National Sun Yat-sen University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with National Sun Yat-sen University*

Tseng, Ming-Yu 2023 Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive: Toward an analysis of affective potential in two BBC videos

Keywords: affect | affective potential | directive | languaging | pragmeme

Pragmatics and Society 15:5 pp. 708–731 | article

Tseng, Ming-Yu & Grace Zhang 2023 How uncertainty can be turned into shared understanding: Evidence from online medical consultations in Taiwan

Keywords: higher-order stretching | medical discourse | online medical consultation | shared understanding | uncertainty | vague language

In: A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah & Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 338] pp. 373–394

Shyu, Shu-ing & Lio̍k-san N̂g 2022 Non-veridical kaN in Taiwanese Southern Min

In: New Horizons in Chinese Syntax, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] pp. 479–508

Huang, Shuping 2021 Culture-specific elaborations in cross-linguistic studies of metaphors: Comparing life is a journey in Chinese and British English

Keywords: life is a journey metaphor | event structure metaphor | Chinese | British English | corpus linguistics | cultural model

In: Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić & Anna Finzel (eds.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 14] pp. 213–236

Zhang, Grace & Ming-Yu Tseng 2020 Attitudes towards elastic language in Australian online healthcare information

Keywords: elastic language | vague language | healthcare communication | online information | elasticity | framing

Internet Pragmatics 3:1 pp. 34–63 | article

Wang, Yufang, Shu-ing Shyu, Wayne Schams & Hsun-Chen Chen 2020 Mandarin Chinese buguo (‘but’) as a metacoherence marker in TV/radio interview talks

Keywords: contrastive discourse marker | explicit contrast | implicit contrast | turn-taking | metacoherence marker

Language and Linguistics 21:1 pp. 104–144 | article | open access

Ou, Shu-chen 2019 The role of lexical stress in spoken English word recognition by listeners of English and Taiwan Mandarin

Keywords: spoken word recognition | English lexical stress | lexical tone language | cross-modal fragment priming experiment

Language and Linguistics 20:4 pp. 569–601 | article | open access

Tseng, Ming-Yu 2020  genre as struggle : Toward a cognitive-pragmatic account of an emerging genre

Keywords: emerging genre | genre as struggle | health communication | patient decision aid

Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 pp. 483–514 | article

Tseng, Ming-Yu 2018 Where cultural references and lexical cohesion meet: Toward a multi-layer framing analysis

Keywords: creative product description | cultural references | intercultural awareness | lexical cohesion | multi-layer framing

Pragmatics 28:4 pp. 573–598 | article | open access

Shyu, Shu-ing 2018 The scope of even : Evidence from Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: even | scope theory | lexical theory | negative polarity item | scalar implicature | presupposition

Language and Linguistics 19:1 pp. 156–195 | article | open access

Tseng, Ming-Yu 2016 Towards a pragmatic analysis of product discourse: Creative force and metapragmatic performance

Keywords: creativity and discourse | creativity in Chinese | creative force | metalinguistic awareness | shared knowledge | indexicality | metapragmatic performance | product discourse

Pragmatics and Society 7:1 pp. 105–140 | article

Tseng, Ming-Yu 2016 Multimodal figuration of product stories: Experience crossing and creating empathy

Keywords: metaphor | product stories | empathy | experience crossing | small stories

Narrative Inquiry 25:1 pp. 113–130 | article

Wang, Yu-Fang, Mei-Chi Tsai, Wayne Schams & Chi-Ming Yang 2014 Restrictiveness, exclusivity, adversativity, and mirativity: Mandarin Chinese zhishi as an affective diminutive marker in spoken discourse

Keywords: contrastive discourse marker | turn-taking | discourse mode | restrictiveness | mirativity

Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2 pp. 181–228 | article

Ko, Leong & Nian-Shing Chen 2011 Online-interpreting in synchronous cyber classrooms

Keywords: sight translation | interpreting teaching practices | Synchronous cyberclassroom | dialogue interpreting

Babel 57:2 pp. 123–143 | article

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