Nanjing University

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

Title

Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective: Special issue of Language and Linguistics 24:1 (2023)

Edited by Qiongpeng Luo, Zhiguo Xie & Xiao Li

Subjects Altaic languages | Austro-Asian languages | Austronesian languages | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Language and Linguistics: 語言暨語言學, 24:1] 2022. | special issue | open access

Jing, Ying & Zhou-min Yuan 2026 Review of The Pragmatics of Managing Negative Emotions in a Chinese Context by Rong Lei (2025)

Pragmatics and Society | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review

Mazhar, Bilal, Jing Niu, Yilin Ren & Inam Ul Haq 2026 Anthropomorphism, dependency, and trust in Generative Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the trust-privacy paradox through dual-theory integration

Keywords: Generative Artificial Intelligence | trust in AI | privacy concerns | perceived anthropomorphism | AI dependency | privacy calculus theory | media dependency theory

Interaction Studies | Online First Publication, 27 pp. | article

Wu, Xiaofang & Runze Liu 2025 Review of Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge by Pamela Faber & Marie-Claude L’Homme (2022)

Terminology 31:2 pp. 335–348 | book review

Zhao, Yunhe & Qiao Huang 2025 Review of The Linguistic Landscape in China: Commodification, Image Construction, Contestations and Negotiations by Yanmei Han & Guowen Shang (2024)

Pragmatics and Society | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review

Mao, Yansheng & Yue Zhao 2025 Empathy and vocatives in Chinese: From the perspective of ba pragmatics

Keywords: empathy | Chinese vocatives | ba pragmatics

In: Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”, Fujii, Yoko, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft & Kishiko Ueno (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 24] pp. 300–324 | open access

Yuan, Zhou-min & Xin Zhao 2025 Identity in guanxi space: An indigenous pragmatic study from Chinese culture

Keywords: identity | guanxi space | indigenous study | shenfen | zun and qin

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 21 pp. | article

Wang, Zepeng, Haoming Li, Yansheng Mao & Li Zheng 2025 Tailoring language to social hierarchies: A pragmatic study on the salutation in Zeng Guofan’s Family Letters

Keywords: salutation | politeness | social hierarchy | family letters | ancient Chinese | historical pragmatics

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 25 pp. | article

Wang, Yixin 2025 “Do you have a pen?” “Yes.”: A cross-cultural and interlanguage analysis of pre-request sequences in Spanish and Chinese

Keywords: pre-request | sequential organization | L2 Spanish | Chinese | pragmatic transfer | prepetición | organización secuencial | español como segunda lengua | chino | transferencia pragmática

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 38:2 pp. 510–543 | article | open access

Tshering, Sangsrgyas & Kai Sun 2025 實現—能力: 藏語動詞的一個重要範疇 [Realization-potential]

Keywords: 藏語 | 動詞 | 實現 | 能力 | Tibetan | verb | realization | potential

Language and Linguistics 26:3 pp. 496–532 | article | open access

Xu, Qi & Dandan Zhou 2025 Assessing Chinese EFL learners’ speaking proficiency levels: The distinguishing and predictive roles of cohesive devices

Keywords: cohesion | cohesive devices | second language speaking | speaking proficiency levels | speaking assessment | TEM-4 Oral Test

Journal of Second Language Studies 8:1 pp. 146–167 | article

Wei, Ying, Ruixin Cheng & Mingxin Yao 2025 Authorial presence in academic writing: A diachronic study of self-reference in Science abstracts and full texts

Keywords: authorial presence | scientific writing | science | research promotion

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:1 pp. 66–92 | article

Jin, Yingzhe 2024 Review of Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics by Rong Chen (2022)

Language and Linguistics 25:4 pp. 785–790 | book review | open access

Zhao, Xin, Yansheng Mao & Yihang Wang 2024 I am a doctor in your shoes: The empathic strategies employed by Chinese doctors during text-based online medical consultations

Keywords: empathy | Chinese doctor-patient communication | online medical consultation

Pragmatics and Society 16:3 pp. 380–400 | article

Li, Jie & Xinren Chen 2024 Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention

