Le Cheng

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Le Cheng plays a role.

Journal

Edited by Daria Dayter

ISSN 1878-9714 | E-ISSN 1878-9722

Articles (9) | Order by:

Cheng, Le and Xiaobin Zhu 2024 Setting boundaries between crime and rights: Discursive (de)legitimation of abortion rights in the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs opinions Narrative Boundaries: Constitutional struggles in an age of polarization, Cordero, Rodrigo and Raimundo Frei (eds.), pp. 653–676 | Article

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson overturned two precedents, thus ending American women’s 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion. Drawing on Van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework and Labov’s model of narrative structure, this study focuses on how justices… read more

Cheng, Le and Xiaofang Chen 2023 Review of Chiluwa (2021): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building Journal of Language and Politics 22:2, pp. 272–275 | Review

Wu, Zhonghua and Le Cheng 2023 Review of Faingold (2020): Language Rights and the Law in the European Union Language Problems and Language Planning 47:3, pp. 300–304 | Review

Wu, Zhonghua and Le Cheng 2022 Review of Ajšić (2021): Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans: A Corpus-based Approach Journal of Language and Politics 21:4, pp. 648–652 | Review

Gong, Mingyu, Winnie Cheng and Le Cheng 2020 Development of deontic modality in Chinese civil laws: A corpus study Pragmatics and Society 11:3, pp. 337–362 | Article

In legislative texts, deontic modality helps define rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities. Based on a corpus of Chinese civil laws from 1949 to 2015, the study investigates the development of deontic modality in Chinese civil legislative discourse and examines the variations of… read more

Pei, Jiamin and Le Cheng 2020 Mapping terminological variation and ideology in data protection laws Terminology 26:2, pp. 159–183 | Article

This study aims to deal with the relationship between terminological variation and ideology by examining the system of terminology and the defined individual terms in data protection legislation. With two self-compiled corpora incorporating data protection laws in the United States and the… read more

Cheng, Le and Chen Cheng 2019 Sharon Clampitt-Dunlap. (2018) Language Matters: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Language and Nationalism in Guam, The Philippines, and Puerto Rico Journal of Language and Politics 18:5, pp. 798–801 | Review

Ni, Shifeng, Le Cheng and King Kui Sin 2010 Terminology evolution and legal development: A case study of Chinese legal terminology Terminology 16:2, pp. 159–180 | Article

The present study deals with the relationship between terminology evolution and legal development. Altogether 100 Chinese legal terms are randomly collected from Chinese statutes in order to examine the legal development in China from 1912 to the present. The results demonstrate that terminology… read more

Cheng, Le and King Kui Sin 2008 A court judgment as dialogue Dialogue and Rhetoric, Weigand, Edda (ed.), pp. 267–281 | Article

Dialogue is of cardinal importance in maintaining the interpersonal relationship between judges and facilitating judgment drafting as collaborative problem solving. It is also important for the check and balance between courts and the legislature. A court judgment can therefore be taken as a… read more

Le Cheng

Journal

Pragmatics and Society (PS)

Edited by Daria Dayter