Central China Normal University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Central China Normal University*

Fang, Xinyu 2026 Review of Weibo News Package: A Systemic Functional Perspective on the Text-Reader Relationship by Juan He (2025)

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication | Online First Publication, 4 pp. | book review

Zeng, Min 2026 Review of The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach by Liao Meizhen [廖美珍] (2024)

Chinese Language and Discourse | Online First Publication, 5 pp. | book review | open access

Xiong, Bing & Juan Zhang 2026 The reception of contemporary Chinese science fiction in the English-speaking world: English translations of ten contemporary Chinese science fiction novels

Keywords: science fiction | English-speaking world | dissemination | reception | reader attention | reader recognition | science-fiction | monde anglophone | diffusion | réception | attention des lecteurs | reconnaissance par les lecteurs

Babel | Online First Publication, 24 pp. | article

Zhao, Yaru & Jiayu Wang 2025 “Brides as unaffordable commodities”: A feminist critical discourse analysis of metaphor scenarios in high-bride-price cartoons in China

Keywords: metaphor scenario | multimodal metaphor | feminist critical discourse analysis | high-bride-price | cartoon

Review of Cognitive Linguistics | Online First Publication, 27 pp. | article

Li, Jie & Huan Mei 2024 Review of A Literary Translation in the Making: A Process-Oriented Perspective by C. Borg (2022)

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 38:1 pp. 353–358 | book review

Wang, Jiayu & Yaru Zhao 2024 “Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”: A critical discourse analysis of controversial feminism in Chinese stand-up comedian Yang Li’s Talk Show Speeches

Keywords: yang | controversial feminism | proximization | STA model | IDCs/ODCs | talk show

Pragmatics and Society 16:4 pp. 568–589 | article

Pan, Victor Junnan & Bin Zhu 2023 On the syntax of causal clauses in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: causal clause | adjunct clause | left periphery | sentence-final particle | Chinese

In: Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz & Constanze Fleczoreck (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 231] pp. 221–249

Wang, Yong 2022 From syntax to morphology: Noun-incorporation in Chinese

Keywords: noun-incorporation | verbs | transitivity | ergativity

Studies in Language 46:4 pp. 872–900 | article

Wang, Jiayu & Mingfeng Yang 2022 Interpersonal-function topoi in Chinese central government’s work report (2020) as epidemic (counter-)crisis discourse

Keywords: interpersonal meaning | Systemic Functional Grammar | political discourse | crisis discourse | topoi | argumentation

Journal of Language and Politics 22:2 pp. 185–203 | article

Cui, Sixing 2021 漢語重疊的重音模式及其語體屬性研究 [A study of stress patterns and stylistic attributes of Chinese reduplication]

Keywords: 重疊 | 重音 | 變調 | 兒化 | 語體 | reduplication | stress | tone sandhi | Er(兒) Diminutive | style

Language and Linguistics 22:3 pp. 377–409 | article | open access

Wu, Tong 2021 类型学视角下汉语的双系式结构: 共时与历时 [A typological analysis on the applicative construction in Mandarin Chinese]

Keywords: 双系式 | 句法行为特征 | 语义角色 | 宾语 | applicative | syntactic behavior | semantic role | object

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:1 pp. 139–168 | article

Long, Haiping, Fang Wu, Francesco Ursini & Zhijun Qin 2020 On the formation of a conjecturing clause-taking predicate in Modern Chinese: A conjoining account of huaiyi

Functions of Language 28:2 pp. 183–207 | article

Ursini, Francesco-Alessio 2020 Prolegomena to a theory of chorophorics

Keywords: spatial adpositions | spatial nouns | chorophorics | lexical typology

Studies in Language 45:4 pp. 753–790 | article

Yang Shanshan, Li Defeng & Lei Victoria Lai Cheng 2020 The impact of source text presence on simultaneous interpreting performance in fast speeches: Will it help trainees or not?

Keywords: SI performance | fast speech | ST presence | trainee interpreters | performances en interprétation simultanée | débit de discours rapide | accès au texte source | interprètes stagiaires

Babel 66:4/5 pp. 588–603 | article

Liu, Donghong 2019 Comparative rhetoric and emic approaches to Chinese persuasive strategies in hotel discourse

Keywords: comparative rhetoric | emic approach | hotel discourse | Chinese persuasion strategies

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:2 pp. 168–187 | article

Tan, Hua & Bing Xiong 2019 Luise von Flotow and Farzaneh Farahzad, eds. Translating Women: Different Voices and New Horizons

Target 32:1 pp. 166–171 | book review

Wang, Jiayu 2018  Charteris-Black, Jonathan (2014). Analysing political speeches: Rhetoric, discourse and metaphor

Journal of Language and Politics 17:3 pp. 447–449 | book review

Zhang Lirui 2018 Yao Shuangyun 2017. Discourse-type Based Studies of Chinese Conjunctions (姚双云《关联标记的语体差异性研究》)

Chinese Language and Discourse 9:1 pp. 103–107 | book review

Long, Haiping & Pengfei Kuang 2018 Modern Chinese confirmative shi : Auxiliary or adverb?

Functions of Language 24:3 pp. 294–318 | article

Wang, Yong 2017 Impersonal clauses in Chinese

Functions of Language 23:3 pp. 361–383 | article

Wang, Yong & Jie Xu 2013 A systemic typology of existential and possessive constructions

Functions of Language 20:1 pp. 1–30 | article

Chen, Lang 1993 Review of Interpreting Chinese, Interpreting China edited by Robin Setton (2011)Review of Interpreters in Early Imperial China by Rachel Lung (2011)Review of Translation and Fantasy Literature in Taiwan: Translators as Cultural Brokers and Social Networkers by Chung Yu-Ling (2013)

Translation and Interpreting Studies 11:1 pp. 118–128 | book review

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