Keywords: identity work | pragmatic identity | bystander intervention | intervener | discursive practice

Pragmatics and Society 16:3 pp. 421–441 | article

Wang, Xinyue & Enhua Guo 2023 Review of Political communication: Discursive perspectives edited by M. A. Demasi, S. Burke & C. Tileagă (2021)

Journal of Language and Politics 22:5 pp. 754–758 | book review

Chen, Tiancheng & Xinren Chen 2023 Review of Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem by Francisco Yus (2022)

Pragmatics and Society 14:1 pp. 190–195 | book review

Kádár, Dániel Z., Juliane House & Hao Liu 2023 Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin 您

Keywords: Chinese | V pronoun | nin | disagreement

Pragmatics 35:2 pp. 155–184 | article

Wang, Zepeng, Yansheng Mao, Dan Xin, Haoming Li & Zhe Liang 2023 The devil lies in prosody: Prosodic veins of the Chinese discourse marker Haole 好了 at the left and right periphery

Keywords: discourse marker | left periphery | right periphery | prosody | pragmatic function | 语用标记 | 左缘 | 右缘 | 韵律 | 语用功能

Chinese Language and Discourse 15:1 pp. 1–26 | article

Zhao, Xin & Yansheng Mao 2023 If I testify about others, my testimony is valid: A study of other-justified discourses in Chinese online medical crowdfunding

Keywords: trustworthiness discourse | online medical crowdfunding discourse | other-justified discourse | Chinese

Pragmatics 33:4 pp. 641–662 | article | open access

Liu, Yujing & Xiangqing Wei 2023 From “three doors” to “one revolving door”: Extending the Theory of Doors for a cross-lingual study of the concept of violence in English and Chinese language and culture

Keywords: Theory of Doors | cross-lingual terminology use | linguistic | cognitive and communicative interrelatedness | concept of domestic violence | English | Chinese

Terminology 29:1 pp. 133–161 | article

Zhao, Xin 2023 A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations

Keywords: mitigation | disagreement | mitigated disagreement | working alliance | Chinese medical consultation

Pragmatics and Society 15:5 pp. 732–754 | article

Dong, Xiaona, Xiangqing Wei & Runze Liu 2023 A usage-based diachronic study of translated terminology: Exemplified by the translated term 资本化 (zibenhua, capitalisation/capitalise)

Keywords: diachronic study | the use of translated terminology | the theory of doors | zibenhua (capitalisation/capitalise)

Terminology 29:1 pp. 103–132 | article

Mao, Yansheng, Shuang Wei & Xiaojiang Wang 2023 Patients resist, doctors manage: The management of patient resistance by doctors in Chinese Online Medical Consultation

Keywords: patient resistance | doctor management | Chinese OMC

Pragmatics and Society 15:4 pp. 632–654 | article

Sun, Xiaochun & Xinren Chen 2023 “Let’s … together”: Rapport management in Chinese directive public signs

Keywords: public signs (gongshiyu) | rapport management | politeness | Chinese

Pragmatics 33:4 pp. 618–640 | article | open access

Luo, Qiongpeng, Zhiguo Xie & Xiao Li 2022 Degrees and grammar: An East Asian perspective

Keywords: gradability | degree semantics | comparative construction | cross-linguistic variation | Mandarin Chinese | East Asian languages

Language and Linguistics 24:1 p. 5 | article | open access

Wang, Yixin 2022 Politeness and pragmatic transfer in L2 pronominal address usage: Variation of T/V pronouns in Spanish by Chinese learners

Keywords: T/V address forms | L2 Spanish | Chinese

Spanish in Context 19:1 pp. 25–47 | article

Li, Jie & Xinren Chen 2022 The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts

Keywords: ritual | ‘mock intervention’ | moral identification | toast | toast intervention | Chinese dining context

Pragmatics and Society 13:4 pp. 625–643 | article

Mao, Yansheng & Xin Zhao 2022 Trust me, trust my words: Trustworthiness construction in Chinese online medical crowd-funding discourses

