Xinren Chen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xinren Chen plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1018-2101 | E-ISSN 2406-4238
2024 Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
The present study examines a variety of “identity work” that interveners perform discursively in the context of Chinese bystander intervention, a communicative strategy underexplored in related literature. Analyzing data from 3 Chinese social observation TV shows, it showcases the varied… read more
2023 Review of Yus (2022): Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem Pragmatics and Society 14:1, pp. 190–195 | Review
2023 “Let’s … together”: Rapport management in Chinese directive public signs Pragmatics 33:4, pp. 618–640 | Article
This study, drawing on a modified version of Spencer-Oatey’s Rapport Management Model (2008), attempts to probe into the underexplored phenomenon of apparent rapport management in Chinese directive public signs in terms of face, sociality rights and obligations, interests, and interactional… read more
2022 ‘Suiran danshi’: A memetic contraction of paired connectives on Chinese social media Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China, Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu and David C.S. Li (eds.), pp. 58–78 | Article
‘Suiran danshi (‘although but’)’ used on Chinese social media is a novel variant of ‘suiran (‘although’)…danshi (‘but’)’, a typical pairing of adversative connectives in Mandarin Chinese. This article hypothesizes that ‘suiran danshi’ is a memetic expression resulting from pragmatic ellipsis and… read more
2022 The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts Pragmatics and Society 13:4, pp. 625–643 | Article
This study explores the performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts. The analysis of both interactional data and post-event interview data indicates that the detection of moral transgression and moral identification may outweigh the power relationship and… read more
2020 Identity (self-)deconstruction in Chinese police’s civil conflict mediation Pragmatics 30:3, pp. 326–350 | Article
While recent pragmatic research on identity in discourse mainly focuses on ubiquitous construction of one’s own or others’ identity, inadequate attention has been directed to the frequently occurring deconstruction of self-constructed and other-assigned identities. Drawing on transcripts of… read more
2019 Kinship term generalization as a cultural pragmatic strategy among Chinese graduate students Pragmatics and Society 10:4, pp. 613–638 | Article
A common Chinese addressing practice is to address non-kin people with kinship terms, a phenomenon sometimes described as ‘kinship term generalization’. Previous studies have mainly focused on the characteristics and functions of kinship term generalization, confined to certain specific… read more
2019 Doing Power Threatening Acts (PTAs) in ancient China: An empirical study of Chinese jian discourse Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:1, pp. 132–156 | Article
This study examines an unexplored type of speech act named jian, which took place uniquely in the context of ancient China. Taking it as a Power Threatening Act rather than a commonly studied Face Threatening Act, this study examined remonstrators’ strategic modulation of their jian, and the… read more
2018 Chapter 6. Chinese writers of English RAs as creators of a research space in a national context: A diachronic study Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing, Mur-Dueñas, Pilar and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 129–149 | Chapter
Based on Swales’ (1990, 2004) CARS model, this study examines 95 research articles (RAs) published by Chinese English-language writers doing Applied Linguistics across three periods of time to find out whether and to what extent they move over time towards the conventional construction of the… read more