Southwest University

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

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COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures

EditorXu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] 2025. | edited volume

Developments in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies: Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:2 (2021)

Edited by Kairong Xiao & Sandra L. Halverson

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 8:2] 2021. | special issue

Li, Yingying, Siqi Lyu & Xianyao Hu 2026 Child and adult readers’ processing of foreignized elements in translated Chinese picture books: An eye-tracking study

Keywords: translated children’s picture books | domestication | foreignization | reading comprehension | eye-tracking

Target 38:2 pp. 260–295 | article

Wen, Xu, Zichang Dong & Shuyan Yang 2026 The syntactic and semantic features of the “X zhōng de [中的] X” construction in modern Chinese and its motivations

Keywords: “X zhōng de X” construction | Cognitive Construction Grammar | construction | cognitive motivation

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 13:1 pp. 1–37 | article

Li, Xin 2025 Review of Construction Grammar: The Structure of English by Thomas Hoffmann (2022)

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:2 pp. 428–433 | book review

Zhou, Xian 2025 Review of Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics: A Formalist Theory of Metaphor by Michalle Gal (2022)

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:1 pp. 217–225 | book review

Wu, Xiaoqin & Xueyu Yue 2025 Review of The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective by Othman Khalid Al-Shboul (2023)

Pragmatics and Society 16:5 pp. 772–776 | book review

Wen, Xu & Shanfan Chen 2025 Visual metaphors in news cartoons on covid-19 in China

Keywords: visual metaphor | news cartoons | covid-19 | meaning construction

In: COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] pp. 301–317

Tsakuwa, Mustapha Bala & Xu Wen 2025 Metaphors in Hausa newspapers about fighting COVID-19 in Nigeria

Keywords: Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) | War Metaphors | Afro-Asiatic phylum | Hausa Language | Hausa Newspapers | Hausas | Fighting COVID-19 | COVID-19 Pandemic | Nigeria | West Africa

In: COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] pp. 40–62

Lennon, Joe, Wei-lun Lu, Xu Wen & Zoltan Kövecses 2025 Communicating the pandemic: Cognitive Linguistic approaches to meaning construction across socio-cultural settings, genres, and modalities

In: COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] pp. 1–8

Jo, Charmhun 2025 Directionalities of synesthetic mappings in Korean collocations

Keywords: linguistic synesthesia | directionality | universality | Korean collocation | grammaticalization

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:2 pp. 406–427 | article

Chen, Chuanhong & Xu Wen 2025 What does water mean to us: water metaphors and metonymies in Chinese and English idioms

Keywords: water | conceptual metaphor | conceptual metonymy | embodiment | sociocultural factors

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

Qin, Yutian 2025 Bitter Monday and sweet Friday — The bidirectional relationship between taste and time

Keywords: spacetime metaphors | taste | emotion | embodied cognition | culture

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:1 pp. 130–158 | article

Li, Jia & Xianyao Hu 2025 Is human translation more conservative than machine translation?: A corpus-based study measuring formality across translation varieties and registers

Keywords: conservatism | machine translation | profile-based correspondence analysis | mixed-effects logistic regression | risk aversion

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics | Online First Publication, 35 pp. | article

Ran, Chen 2025 Num-Cl adjacency and the morphological movement of numerals in Mandarin

Keywords: numeral classifier | pre-numeral modifiers | morphological movement | complex numerals | Mandarin

Language and Linguistics 26:2 pp. 262–293 | article | open access

Yang, Tian & Zihan Zhou 2025 Cultural cognition and cultural identity: Evidence from linguistic landscape in internet‑famous attractions

Keywords: linguistic landscape | cultural cognition | cultural awareness | cultural identity | field research

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:1 pp. 159–185 | article

Zhao, Xuan 2024 Review of Negative Emotions in the Reception of Fictional Narratives: A Cognitive Approach edited by Márta Horváth & Gábor Simon (2022)

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 pp. 242–249 | book review

Aziz, Amna 2024 Review of Time, Metaphor, and Language: A Cognitive Science Perspective by Sarah E. Duffy & Michele I. Feist (2023)

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2 pp. 466–472 | book review

Tao, Mei 2024 A cognitive modelling of translation: A construal-based perspective

Keywords: construal | construal operations | cognitive translation studies | optimal construal

