Nanjing Tech University

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

Title

Fictive questions in the Zhuangzi : A cognitive rhetorical study

Mingjian Xiang

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages

[Figurative Thought and Language, 18] 2023. | monograph

Articles

Wu, Jidong & Xinman Liu 2025 Review of Pragmatics of Internet Humour by Francisco Yus (2023)

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

Xiang, Mingjian, Esther Pascual & Bosen Ma 2022 Who’s speaking for whom?: Rhetorical questions as intersubjective mixed viewpoint constructions in an early Daoist text

Keywords: fictive interaction | intersubjectivity | rhetorical questions | the Zhuangzi | viewpoint blending

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:1 pp. 29–53 | article

Xiang, Mingjian & Bosen Ma 2020 How can I persuade you without making self-assertions?: A cognitive rhetorical analysis of the use of fictive questions in an early Daoist text

Keywords: fictive questions | intersubjectivity | mental simulation | perspective taking | self-persuasion | viewpoint blending | the Zhuangzi

In: Language, Culture and Identity: Signs of life, da Silva Sinha, Vera, Ana Moreno-Núñez & Zhen Tian (eds.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] pp. 249–274

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