Keywords: trustworthiness construction | Chinese medical crowd funding | online discourse | online help seeking | discourse analysis

Pragmatics and Society 13:4 pp. 703–724 | article

Cheng, Ruixin & Xinren Chen 2022 ‘Suiran danshi’: A memetic contraction of paired connectives on Chinese social media

Keywords: connectives | pragmatic ellipsis | Economy Principle | Politeness Principle | Internet language | Internet memes

Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 pp. 58–78 | article

Chen, Jing & Xin Zhao 2022 An empirical study of Chinese university student advisors’ dynamic identity construction in the context of individual consultation

Keywords: student advisor | consultation | pragmatic identity | identity construction | Chinese university students

Pragmatics 33:1 pp. 23–48 | article | open access

Zhang, Yi 2022 Chinese adverbs: A Cognitive Grammar exploration

Keywords: Chinese adverb | cognitive grammar | lexical category

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:2 pp. 330–356 | article

Zhang, Anqi 2022 Mandarin de-adjectival degree achievements as inchoative statives

Keywords: degree achievements | inchoative statives | reflexive comparatives | scale-structure

Language and Linguistics 24:1 pp. 147–181 | article | open access

Cao, Yuzhen & Qiongpeng Luo 2022 The semantics of scalar equatives in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: scalar equatives | degree semantics | degree as points | degrees as kinds | cross-linguistic variation

Language and Linguistics 24:1 pp. 120–146 | article | open access

Yang, Kun & Jing Chen 2022 The son (érzi) is not really a son: Generalization of address terms in Chinese online discourse

Keywords: address term | generalization | referent | function | virtual context

Pragmatics 33:1 pp. 78–98 | article | open access

Yuan, Zhou-min & Xingchen Shen 2021 Radio program hosts’ self-identity mobilization in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultations

Keywords: self-identity mobilization | identity shift | identity co-construction | adaptation | communicative needs | radio phone-ins

Pragmatics and Society 12:3 pp. 390–409 | article

Feng, Wenjing & Xinren Chen 2020 Identity (self-)deconstruction in Chinese police’s civil conflict mediation

Keywords: institutional discourse | identity | pragmatic identity | identity deconstruction | mediation | Chinese police mediation

Pragmatics 30:3 pp. 326–350 | article | open access

Zhang Yi 2020 Non-canonical passives in Chinese: A mental space account

Keywords: the non-canonical passive construction | constructional function | Mental Space | counterfactuality | irony | 非典型被字构式 | 构式功能 | 心理空间 | 反事实 | 反讽

Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1 p. 84 | article

Jiang, Na & Xiangqing Wei 2020 Multidimensionality, dynamicity, and complexity: A reconsideration of the functions of metaphorical terms

Keywords: metaphorical terms in economics | functions | functional potentialities | reconsideration

Terminology 26:2 pp. 237–264 | article

Zhang, Jingwei, Yanyong Zhang & Daming Xu 2019 A variationist approach to tone categorization in Cantonese

Keywords: variationist sociolinguistics | Hong Kong Cantonese | sociophonetics | tonal categorization | 變異社會語言學 | 香港粵語 | 社會語音學 | 聲調歸類

Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1 pp. 1–16 | article

Xie, Zhiguo & Qiongpeng Luo 2019 Degree intensifiers as expressives in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: expressives | degree adverbs | degree intensification | multidimensional semantics | Mandarin Chinese

Language and Linguistics 20:2 pp. 256–281 | article | open access

Shen, Xingchen & Xinren Chen 2019 Doing Power Threatening Acts (PTAs) in ancient China: An empirical study of Chinese jian discourse

Keywords: court context | jian | modulation | power threatening act | ritual | speech act

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:1 pp. 132–156 | article

Ren, Juanjuan & Xinren Chen 2020 Kinship term generalization as a cultural pragmatic strategy among Chinese graduate students

Keywords: address forms | generalized kinship terms (GKTs) | Chinese | academic setting | family-centered cultural values | socio-pragmatics