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2 pp. 440–458 | article

Chen, Chuanhong & Xu Wen 2024 Metaphorical richness: A corpus study of money metaphors in English and Chinese language

Keywords: Conceptual Metaphor Theory | money metaphor | corpus-based | embodiment | culture

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2 pp. 334–369 | article

Dai, Fengju & Chengyu Liu 2025 Presence-prominence effect in multimodal eco-discourse: Taking ecological public service advertisement as an example

Keywords: audience’s understanding | audience’s reception | ecological awareness | multimodal eco-discourse analysis | prominence effect | rhetorical presence

Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:3 pp. 428–453 | article

Tang, Ruiliang 2023 Review of Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics by Klaus-Uwe Panther (2022)

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:2 pp. 488–497 | book review

Yang, Kun & Lincai Kuang 2023 Review of Figurative Thought and Language in Action edited by M. Brdar & R. Brdar-Szabó (2022)

Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 pp. 138–143 | book review

Xiao, Kairong & Wanyu Li 2023 In the eye of the beholder: A sentiment analysis approach to readers’ reception of translated metaphors in Fortress Besieged

Keywords: Weicheng | Fortress Besieged | metaphor | translation | reception | sentiment analysis | Python

In: Translation in Transition: Human and machine intelligence, Lacruz, Isabel (ed.) [American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, XX] pp. 104–129

Wang, Huijing & Jiaqi Xie 2023 Responsive strategies and self-identity construction in “Versailles Humblebragging” on Chinese social media

Keywords: versailles humblebragging | Weibo | responsive strategy | self-identity | social cognition

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:1 pp. 199–226 | article

Yang, Kun & Fei Wang 2022 

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1 pp. 170–176 | book review

Jiang, Canzhong & Xu Wen 2022 Semantics of the Chinese passive construction with retained object

Keywords: Chinese Passive Construction with Retained Object | Construction Grammar | polysemy | metaphorical extension | profile shift

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1 pp. 64–86 | article

Chen, Sijia & Jan-Louis Kruger 2022 The effectiveness of computer-assisted interpreting: A preliminary study based on English-Chinese consecutive interpreting

Keywords: computer-assisted interpreting | consecutive interpreting | cognitive load | speech recognition | machine translation

Translation and Interpreting Studies 18:3 pp. 399–420 | article

Wang, Xinglong 2021 Review of Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis by Angela Zottola (2021)

Journal of Language and Politics 21:4 pp. 644–647 | book review

Xiao, Kairong & Sandra L. Halverson 2021 Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS): Emerging trends in epistemology and methodology

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:2 pp. 235–250 | introduction

Wen, Xu & Chuanhong Chen 2021 Cultural conceptualisations of loong (龙) in Chinese idioms

Keywords: cultural conceptualisation | conceptual metaphor | loong | Chinese idioms

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2 pp. 563–589 | article

Yang, Kun, Jinqiu Guo & Xu Wen 2021 Eating we live by: eating metaphors in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: Chī “eat” | eating metaphors | mapping | systematicity | colexification

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1 pp. 204–233 | article

Du, Shihong & Yu Wang 2021 Metaphors and their semantic predictability in dyadic interaction

Keywords: philosophy of dialogue | metaphor | semantic predictability | coherence

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1 pp. 175–203 | article

Morras Cortés, Javier A. & Xu Wen 2021 Unweaving the embodied nature of English temporal prepositions: The case of at

Keywords: temporal frame of reference (t-FoR) | temporal structure | conceptual parameter | metaphor | conceptual basis

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1 pp. 60–84 | article

Li, Heng 2021 Living in turbulent times: The embodied effect of physical instability on opinions about the COVID-19 pandemic

Keywords: COVID-19 | conceptual metaphor | embodied cognition | physical instability | social cognition

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2 pp. 548–562 | article

Yang, Xiaoyu 2020 

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:3 pp. 364–367 | book review

Han, Chao 2020 Mariachiara Russo, Claudio Bendazzoli & Bart Defrancq. Making Way in Corpus-based Interpreting Studies

FORUM 18:1 pp. 105–110 | book review

Han, Chao, Sijia Chen, Rongbo Fu & Qin Fan 2020 Modeling the relationship between utterance fluency and raters’ perceived fluency of consecutive interpreting

