Sichuan International Studies University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Sichuan International Studies University*

Title

Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English

AuthorHang Su

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 123] 2025. | monograph

Wang, Yunyou 2025 Review of The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It by Genevieve Guenther (2024)

Journal of Language and Politics 24:6 pp. 962–965 | book review | open access

Wang, Wei & Xingbing Liu 2025 Review of Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory by Lucien Brown & Soung-U Kim (2025)

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

Li, Heng 2025 All flesh is equal: The influence of religious upbringing on communicative politeness in Chinese Buddhists

Keywords: culture | social hierarchies | interpersonal communication | politeness | religion | Buddhism

Review of Cognitive Linguistics | Online First Publication, 22 pp. | article

Jiang, Meng, Qi Luo, Xia Wang & Ting Cao 2025 Semantic activation of phonetic radicals in Chinese ideophonetic compound processing

Keywords: phonetic radical | semantic activation | phonetic regularity | Chinese ideophonetic compound processing

Language and Linguistics 27:1 pp. 53–72 | article | open access

Su, Hang, Jun Ye & Ziyi Xiong 2025 Unveiling the sex differences and their diachronic changes of thanking in spoken British English: A local grammar based investigation

Keywords: sex differences | diachronic changes | thanking | local grammar | spoken British English

Pragmatics and Society | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article | open access

Geng, Zhou & Shuqiong Wu 2024 Review of Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics edited by Karolina Krawczak, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk & Marcin Grygiel (2022)

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 pp. 234–241 | book review

Zheng, Yuying & Yumei Liu 2025 Review of Signed language and gesture research in cognitive linguistics edited by Terry Janzen & Barbara Shaffer (2023)

Gesture 23:3 pp. 298–306 | book review | open access

Zhou, Siyi & Yumei Liu 2024 Review of Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts by Manuela Romano (2024)

Journal of Language and Politics 24:3 pp. 537–540 | book review

Wu, Shuqiong & Shiyu Chen 2024 Review of Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections by Veronika Koller (2023)

Journal of Language and Politics 23:6 pp. 981–984 | book review

Zhu, Bin & Qingliang Ren 2024 Review of A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society by Esperança Bielsa (2023)

Journal of Language and Politics 23:4 pp. 617–620 | book review

Ren, Shuping & Bin Zhu 2024 Review of Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches edited by Claire Chambers & Ipek Demir (2024)

Journal of Language and Politics 24:4 pp. 694–697 | book review

Yu, Danni, Luyang Li, Hang Su & Matteo Fuoli 2024 Assessing the potential of LLM-assisted annotation for corpus-based pragmatics and discourse analysis: The case of apology

Keywords: corpus pragmatics | large language models | pragma-discursive corpus annotation | local grammar | ChatGPT

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:4 pp. 534–561 | article

Zhang, Shuling & Mengying Qiu 2024 Indexing a withdrawal from one’s previously-taken position: Using the multiple saying duì duì duì in Mandarin Chinese conversation

Keywords: duì duì duì | multiple saying | conversation analysis | concession | Mandarin Chinese | affiliation

Pragmatics 35:1 pp. 129–154 | article

Li, Heng 2025 Higher empathy predicts more manual pointing in Tibetan people

Keywords: pointing | Tibetan | gesture | empathy | individual differences

Gesture 23:1/2 pp. 45–63 | article

Zhang, Wenhe & Shaoqiang Zhang 2023 Review of Language as a Social Determinant of Health: Translating and Interpreting the COVID-19 Pandemic edited by Federico Marco Federici (2022)

Babel 70:3 pp. 445–449 | book review

Li, Jinyan & Zi Ouyang 2023 Review of Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach by Ning Yu (2022)

Journal of Language and Politics 22:6 pp. 952–956 | book review

Lv, Lingyun & Renqiang Wang 2023 Review of Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning by Fatemeh Akbari (2020)

Journal of Language and Politics 22:5 pp. 771–774 | book review

Wang, Fang 2023 Review of Narrative, perception, and the embodied mind: Towards a neuro-narratology by Lilla Farmasi (2023)

Narrative Inquiry 35:2 pp. 359–362 | book review

Yang, Yushun & Wulin Ma 2023 Review of Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić & Nicola Halenko (2021)

