Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

List of John Benjamins publications for which Zhuo Jing-Schmidt plays a role.

Journals

Titles

Subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax

Articles

2022. Euphemism. Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 125–145
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This article is concerned with metonymy as a cognitive mechanism underlying our best and worst instincts. In particular, I consider two seemingly opposite processes of metonymy: (1) conceptual bypassing of sensory percepts, which leads to an intuitive leap to abstract insights and judgments and (2)… read more | Article
This study investigates emerging usages in Chinese cyberspace of the numeral classifier méi that violate syntactic and semantic conventions of canonical grammar of modern Chinese. We treat these usages as constructional variants of the canonical classifier construction and show how they afford… read more | Article
Contrastive analysis of Chinese and American maternal affective speech acts revealed significant differences in the quantity of child-directed positive and negative speech acts. There were also important qualitative differences in specific types of maternal affective input. Results are consistent… read more | Article
Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo. 2013. Introduction. Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.), pp. 1–22
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Contrastive analysis of Chinese and American maternal affective speech acts revealed significant differences in the quantity of child-directed positive and negative speech acts. There were also important qualitative differences in specific types of maternal affective input. Results are consistent… read more | Article
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This paper addresses the development of construction-specific modal uses of hao ‘good’ in Mandarin discourse. My focus is the cultural relevancy of the pathway of change: an expression of value judgment gives rise to deontic modality in recurring discourse contexts. Mandarin is contrasted with… read more | Article
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Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo. 2004. The givenness of background: A semantic-pragmatic study of two modern German subordinating conjunctions. Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis, Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller (eds.), pp. 177–203
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