Yufang Qian
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yufang Qian plays a role.
Articles
2014 Chapter 3. A decade of change in China: A corpus-based discourse analysis of ten government work reports Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China, Cao, Qing, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. 77–96 | Article
The Government Work Reports (GWRs) of China are important documents conveying the government’s voice and publicising the tasks they set for the country, and they attract much attention from diverse sectors of the community. Merging corpus methodology and critical discourse analysis, this study*… read more
2006 Passive constructions in English and Chinese: A corpus-based contrastive study Languages in Contrast 6:1, pp. 109–149 | Article
This article combines the corpus-based and contrastive approaches, seeking to provide a systematic account of passive constructions in two typologically distinct languages, namely British English and Mandarin Chinese. We will first explore, on the basis of written and spoken corpus data, a range of… read more