Fang Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fang Li plays a role.
2023 Literature text as world reversing: Reversed worlding in a translation of verbal art Target 35:1, pp. 97–115 | Article
Because translators begin where authors end – with a completed text – their task may be conceptualized as a reverse worlding, or ascent from actual text to imaginary context. This article argues that the same is true, mutatis mutandis, for all verbal art, and that within verbal art, it is truer… read more
2021 How subjective are Mandarin reason connectives? A corpus study of spontaneous conversation, microblog and newspaper discourse Language and Linguistics 22:1, pp. 167–212 | Article
Studies in several languages find that causal connectives differ from one another in their prototypical meaning and use, which provides insight into language users’ cognitive categorization of causal relations in discourse. Subjectivity plays a vital role in this process. Using an integrated… read more
2019 The length of preceding context influences metonymy processing: Evidence from an eye-tracking experiment Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 243–256 | Article
Earlier studies have shown that conceptually supportive context is an important factor in the comprehension of metaphors (Inhoff, Lima, & Carroll, 1984; Ortony, Schallert, Reynolds, & Antos, 1978). However, little empirical evidence has been found so far regarding contextual effects on metonymy… read more
2018 医患互动研究 [Research on doctor-patient interaction]: 回顾与展望 [Review and prospects] Chinese Language and Discourse 9:1, pp. 75–95 | Article
医患互动历来被认为是医疗保健与健康传播的核心，近年来逐渐成为人文社科跨学科研究热点。目前国际范围内医患互动研究已经取得了一定的成果，但同时也展现出新的问题和挑战。本文对过去50年间的海内外医患互动研究进行了梳理和回顾，旨在呈现主要研究方法与视角、发展阶段、以及重要发现与成果。文章分别回顾了国外和国内医患互动研究，分析了国内研究尚存在的不足，并基于此对未来研究提出了建议和展望。主要发现有：（1）国外医患互动研究从1960年代起步，研究视角和方法呈现多元化趋势，相关研究可以被细化分类为：宏观“行为”研究、微观“话语”研究和会话分析研究。（2）国内相关研究始于1980年代后期，经历了萌芽、 read more
2017 On the online effects of subjectivity encoded in causal connectives Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:1, pp. 34–57 | Article
Causal relations between sentences differ in terms of subjectivity: they can be objective (based on facts) or subjective (based on reasoning). Subjective relations lead to longer reading times than objective relations. Causal connectives differ in the degree to which they encode this… read more
2013 Subjectivity and result marking in Mandarin Chinese Language and Discourse 4:1, pp. 74–119 | Article
Recent corpus studies have shown that differences in subjectivity − the degree to which speakers express themselves in an utterance − can account for the usage of causal connectives (because, so) in major European languages. If the notion of subjectivity is a basic cognitive principle, it ought to… read more
2012 Revoicings and devoicings: Requests, confessions and acts of violence in three “industrial” novels Scientific Study of Literature 2:1, pp. 108–127 | Article
In this paper, we take up three novels: Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1848/2008), Shirley, published just afterwards by Charlotte Brontë, and North and South, published six years later by Gaskell. Each novel is a revoicing of previous works, and we shall present evidence that the last two… read more
1986 Reminiscences about Edward Sapir New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 October 1984), Cowan, William, Michael Foster and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 371–404 | Article