Wen-yu Chiang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wen-yu Chiang is involved.
2027 Chapter 12. Will Taiwan be the next Ukraine? A comparative analysis of U.S. and Taiwanese media’s employment of the analogy and counter-analogy Thinking Politically: Cognitive linguistic insights into political discourse, Vogiatzis, Anastasios (ed.), pp. 270–310 | Chapter
This study investigates the critical role of analogy in shaping political discourse. By integrating theories of Idealized Cognitive Models (ICMs) and “Self–Other” dynamics, we examine the analogy “taiwan is the next ukraine” alongside the counter-analogy “taiwan is not the next ukraine” as… read more
2023 When happiness can be luck: A comparative study of conceptual metaphors of happiness and luck in English, German, Greek, and Slovene Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:1, pp. 146–172 | Article
Previous studies have mainly focused on orientational, structural and ontological metaphors of happiness, and have not distinguished between luck and happiness; the latter in many languages originates from the former. This research aims to bridge these gaps by examining event-structure and… read more
2020 Political cartoons portraying the Musha Uprising in Taiwan under Japanese rule: Use of the great chain multimodal metaphors and conceptual blending Metaphor and the Social World 10:1, pp. 76–99 | Article
This study analyzes five political cartoons published in the Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo (Taiwan Daily Newspaper) depicting the Musha Uprising, an indigenous rebellion against Japanese colonial rule that occurred in Taiwan in 1930. The study has produced two important findings and theoretical… read more
2018 The kaleidoscope of divine images: Conceptual metaphors concerning God in gospel songs Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective, Hancil, Sylvie, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao (eds.), pp. 155–187 | Article
Compared to metaphors about God in the Bible, those in other Christian contexts seem to receive little academic attention. To bridge this gap, this study examines metaphors gathered from gospel songs on Billboard and iTunes to analyze the abstract concept of God from a cognitive linguistic… read more