Pragmatics and Society 10:4 pp. 613–638 | article

Dai Yongjun & Wei Xiangqing 2019 Translating ancient Chinese legal works: A contextualized narrative approach

Keywords: ancient Chinese legal works | default narrative features | translation | challenges | contextualized narrative | anciens ouvrages juridiques chinois | caractéristiques narratives par défaut | traduction | défis | narration contextualisée

Babel 65:5 pp. 633–647 | article

Zhang, Futong & Xuping Li 2019 「數＋量＋之／的＋名」的歷時語義演變 [On the semantic function of [numeral+classifier+zhi/de+noun]]

Keywords: 「數＋量＋之／的＋名」 | 數詞 | 量詞 | 歷時語義演變 | [numeral+classifier+zhi/de+noun] | numerals | classifiers | semantic evolution

Language and Linguistics 20:3 pp. 469–492 | article | open access

Chen, Xinren 2018 Chinese writers of English RAs as creators of a research space in a national context: A diachronic study

Keywords: Create a Research Space (CARS) model | identity construction | Chinese researchers | RA Introduction | national context | diachronic study

In: Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing, Mur-Dueñas, Pilar & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] pp. 129–149

Wei, Xiangqing 2018 Conceptualization and theorization of terminology translation in humanities and social sciences: Some reflections on NUTermBank development

Keywords: terminology translation | conceptualization and theorization | H&SS terms | NUTermBank | 3-M research model

Terminology 24:2 pp. 262–288 | article

Peng, Xinjia 2018 The emergence of a discourse construction in the internet: Technological affordance and socio-cultural factors in language innovation

Keywords: discourse construction | discourse | Construction Grammar | internet neologism | yě-shì-zuì-le | language change | context | social media | 语段构式 | 语段 | 构式语法 | 网语 | 也是醉了 | 语言演变 | 语境 | 社交媒体

Chinese Language and Discourse 9:2 pp. 209–243 | article

Technau, Björn 2016 The meaning and use of slurs: An account based on empirical data

Keywords: offensiveness | pragmatics | semantics | slurs | target vs. in-group membership

In: Pejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer & Heike Wiese (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 228] pp. 187–218

Zhoumin, Yuan 2013 Review of Analysing Identities in Discourse edited by Rosana Dolón & Júlia Todolí (2008)

Pragmatics and Society 4:1 pp. 120–126 | book review

Snow, Don 2008 Cantonese as written standard?

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18:2 pp. 190–208 | article

Jie, Xi & Yong Zhong 2008 Locating users of interpretation in the court: An impact analysis of literal and meaningful renditions in a mock court situation

Babel 54:4 pp. 327–342 | article

Guo, Jun 2006 An analysis of the (u)-variation in the “Town Speech” of Lishui

Keywords: Town Speech | (u)-variation | change-in-progress | internal restrictions and social factors | interlanguage | Putonghua | localized Putonghua

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 pp. 335–349 | article

Xu, Daming 2006 Nanjing language survey and the theory of speech community

Keywords: language choice | Putonghua | Nanjinghua | Waidihua | Nanjing | language survey | speech community

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 pp. 175–196 | article

Ping, Ke & Ke Ping 1999 Todd Burrell and Sean K. Kelly (eds): Translation: Religion, Ideology, Politics. Translation Perspectives VIII

Babel 45:3 pp. 282–288 | other

Ping, Ke 2000 Translatability vs. Untranslatability: A Sociosemiotic Perspective

Babel 45:4 pp. 289–300 | article

Li, Yuan & Xu Jun 1997 Sur la retraduction littéraire actuelle en Chine

Babel 43:4 pp. 303–312 | article

Ping, Ke 1996 A Socio-semiotic Approach To Meaning In Translation

Babel 42:2 pp. 74–83 | article

Wu, Xiaofang & Xinyu Huang Review of The Construction of Chinese-English Terminological Knowledge Base in Humanities and Social Sciences: Concepts and Methods edited by Xiangqing Wei, Runze Liu & Dongbo Wang (2022)

Terminology | Online First Publication, 13 pp. | book review

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