Jun Lang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jun Lang plays a role.
Articles
2020 Neological cancer metaphors in the Chinese cyberspace: Uses and social meanings Chinese Language and Discourse 11:2, pp. 261–286 | Article
This study examines emerging cancer metaphors that are encoded as a neological construction [X-ái ‘cancer’] using corpus data retrieved from Chinese social media. The quantitative findings show that [X- ái] is a highly productive construction where the open slot X attracts a wide variety of… read more
2019 What impacts L2 Chinese pragmatic competence in the study abroad context? Current research and future directions Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 54:3, pp. 191–220 | Article
This paper reviews current literature on contributions of the study abroad context to second language (L2) Chinese pragmatics and discusses the future prospects of this rapidly growing research area. By synthesizing sixteen empirical studies on pragmatic competence in L2 Chinese in the… read more
2018 “I am not criticizing you”: A constructionist analysis of an indirect speech act Chinese Language and Discourse 9:2, pp. 184–208 | Article
This study examines a Chinese indirect speech act conventionally expressed with what I call the construction of earnest advice. From a constructionist perspective, I posit that the construction of earnest advice is an indirect speech act construction. Its idiosyncratic form is paired with the… read more