Samantha Zhan Xu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Samantha Zhan Xu plays a role.
Articles
2021 Change and continuity in Hurstville’s Chinese restaurants: An ethnographic linguistic landscape study in Sydney Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World, Huebner, Thom (ed.), pp. 175–203 | Article
This paper investigates the Linguistic Landscape of Chinese restaurants in Hurstville, a Chinese-concentrated suburb in Sydney, Australia. It draws on Blommaert and Maly’s (2016) Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis (ELLA) and Scollon and Scollon’s geosemiotics (2003). Our data set… read more
2020 Chapter 11. Translating puns in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A relevance-theoretic approach to (un)translatability Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres, Wang, Wei (ed.), pp. 195–218 | Chapter
This paper takes a pragmatic perspective and draws upon a relevance-theoretic approach to examine how the issue of (un)translatability is addressed in English to Chinese translation, based on three Chinese translations of the English classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland taken from three… read more