Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University*

Wang, Haixia & Henghua Su 2026 Review of A Social View on the Chinese Language by Jerome L. Packard (2021)

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 13:1 pp. 159–169 | book review

Huang, Lei, Esther Pascual & Todd Oakley 2026 Dramatized internal dialogue in a comedy by Shakespeare: Solitude speech as a socio-cultural, cognitive, and communicative device

Keywords: solitude speech | fictive interaction | conceptual blending | polysemiosis | theater

International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 pp. 155–182 | article

Wu, Yao, Henghua Su & Hui Yin 2025 Enhancing Mandarin tone acquisition: Computer-assisted pronunciation training in self‑directed L2 learning

Keywords: Mandarin tones | Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training | self-directed learning | second language acquisition | speech technology

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12:2 pp. 286–314 | article

Xiang, Xingyue, Rong Yan, Miao Li, Samad Zare & Yuchen Song 2025 Identification and classification of implicit speech acts among Chinese children in middle childhood*

Keywords: implicit speech acts | Chinese children | middle childhood | age differences | gender differences

Pragmatics & Cognition 32:2 pp. 354–381 | article

Huang, Boyi 2025 Self-Determined Participation (SDP): A theoretical framework for explaining unpaid human participation in translation (and beyond?)

Keywords: human motivation | volunteer | community translation | crowdsourcing | non-professional translation

Translation Spaces 14:2 pp. 195–220 | article

Sun, Ningzi, Rong Yan, Samad Zare & Huichao Bi 2025 Understanding unintended and unsuccessful ironies among Chinese primary school children: Age difference and impact of interlocutors’ social status

Keywords: unintended irony | unsuccessful irony | social status | age difference | primary school children

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12:2 pp. 217–241 | article

Su, Henghua 2025 L1 and L2 perspectives on the development of Chinese language acquisition

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12:2 pp. 185–188 | introduction

Liu, Hong & Adel Chaouch-Orozco 2024 Evaluation of the Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) as a quick and practical proxy for language proficiency

Keywords: language proficiency | proficiency test | L2 proficiency | MINT | LexTALE

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:5 pp. 759–773 | article

High, Michael D., Andrew McIntosh, Shuhan Li & Yu Ji 2024 Student machine translation use in a transnational English-medium instruction university: Navigating development and expedience

Keywords: academic integrity | China | English-medium instruction | language policy | machine translation | transnational higher education

Journal of English-Medium Instruction 4:2 pp. 238–258 | article

Sperlich, Darcy 2023 Measures of anaphoric-reflexive acquisition in Chinese

Keywords: Chinese | Korean | English | ziji | reflexive pronoun | pragmatics | syntax

In: Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects, Fotiadou, Georgia & Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 18] pp. 142–164

Zhang, Xiaojun, Gloria Corpas Pastor & Jing Zhang 2023 Videoconference interpreting goes multimodal: Some insights and a tentative proposal

Keywords: automatic speech recognition (ASR) | artificial intelligence (AI) | multimodality | conversation dynamics | natural language processing (NLP) | neural machine translation (NMT) | non-verbal communication | speaker diarisation | summarisation | keyword spotting (KWS) | videoconference interpreting (VCI)

In: Interpreting Technologies – Current and Future Trends, Corpas Pastor, Gloria & Bart Defrancq (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 37] pp. 169–194

Scott, Penelope 2023 Wellness: A cultural linguistic analysis of the conceptualisation of health

Keywords: conceptualisation of health and wellness | Clean Eating | wellness and science | wellness and pseudo-science

In: Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies, Reif, Monika & Frank Polzenhagen (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 103] pp. 146–169

Jeaco, Stephen 2023 How can we communicate (visually) what we (usually) mean by collocation and keyness?: A visual response to Gries (2022a)

Keywords: association | frequency | collocation | keyness | dispersion | log-likelihood | range | Gries’s DP

Journal of Second Language Studies 6:1 pp. 29–60 | article commentary

Fanoulis, Evangelos & Alessandra Cappelletti 2023 The leader and the people: Shifting boundaries in Chinese populist discourse

Keywords: populism | discourse analysis | unity in diversity | Chinese Communist Party | Xi Jinping

Journal of Language and Politics 22:4 pp. 512–533 | article

Scott, Penelope 2023 Conceptualizing health: A corpus-based Cultural Linguistic study

Keywords: health | concordance | cultural metaphor | cultural schema | semasiology

International Journal of Language and Culture 10:1 pp. 1–32 | article

Puig-Mayenco, Eloi, Adel Chaouch-Orozco, Hong Liu & Fernando Martín-Villena 2023 The LexTALE as a measure of L2 global proficiency: A cautionary tale based on a partial replication of Lemhöfer and Broersma (2012)

Keywords: LexTALE | L2 global proficiency | vocabulary size | conceptual replication

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:3 pp. 299–314 | brief report

Cui Ying & Wang Hui 2022 Film song translation: Verbal, vocal, and visual dimensions: On the Chinese translation of Amazing Grace in the film Forever Young

Keywords: film song | translation | verbal | visual | vocal | chanson de film | traduction de chanson | verbal | vocal | visuel

Babel 68:4 pp. 565–585 | article

Serafis, Dimitris, E. Dimitris Kitis & Stavros Assimakopoulos 2022 Sailing to Ithaka : The transmutation of Greek left-populism in discourses about the European Union

Keywords: (de-)legitimation | populism | Greek/EU financial crisis | European Union | SYRIZA/Tsipras | critical discourse studies (CDS) | argumentation theory

Journal of Language and Politics 21:2 pp. 344–369 | article

Jeaco, Stephen 2021 Concordance line sorting in The Prime Machine

Keywords: concordance line ranking | data-driven learning | lexical patterning | collocation

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:2 pp. 284–297 | article

Jeaco, Stephen 2021 Exploring register with The Prime Machine : Promoting register awareness through a module for English majors at a Sino-British university in China

Keywords: register analysis | corpus tools | data driven learning | undergraduate corpus projects

Register Studies 3:2 pp. 279–298 | article

Scott, Penelope 2020  Mid hefigum byrþenum : A study of the burden metaphor in Old English

Keywords: metaphor | cultural schema | Old English | weight

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. 203–225

Jeaco, Stephen 2020 Key words when text forms the unit of study: Sizing up the effects of different measures

Keywords: keyness | effect size | key word analysis | log-likelihood | ranking

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:2 pp. 125–155 | article | open access

Wang Hui & Zhang Xiaojun 2019 Mitkov, Ruslan et al. Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology

Babel 65:5 pp. 735–740 | book review

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