Ping Liu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ping Liu plays a role.
Articles
Pragmatic manipulation of metapragmatic expressions in BELF meetings Applied Pragmatics 4:1, pp. 92–118 | Article
2022 This article explores the function of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) as pragmatic manipulation during Business English as a lingua franca (BELF) meetings within the framework of the socio-cognitive approach (SCA), with special attention to how MPEs in the chair’s utterances reveal their way of… read more
Responding to direct complaints: The role of MPEs in common ground construction in institutional telephone interactions Pragmatics & Cognition 24:1, pp. 4–32 | Article
2017 This article examines the role of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) in constructing common ground (CG) in the call taker’s responses to customer direct complaints in telephone interactions in the framework of the socio-cognitive approach proposed and developed by Kecskes (2008, 2010, 2013, 2017)… read more
The role of metapragmatic expressions as pragmatic manipulation in a TV panel discussion program Pragmatics and Society 7:3, pp. 463–481 | Article
2016 This study explores the role of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) as pragmatic manipulation in a media context, with data drawn from a Chinese TV panel discussion program Tiger Talk. It argues that the program host selects MPEs to manipulate the ongoing interactions, in order to solve or prevent the… read more