Ruixin Cheng
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruixin Cheng plays a role.
Article
2022 ‘Suiran danshi’: A memetic contraction of paired connectives on Chinese social media Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China, Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu and David C.S. Li (eds.), pp. 58–78 | Article
‘Suiran danshi (‘although but’)’ used on Chinese social media is a novel variant of ‘suiran (‘although’)…danshi (‘but’)’, a typical pairing of adversative connectives in Mandarin Chinese. This article hypothesizes that ‘suiran danshi’ is a memetic expression resulting from pragmatic ellipsis and… read more