Wenxing Yang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wenxing Yang plays a role.
Articles
2022 Cross-cultural differences in mental representations of diagonal time lines: Evidence from English and Arabic speakers Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:2, pp. 357–383 | Article
Accumulating evidence over the last two decades has established that people represent elapsing time along a horizontal or a vertical mental time line (MTL). A recent research (Hartmann et al., 2014) discovered an additional diagonal MTL which develops from bottom left to top right. The present… read more
2016 English and Mandarin speakers’ mental representations of time: Some new evidence about the language-thought relationship Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:2, pp. 385–415 | Article
The questions of whether aspects of language (spatiotemporal metaphor and/or orthography) shape temporal cognition in general and whether English and Mandarin speakers think about time differently in particular have attracted considerable attention and controversy. Focusing on these controversial… read more