Wanwen Wang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wanwen Wang is involved.
Articles
2026 Casting nets, keeping fish: fishing metaphors in China’s digital dating ocean Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines how fishing metaphors, where romantic partners become “fish” and dating becomes “fishing,” structure relationship discourse on Chinese social media. By analyzing the viral terms 海王 (Sea King) and 海后 (Sea Queen) in online discussions on Zhihu (a Chinese Q&A platform), we find… read more
2025 “You look like my 14-year-old daughter”: A corpus-based study of sexist language in everyday sexism Twitter stories Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 13:2, pp. 155–181 | Article
The main purpose of this corpus-based study is to examine the different types of sexist language women are subjected to in their daily interactions with men, together with their hidden ideologies. To this end, we analysed a total of 1,118 English tweets posted on the hashtag #everydaysexism on… read more
Dependency distance and directionality in aviation maintenance English: A four-decade history under human intervention International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Dependency distance minimization (DDM) operates as a universal principle in naturally evolving languages, driven by cognitive efficiency pressures favoring shorter dependencies. However, diachronic investigation of controlled languages remains absent. This study explored syntactic complexity… read more