Pragmatics and Society 14:5 pp. 801–806 | book review

Li, Heng & Yu Cao 2023 Move in a crowd: Social crowding and metaphorical perspectives on the movement of events in time

Keywords: crowding | ego moving | time moving | time metaphor | anxiety

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:2 pp. 469–485 | article

Wang, Renqiang, Heng Li & Bo Yang 2023 The physics of time: How visual entropy cues influence spatial conceptions of time

Keywords: Temporal Focus Hypothesis | entropy | visual cues | space-time mapping | time spatialization

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:1 pp. 131–151 | article

Liu, Delin 2023 Review of Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction by Martin J. Pickering & Simon Garrod (2021)

Interaction Studies 23:2 pp. 348–354 | book review

Jiang, Yanyan & Shuqiong Wu 2022 Review of What it Takes to Talk: Exploring Developmental Cognitive Linguistics by Paul Ibbotson (2020)

Interaction Studies 23:1 pp. 143–149 | book review

Wu, Shuqiong 2022 Review of Corpus Analysis in Different Genres: Academic Discourse and Learner Corpora edited by M. L. Carrió-Pastor (2020)

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:3 pp. 386–392 | book review

Wang, Yunyou 2022 Review of Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse by Stuart Price & Ben Harbisher (2021)

Journal of Language and Politics 22:1 pp. 137–140 | book review

Wu, Shuqiong & Qiaoling Liang 2023 

Interaction Studies 23:2 pp. 341–347 | book review

Zhu, Xuelian & Vahid Aryadoust 2022 A scientometric review of research in Translation Studies in the twenty-first century

Keywords: Translation Studies | co-citation analysis | burst | temporal metrics | structural metrics

Target 35:2 pp. 157–185 | article

Li, Heng 2023 Worrying about your future: How anxiety influences people’s implicit spatial conceptions of time

Keywords: time metaphors | anxiety | future-oriented thinking | Temporal Focus Hypothesis | emotion

Pragmatics & Cognition 29:1 pp. 160–179 | article

Yang, Yushun 2022 

Journal of Language and Politics 22:2 pp. 268–271 | book review

Wu, Shuqiong & Jie Zhang 2022 Antonym order in English and Chinese coordinate structures: A multifactorial analysis

Keywords: antonym order | coordinate structure | multifactorial analysis | iconicity | accessibility

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:2 pp. 530–557 | article

Zhu, Bin 2021 Review of A Study on Outward Translation of Chinese Literature (1949–1966) by Xiuhua Ni (2021)

Journal of Language and Politics 21:3 pp. 509–512 | book review

Su, Hang 2021 Changing patterns of apology in spoken British English: A local grammar based diachronic investigation

Keywords: apology | local grammar | speech acts | diachronic speech act analysis | spoken British English

Pragmatics and Society 12:3 pp. 410–436 | article

An, Yi, Hang Su & Mingyou Xiang 2021 Apology responses and gender differences in spoken British English: A corpus study

Keywords: apology | apology responses | gender differences | spoken British English

Pragmatics 32:1 pp. 28–53 | article | open access

Wu, Shuqiong 2020 Review of Cognitive Linguistics and the study of Chinese edited by D. Shu, H. Zhang & L. Zhang (2019)

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2 pp. 590–595 | book review

Zhao, Yongfeng 2020 Review of The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres by Anita Fetzer & Elda Weizman (2019)

Pragmatics and Society 11:4 pp. 664–668 | book review

Liu, Xingbing 2020 Review of Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse by Xiaoling He (2019)

Pragmatics and Society 11:4 pp. 674–678 | book review

Su, Hang 2020 Local grammars and diachronic speech act analysis: A case study of apology in the history of American English

Keywords: American English | apology | diachronic speech act analysis | local grammar | speech acts

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:1 pp. 109–136 | article

Su, Hang & Susan Hunston 2019 Language patterns and attitude revisited: Adjective patterns, Attitude and Appraisal

Functions of Language 26:3 pp. 343–371 | article

Liu, Xingbing & Fengmei Cai Review of A corpus linguistic approach to analyzing “empathy” by Sabrina Fusari (2026)

Functions of Language | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review | open access

Zhang, Xin Review of Positionalities of Translation Studies: On the Situatedness of Translation Research edited by Garda Elsherif & Joanna Sobesto (2025)

Target | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review | open access

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