Zaijiang Wei
List of John Benjamins publications in which Zaijiang Wei is involved.
Articles
2026 E conomy is living organism : Deliberate metaphors in Chinese economic editorials in the context of COVID-19 Metaphor and the Social World 16:1, pp. 126–147 | Article
Deliberate metaphors have been studied across various types of discourse, yet editorials have received relatively little attention. Drawing on the 4D model of Deliberate Metaphor Theory, this paper investigates deliberate metaphors that instantiate the conceptual metaphor economy is living… read more
From objects and processes to categories: Metonymy in Mandarin classifierization Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study proposes a metonymic account of Mandarin classifierization by reframing it as a profile shift, thereby challenging prevailing metaphoric analyses. An investigation of denominal (tiáo vs. gēn) and deverbal (zhāng vs. bǎ) pairs reveals that both denominal and deverbal classifierization… read more