Xu Wen

orcid.org/0000-0003-3781-1125

List of John Benjamins publications for which Xu Wen plays a role.

Journals

Cognitive Linguistic Studies (CogLS)

Edited by Xu Wen and Zoltán Kövecses

ISSN 2213-8722 | E-ISSN 2213-8730

International Journal of Language and Culture (IJoLC)

Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha

ISSN 2214-3157 | E-ISSN 2214-3165

Metaphor and the Social World (MSW)

Edited by Aletta G. Dorst, Susan Nacey and Dennis Tay

ISSN 2210-4070 | E-ISSN 2210-4097

Review of Cognitive Linguistics (RCL)

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

ISSN 1877-9751 | E-ISSN 1877-976X

Online Resource

Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (eMetBib)

Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

E-ISSN 1877-9638

Articles (8) | Order by:

Chen, Chuanhong and Xu Wen 2024 Metaphorical richness: A corpus study of money metaphors in English and Chinese language Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2, pp. 334–369 | Article

The present study probes into a comparative study of metaphorical expressions of money in English and Chinese. By hiring corpus-based methodology, this article aims to gain insight into the universality and variation of money-related conceptual metaphors manifested in corresponding linguistic… read more

Jiang, Canzhong and Xu Wen 2022 Semantics of the Chinese passive construction with retained object Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1, pp. 64–86 | Article

The Chinese Passive Construction with Retained Object (CPCRO) has aroused extensive attention from scholars especially advocators of Generative Grammar due to its syntactic idiosyncrasy. Previous researches primarily concerned with such syntactic idiosyncrasy concentrate on issues of its… read more

Morras, Javier and Xu Wen 2021 Unweaving the embodied nature of English temporal prepositions: The case of at Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1, pp. 60–84 | Article

The metaphor time is space (Lakoff & Johnson 1999) and the pervasiveness of metaphor and image-schematic structure in human conceptualization (Johnson 1987; Hampe 2005) have been widely accepted among cognitive scientists as constructs that help explain non-spatial and temporal linguistic… read more

Wen, Xu and Chuanhong Chen 2021 Cultural conceptualisations of loong (龙) in Chinese idioms Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2, pp. 563–589 | Article

This study investigates the abundant metaphorical meanings of the term loong (‘dragon’) in Chinese idioms and the cognitive and cultural factors that influence those meanings from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics. To this end, we present a systematic categorisation of the idiomatic… read more

Yang, Kun, Jinqiu Guo and Xu Wen 2021 Eating we live by: eating metaphors in Mandarin Chinese Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1, pp. 204–233 | Article

eating plays a pivotal role in Chinese culture as echoed in the saying mín yǐ shí wéi tiān “Eating is everything for people”. In Chinese, a multitude of expressions related to eating are metaphorically used to talk about aspects of living and we call them “eating metaphors”. eating metaphors… read more

Onchoke, Aunga Solomon and Xu Wen 2017 Leader metaphors in Ekegusii language Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:2, pp. 194–215 | Article

This is a cognitive linguistic study of a cultural-specific metaphor of a leader in Ekegusii, an African Bantu language in Kenya. A descriptive research design was used whereby the natives were asked to identify and explain the Ekegusii leader metaphorical terms and phrases, describe the social… read more

Wen, Xu 2014 A word from the editor Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:1, pp. 1–2 | Article

Wen, Xu, Kun Yang and Fangtao Kuang 2014 Cognitive Linguistics: Retrospect and prospect Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:2, pp. 155–170 | Article

As a new paradigm of linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics has made great achievements over the past 30 years or so. In order to make the latest trends of Cognitive Linguistic research known, this paper presents the outstanding achievements and prominent characteristics of Cognitive Linguistics in… read more