Lingnan University

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

Metaphor, metonymy and lexicogenesis

Andrew Goatly

Subjects Cognition and language | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 78] 2024. | monograph

Asian Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca and Identity: Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:2 (2016)

Edited by Chit Cheung Matthew Sung

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 26:2] 2016. | special issue

Interpreters in Early Imperial China

Rachel Lung

Subjects History of linguistics | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 96] 2011. xvii, 181 pp. | monograph

Translation and the Problem of Sway

Douglas Robinson

Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 92] 2011. xiv, 227 pp. | monograph

Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology

Andrew Goatly

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Semantics

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 23] 2007. xvii, 431 pp. | course book

Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory: Modes, issues and debates

Leo Tak-hung Chan

Subjects Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 51] 2004. xvi, 277 pp. | monograph

Gu, Jiapei & Janet Ho 2026 Asymmetric discursive struggle: The discursive representation and contestation of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese cyberspace

Keywords: critical discourse analysis | digital discourse | China | anti-Black racism | discursive representation

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article | open access

Sewell, Andrew & Xinyi Huang 2026 The semiotic construction of cha chaan teng tea cafés in Hong Kong: A geosemiotic and historical perspective

Keywords: semiotic landscape | enregisterment | semiotic register | geosemiotics | sociolinguistics of food

Linguistic Landscape | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article

Gu, Jiapei & Salomi Boukala 2024 Examining the discursive construction of Chinese grassroots cybernationalism: A case study on the permanent residence law for foreigners

Keywords: critical discourse analysis | discourse historical approach | argumentation | Chinese nationalism | digital discourse | immigration policy

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 13:2 pp. 276–301 | article

Li, Bo 2024 Political motivation in media interpreting: 2020 US presidential debates livestreamed by two Taiwanese TV stations

Keywords: 2020 US presidential debates | media interpreting | COVID-19 | Taiwan TV stations | political motivation

Translation and Interpreting Studies 19:3 pp. 456–476 | article

Lung, Rachel 2024 Relay interpreting (chongyi) as auspicious rhetoric in discourse on China-bound diplomatic visits

Keywords: history of interpreting | conceptualization of translation | relay interpreting or chongyi | auspiciousness | Confucian and divination thoughts | histoire de l’interprétation | conceptualisation de la traduction | interprétation-relais ou chongyi | bon augure | pensées confucéennes et divinatoires

Babel 70:6 pp. 806–824 | article

Morar, Florin-Stefan 2023 First encounters: The earliest approaches to translating and interpreting the Chinese language in the early modern period

Keywords: history of translation | cultural history of translation | Chinese translation | China and the West | social history of translation

Translation and Interpreting Studies 18:1 pp. 139–158 | article

Li Bo 2023 Ethical issues for literary translation in the Era of artificial intelligence

Keywords: artificial intelligence | literary translation | ethical issues | translator’s professional identity | ethics of copyright

Babel 69:4 pp. 529–545 | article

Zhou, Feifei 2022 Aggressive banners, dialect-shouting village heads, and their online fame: Construction and consumption of rural Linguistic Landscapes in China’s anti-Covid campaign

Keywords: Covid-19 | Linguistic Landscape | discourse | rural governance | health communication | the Chinese internet

Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 pp. 248–263 | article

Hui, Isaac 2022 “It is still light outside”: Reading and translating Se, Jie and Lust, Caution as world literature

Keywords: Eileen Chang | world literature | Lust, Caution | Shakespeare | Jacques Lacan | Eileen Chang | world literature | Lust, Caution | Shakespeare | Jacques Lacan

FORUM 20:1 pp. 44–64 | article

Sterk, Darryl 2022 Pedagogical devices: On the subtitling of Atayalic speech in Indigenous films from Taiwan

Keywords: Indigenous film | subtitling | Taiwan | language shift | language revitalization | film autochtone | sous-titrage | Taïwan | substitution linguistique | revitalisation linguistique

Babel 68:3 pp. 416–440 | article

Ho, Janet 2021 Metaphors, powerlessness and online aggression: How Wuhan lockdown escapees were dehumanised during the COVID-19 pandemic

