“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition
Yanying Lu
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 10] 2019. xv, 178 pp.
Yanying Lu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yanying Lu plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Articles
2020 Chapter 8. Construing the self in discourse: A socio-cognitive approach Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian (eds.), pp. 157–179 | Chapter
This chapter explores the topic of signs of life through examining metaphorical representations of the inner self. The frequent use of inner self metaphors by Chinese speakers in talk-in-interaction suggests a close relationship between metaphorical conceptualisation and the communication of… read more
2016 ‘The Great Mother’: A conceptual analysis of mother and infant metaphors in DàoDéJīng International Journal of Language and Culture 3:1, pp. 34–55 | Article
This paper examines the metaphorical conceptualization of the core philosophical terms in DàoDéJīng, namely, 道 dào, “the way,” and 德 dé, “efficacy.” Based on the notion of conceptual metaphor, it can be argued that these two philosophical terms have gained meaning through conceptual metaphors… read more
2013 Interactions of cultural identity and turn-taking organisation: A case study of a senior Chinese immigrant in Australia Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2, pp. 229–252 | Article
Conversation Analysis (CA) has been used to reveal cultural groups with which an individual identifies him- or herself as interactants are found to practice identity group categories in discourse. In this study, a CA approach — the organisation of turn-taking in particular — was adopted to explore… read more