Wilbert P. M. S. Spooren 2020 How subjective are Mandarin reason connectives?: A corpus study of spontaneous conversation, microblog and newspaper discourse

Keywords: subjectivity | Mandarin reason connective | multi-style discourse

Language and Linguistics 22:1 pp. 167–212 | article | open access

Wang, Jiawei 2020 Love, R. (2020). Overcoming Challenges in Corpus Construction: The spoken British National Corpus 2014

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:4 pp. 504–510 | book review

Yang Huabo 2019 Sara Dicerto. Multimodal Pragmatics and Translation: A New Model for Source Text Analysis

Babel 65:5 pp. 729–734 | book review

Peng, Xin & Wei Zhang 2020 Talk and gesture in storytelling sequences in Mandarin conversation

Keywords: talk | gesture | storytelling | coordination | Mandarin | conversation analysis | 话语 | 手势 | 故事叙述 | 协同 | 普通话 | 会话分析

Chinese Language and Discourse 10:2 pp. 133–157 | article

Yang, He & Wei Ren 2021 Pragmatic awareness and second language learning motivation: A mixed-methods investigation

Keywords: L2 motivation | pragmatic awareness | appropriateness judgment task

Pragmatics & Cognition 26:2/3 pp. 447–473 | article

Fu, Rongbo & Jing Chen 2019 Negotiating interpersonal relations in Chinese-English diplomatic interpreting: Explicitation of modality as a case in point

Keywords: conference interpreting | role | explicitation | modality | corpus

Interpreting 21:1 pp. 12–35 | article

Chen Pushun 2018 Chen and Yang, (Eds.), 2016. Interpreting Studies: The Way Forward –Proceedings of the 10th National Conference and International Forum on Interpreting

Babel 63:5 pp. 760–766 | book review

Song, Hua 2017 Angelelli, Claudia V. & Brian James Baer, eds. 2015. Researching Translation and Interpreting

Target 29:1 pp. 145–149 | book review

Su, Wei 2017 Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, Susanne Göpferich & Sharon O’Brien, eds. 2015. Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process Research

Target 29:1 pp. 168–172 | book review

Song, Hua 2017 Mikelson and Jourdenais, eds. (2015). The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting

Babel 63:2 pp. 294–302 | book review

Xiao, Xiaoyan, Xiaoyan Chen & Jeffrey Levi Palmer 2015 Chinese Deaf viewers’ comprehension of sign language interpreting on television: An experimental study

Keywords: signed language interpreting | television news | Deaf | Chinese Sign Language | comprehension testing

Interpreting 17:1 p. 91 | article

Yang Shizhuo & Sun Zhiming 2012 On Peter Newmark: Translation theory and influence from the Chinese perspective

Keywords: Peter Newmark | traduction sémantique | traduction communicative | approche corrélative à la traduction | vue chinoise

FORUM 10:2 pp. 229–253 | article

Yang Shizhuo & Yang Wenrui 2010 TL Ideology and Canonization, the Making of a Translation Exemplified with Chinese Translations of The Gadfly

Keywords: Translation | ideology | canonization | rewriting | The Gadfly

FORUM 8:2 pp. 241–266 | article

Yang, Shizhuo & Wenrui Yang 2009 Influence of Ideology, Poetics, Patronage and the Professional on Rewriting Vanity Fair into Chinese Texts

Keywords: rewriting | ideology | poetics | patronage | Vanity Fair

FORUM 7:2 pp. 277–298 | article

Xiao Xiaoyan, & Yu Ruiling 2009 Survey on sign language interpreting in China

Keywords: current status | sign language interpreting | survey | Chinese Sign Language (CSL)

Interpreting 11:2 pp. 137–163 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.