Keywords: COVID-19 | lockdown escapees | online aggression | impoliteness | metaphors | social media discourse

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:1 p. 77 | article

Bai Liping 2021 “Even more Reuters than Reuters”?: A case study on the quality of blog translation

Keywords: blog translation | quality | Roland Soong | EastSouthWestNorth (ESWN) | traduction de blog | qualité | Roland Soong | EastSouthWestNorthh (ESWN)

Babel 68:6 pp. 781–801 | article

Tong, Jasmine Man & David Morgan 2021 “Twice Bitten”: Two men and a translation: The making of the Stone

Keywords: collaborative translation | David Hawkes | John Minford | the Story of the Stone | the Dream of the Red Chamber | Hongloumeng | traduction collaborative | David Hawkes | John Minford | The Story of the Stone | The Dream of the Red Chamber | Hongloumeng

Babel 67:6 pp. 791–818 | article

Goatly, Andrew 2021 Thematic adverbial adjuncts of place and direction and their relationship to conceptual metaphor in A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad

Keywords: conceptual metaphor | marked theme | symbolism | A.E Housman | A Shropshire Lad | Systemic Functional Grammar | Metalude database

In: Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] pp. 17–44

Ho, Janet & Ming Ming Chiu 2021 Media portrayals of the Hong Kong Occupy Central Movement’s social actors: Multilevel and critical discourse analysis

Keywords: Occupy Central | Hong Kong | news media | social actors | multilevel analysis | critical discourse analysis

Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 p. 81 | article

Bai Liping 2020 Joint patronage in translating Chinese literature into English: A case study on the Chinese Literature Overseas Dissemination Project

Keywords: joint patronage | “Chinese Literature Overseas Dissemination Project” | translation | parrainage conjoint | Projet de diffusion de la littérature chinoise à l’étranger | traduction

Babel 66:4/5 pp. 765–779 | article

Zayts, Olga & Fefei Zhou 2020 Politeness and relational work in novel digital contexts of healthcare communication

Keywords: relational work | relational strategy | health communication | digitally-mediated communication | health apps | humour | mainland China | cultural practices

In: Politeness in Professional Contexts, Archer, Dawn, Karen Grainger & Piotr Jagodziński (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 311] pp. 107–126

Ip, Iam-chong 2020 After mobilization: Youth, political engagement, and online performance in Hong Kong

Keywords: social movement and on-line performance | internet-related ethnography | critical discourse analysis | Hong Kong Umbrella Movement | political participation of youth

Language and Dialogue 10:1 pp. 74–96 | article

Chen Xuemei 2020 Rachel Weissbrod and Ayelet Kohn. Translating the Visual: A Multimodal Perspective

Babel 66:6 pp. 1045–1049 | book review

Chan, Leo Tak-hung 2019 Contemporary views of translation in China

Keywords: cultural exportation | language service | accommodation | globalization | external translation | internal translation

In: A World Atlas of Translation, Gambier, Yves & Ubaldo Stecconi (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 145] p. 81

Yeung, Lorrita 2018 Chinese rhetoric: Modality patterns and the question of indirection in written arguments

Keywords: degree of assertiveness | modality expressions | rhetorical sequences | Chinese indirection | Chinese/English

Languages in Contrast 19:1 pp. 133–161 | article

Sewell, Andrew 2017 Functional load revisited: Reinterpreting the findings of ‘lingua franca’ intelligibility studies

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 3:1 pp. 57–79 | article

Chang Nam Fung 2018 Self-image and self-reflection: From China’s outbound translation strategies to her cultural export policy

Keywords: outbound translation | Chinese culture | cultural export | self-image | cultural awareness | self-reflection | traduction à destination de l’étranger | culture chinoise | exportation culturelle | image de soi | sensibilité culturelle | autoréflexion

Babel 63:5 pp. 643–666 | article

Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew 2016 English as a lingua franca in the Asian context: Perspectives on identity in a multilingual world

Keywords: language | English as a lingua franca | identity | Asia | communication

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:2 pp. 175–192 | article

Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew 2016 Experiences and identities in ELF communication: Insights from Hong Kong students’ written narratives