Keywords: utterance fluency | perceived fluency | consecutive interpreting | directionality | rater type

Interpreting 22:2 pp. 211–237 | article

Chen, Sijia, Jan-Louis Kruger & Stephen Doherty 2020 Reading patterns and cognitive processing in an eye-tracking study of note-reading in consecutive interpreting

Keywords: consecutive interpreting | eye tracking | note-reading | cognitive processing

Interpreting 23:1 p. 76 | article

Li, Heng 2020 Less is more: Motor fluency impairment and body-specific representation of valence

Keywords: action fluency | body-specificity effect | space-valence mapping | replication | mental metaphor

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2 pp. 519–534 | article

Chen, Sijia 2020 The process of note-taking in consecutive interpreting: A digital pen recording approach

Keywords: note-taking | consecutive interpreting | process research | cognitive load | digital pen recording

Interpreting 22:1 pp. 117–139 | article

Sun, Sanjun & Kairong Xiao 2019 Chinese scholarship in Cognitive Translation Studies: A survey of researchers

Keywords: translation process | interpreting process | cognitive approaches | translation process research

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 2:1 pp. 125–146 | article

Li, Heng & Yu Cao 2020 Losing your footing, losing your morality: The embodied effect of physical slant on moral judgment

Keywords: embodiment | moral judgment | physical slant | conceptual metaphor | human conceptualization

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:2 pp. 497–510 | article

Li, Heng & Yu Cao 2021 The Wheel of Time: The relationship between religious experiences and Chinese Buddhists’ spatial representations of time

Keywords: space–time mapping | orthography | Buddhist | cyclic representation of time | religious experiences

Pragmatics & Cognition 26:2/3 pp. 197–214 | article

Wang, Wei, Lisong Jiang & Meishu He 2019 Being a Kam in China: Ethnic identity in narratives

Keywords: the Kam people | ethnic identity | narrative | sociolinguistics | membership categorisation

In: Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun & Linda Tsung (eds.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 10] pp. 246–263

Jacques, Guillaume 2019 Egophoric marking and person indexation in Japhug

Keywords: Egophoric | Factual | Sensory | mirative | Hybrid Indirect Speech | conjunct/disjunct | person indexation

Language and Linguistics 20:4 pp. 515–534 | article | open access

Shan, Xinxin & Aunga Solomon Onchoke 2019 Metaphorical motion in Chinese

Keywords: Chinese | entity-location duality | event | metaphorical motion | systematicity | complexity

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2 pp. 230–260 | article

Han, Chao 2018 Mixed-methods research in interpreting studies: A methodological review (2004–2014)

Keywords: Interpreting Studies | mixed-methods research | multi-method | quasi-mixed | qualitative | quantitative

Interpreting 20:2 pp. 155–187 | article

Han, Chao 2018 Callies, M., & Götz, S. (2015). Leaner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23:1 pp. 119–124 | book review

Han, Chao 2018 Using rating scales to assess interpretation: Practices, problems and prospects

Keywords: interpretation assessment | rating scales | reliability | validity

Interpreting 20:1 p. 63 | article

Onchoke, Aunga Solomon & Xu Wen 2018 Leader metaphors in Ekegusii language

Keywords: metaphor | cognitive linguistics | categorization | leader | Ekegusii

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:2 pp. 194–215 | article

Ding, Fangfang 2016 Review of Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse by Alexander Ziem (2014)

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:1 pp. 170–175 | book review

Han, Chao 2016 A survey to profile conference interpreting practice in China

Keywords: simultaneous interpreting | interpreting practice | conference interpreting

Interpreting 18:2 pp. 259–272 | article

Han, Chao & Helen Slatyer 2016 Test validation in interpreter certification performance testing: An argument-based approach

Keywords: performance testing | argument-based approach | interpreter certification | validity argument | validation | validity

Interpreting 18:2 pp. 225–252 | article

Han, Chao & Sijia Chen 2017 Strategy use in English-to-Chinese simultaneous interpreting: A descriptive-exploratory study

Keywords: accent | fast speech rate | interpreting strategy | simultaneous interpreting | strategy use | accent | débit de parole rapide | stratégie interprétation | l’interprétation simultanée | l’utilisation de la stratégie

FORUM 14:2 pp. 173–193 | article

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