Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
List of John Benjamins publications for which Zhuo Jing-Schmidt plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 1877-7031 | E-ISSN 1877-8798
Titles
Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics
Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] 2013. ix, 317 pp.
Subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Dramatized Discourse: The Mandarin Chinese ba-construction
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 56] 2005. xxii, 337 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax
2022 Euphemism Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 124–144 | Chapter
2021 Metonymy: Mental simplism and our best and worst instincts Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1, pp. 133–151 | Article
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… read more
2020 Little cutie one piece: An innovative human classifier and its social indexicality in Chinese digital culture Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1, pp. 31–54 | 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
2014 Maternal affective input in mother–child interaction: A cross-cultural perspective Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children, Hua, Zhu and Lixian Jin (eds.), pp. 57–89 | 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
2013 Introduction Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.), pp. 1–22 | Article
2012 Maternal affective input in mother–child interaction: A cross-cultural perspective Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children, Hua, Zhu and Lixian Jin (eds.), pp. 57–89 | 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
2011 Review of Lizhen (2007): Modality in Modern Mandarin Chinese Language and Discourse 2:1, pp. 131–135 | Review
2010 From positivity to possibility, propriety and necessity: Semantic change in culture Chinese Language and Discourse 1:1, pp. 66–92 | Article
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
2010 Review of Gilquin (2010): Corpus, cognition and causative constructions Studies in Language 34:4, pp. 922–929 | Review
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 | Article