Keywords: ambivalence | power | English major | Hong Kong | English as a lingua franca | identities

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:2 pp. 301–320 | article

Chen, Katherine H.Y & M. Agnes Kang 2015 Demeanor indexicals, interpretive discourses and the “Kong Girl” stereotype: Constructing gender ideologies in social media

Keywords: demeanor | demeanor indexical | gender stereotype | gender ideologies | interpretive discourse | indexicality

Journal of Language and Sexuality 4:2 pp. 193–222 | article

Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew 2014 Hong Kong university students’ perceptions of their identities in English as a Lingua Franca contexts: An exploratory study

Keywords: identities | multicompetence | English as a lingua franca | Hong Kong | language and culture

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:1 p. 94 | article

Lung Rachel 2014 The Importance of Translation in Xuanzang’s Life

Keywords: Sutra translation | history of translation | Buddhism | Xuanzang | pilgrimage

FORUM 12:1 p. 79 | article

Raine Roberta 2014 Translation and Appropriation of the World’s Longest Epic: Tibet’s Gesar of Ling

Keywords: Tibet | epic | appropriation | orality | polysystem theory

FORUM 12:2 pp. 65–85 | article

Chan Tak-hung Leo & Liu Fung-ming Christy 2013 An Empirical Study of the Perceived Benefits of Finalyear Translation Projects to Undergraduate Translation Students

Keywords: Final-year translation project | learning outcomes | translation competence | translation training | undergraduate curriculum

FORUM 11:2 pp. 19–41 | article

Chang, Nam Fung 2011 In defence of polysystem theory

Keywords: polysystem theory | translated literature | norm | weak | adequacy | acceptability | binary opposition | heterogeneity | system | objectivity

Target 23:2 pp. 311–347 | discussion

Raine Roberta 2011 Translating the Tibetan Buddhist Canon: Past strategies, future prospects

Keywords: Tibet | translation | translation history | Tibetan Buddhism | Buddhist translation

FORUM 9:2 pp. 157–186 | article

Chang, Nam Fung 2012 Polysystem theory and translation

In: Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 1, Gambier, Yves & Luc van Doorslaer (eds.) [Handbook of Translation Studies, 1] pp. 257–263

Sewell, Andrew & Jason Chan 2010 Patterns of variation in the consonantal phonology of Hong Kong English

Keywords: new varieties of English | Hong Kong English | phonological features | intelligibility | implicational scaling

English World-Wide 31:2 pp. 138–161 | article

Lung, Rachel 2009 Perceptions of translating/interpreting in first-century China

Keywords: translators in antiquity | first-century interpreting | perceptions of translation | history of interpreting

Interpreting 11:2 pp. 119–136 | article

Olson, Stein Haugom 2008 2. Why Hugh Maccoll is not, and will never be, part of any literary canon

In: The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation, van Peer, Willie (ed.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 4] pp. 31–51

Chang, Nam Fung 2008 A missing link in Itamar Even-Zohar’s theoretical thinking

Keywords: culture repertoire | cohesion | resistance | polysystem | translated literature | centre | periphery | adequacy | acceptability

Target 20:1 pp. 135–149 | article

Yee Ho, Judy Woon 2008 Code choice in Hong Kong: From bilingualism to trilingualism

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 31:2 pp. 18.1–18.17 | article | open access

Lung, Rachel 2008 Translation officials of the Tang central government in medieval China

Keywords: medieval China | history of interpreting | translation officials | oral translation | diplomatic interpreting

Interpreting 10:2 pp. 175–196 | article

Chang, Nam Fung 2002 Polysystem theory: Its prospect as a framework for translation research

Keywords: polysystem | polysystem theory | norm | translation studies | cultural turn | ideology | politics | descriptivism

Target 13:2 pp. 317–332 | article

Ho, Judy W. Y. 2001 The cultural significance of coda in Chinese Narratives

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24:2 pp. 61–80 | article

Gu, Jiapei & Janet Ho Asymmetric discursive struggle: The discursive representation and contestation of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese cyberspace

Keywords: critical discourse analysis | digital discourse | China | anti-Black racism | discursive representation

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article | open access

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