Lily I-Wen Su
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lily I-Wen Su plays a role.
2021 Construction in conversation: An Interactional Construction Grammar approach to the use of xiangshuo ‘think’ in spoken Taiwan Mandarin Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 133–155 | Chapter
Although the Construction Grammar (CxG) model has yielded fruitful findings, the role that pragmatics plays in language has not yet been fully considered in this theoretical framework. The recent development of spoken corpora, however, enables construction grammarians to develop a new approach… read more
2021 Our metaphorical minds: Language as cultural manifestations Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1, pp. 85–108 | Article
Aside from metaphor being an important language device reflecting human cognition, it also provides a window into the understanding of culture (Kövecsec 2019). Language is a function of culture because it is a form of the verbal and nonverbal systems by which a group member can communicate with… read more
2021 Chinese idioms as constructions: Frequency, semantic transparency and their processing Language and Linguistics 22:4, pp. 558–592 | Article
Chinese Quadrisyllabic Idiomatic Expressions (henceforth QIEs) are highly productive in the modern language. They can be used to understand the cognitive processing of structure and meaning during reading comprehension, as in the patterning of [qian-A-wan-B] ‘1k-A-10k-B’ (e.g. one-thousand army… read more
2019 Construction in conversation: An Interactional Construction Grammar approach to the use of xiangshuo ‘think’ in spoken Taiwan Mandarin Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 131–154 | Article
Although the Construction Grammar (CxG) model has yielded fruitful findings, the role that pragmatics plays in language has not yet been fully considered in this theoretical framework. The recent development of spoken corpora, however, enables construction grammarians to develop a new approach… read more
2016 Metaphor and thought: Conceptualization of time in Chinese Conceptualizations of Time, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.), pp. 187–204 | Article
The paper focuses on the issues within the paradigm of Contemporary Metaphor
Theory, concerning significant differences in the ways time is conceptualized in
Chinese and English. Although it is still true that time is understood through space
via metaphor, the paper provides evidence that time and… read more
2015 On the principled polysemy of -kai in Chinese resultative verbs Chinese Language and Discourse 6:1, pp. 2–27 | Article
The present study sets out to construct a semantic network for -kai in Chinese resultative verbs based on the framework of Principled Polysemy. Our analysis concerning the cognitive-pragmatic motivations for the meaning extensions of postverbal -kai pinpoints the significance of perspective-taking… read more
2009 Review of Dascal & Chang (2007): Traditions of Controversy Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2, pp. 458–463 | Review