Xin Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xin Li plays a role.
2021 A cartographic approach to sentence production in aphasia: Evidence from Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:1, pp. 73–101 | Article
There is much evidence that individuals with aphasia (IWA) are impaired in tense or aspectual inflections and the production of non-canonical sentences like passives. On the Cartographic Approach (CA), passives are represented at the lower node in the syntactic tree, with tense or aspectual… read more
2020 When lying is more than deceiving: A pragmatic study of lying, based on the relevance-adaptation model Pragmatics and Society 11:1, pp. 124–148 | Article
Lying is a common but controversial verbal phenomenon in human society. This paper aims to uncover the motivation and mechanism of lying as regards its definition, classification and operation by analyzing both the speaker’s production and the addressee’s interpretation process. The… read more
2018 Anne Barron, Yueguo Gu and Gerard Steen (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts, Jaworska, Sylvia and Torsten Leuschner (eds.), pp. 148–154 | Review
2018 Mediation through modality shifts in Chinese-English government press conference interpreting Babel 64:2, pp. 269–293 | Article
This paper investigates the mediation role of interpreters through modality shifts in Chinese-English diplomatic interpreting. Based on the custom-built corpus of interpreted government press conferences, this article conducts a Systemic Functional Linguistics-informed analysis of modality… read more