Qing Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Qing Zhang plays a role.
2012 “Carry shopping through to the end”: Linguistic innovation in a Chinese television program Style-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation, Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa (eds.), pp. 205–224 | Article
2012 The discursive construction of the social stratification order in reforming China Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 19–37 | Article
This chapter examines the discursive reconfiguration of the social stratification order in reforming China. Applying the two notions of metadiscourse and entextualization from the natural history of discourse (NHD) perspective (Silverstein & Urban 1996), I argue that the missing link between the… read more
2010 The discursive construction of the social stratification order in reforming China Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 508–527 | Article
This article examines the discursive reconfiguration of the social stratification order in reforming China. Applying the two notions of metadiscourse and entextualization from the natural history of discourse (NHD) perspective (Silverstein & Urban 1996), I argue that the missing link between… read more
2006 Cosmopolitan Mandarin: Linguistic practice of Chinese waiqi professionals Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese, Zhou, Minglang (ed.), pp. 215–235 | Article
China’s participation in the global economy has brought about a new professional group — Chinese professionals working for foreign businesses (waiqi). Focusing on the linguistic practice of a group of waiqi professionals in Beijing, this study compares their speech with that of professionals… read more