Beijing Normal University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Beijing Normal University*

Shen, Ling 2026 Review of Genetic Literacy in Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A Discursive Approach to Public Engagement with Genetic Science by Zhengpeng Luo (2026)

Pragmatics and Society | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review

Wang, Haoming & Heyou Zhang 2025 Review of 《漢語韻律語法學綱要》 by 馮勝利 & 施春宏 (2023)

Language and Linguistics 27:3 pp. 629–644 | book review | open access

Wang, Mingquan & Ziyi Li 2025 Review of New Horizons by Xia Liang [梁霞], Yonghua Cui [崔永华], Zhengsheng Zhang [张正生], Zhiqiang Li [李智强], Cecilia Chang [张曼荪], Jing Wang [王静] & Shuai Li [郦帅] (2024)

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 60:1 pp. 69–72 | book review

Huang, Xiyue 2025 The passive construction and participant identification in Cuntou Tuhua

Keywords: passive | topicalization | participant identification | Tuhua | sinitic languages

Studies in Language 50:1 pp. 233–257 | article

Bai, Junwei 2025 How to address your kin the Shandong way: A case study on kinship terminologies in the Yi’nan dialect

Keywords: kinship terminology | Yi’nan dialect | terms of reference | terms of address | teknonymy | language endangerment

Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 p. 7 | article

Pan, Chia-Jung & Yang Huang 2025 Proper names: Setting the scene

Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 pp. 1–6 | introduction

Pan, Chia-Jung 2025 Linguistic features of indigenous toponymy: Place names and locative nouns in Tsou

Keywords: toponymy | place name | locative noun | Tsou

Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 pp. 229–252 | article

Pan, Chia-Jung 2025 Review of Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon (2017)

Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:2 pp. 358–365 | book review

Du, Shengwen, Chang Xu & Tiaoyuan Mao 2024 Review of Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface by Mitsuaki Shimojo (2024)

Functions of Language 31:2 pp. 226–231 | book review

Gao, Yang & Deliang Wang 2024 Review of Slowing metaphor down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory by Gerard Steen (2023)

Functions of Language 31:2 pp. 214–219 | book review

Zhang, Ruijia, Chang Xu & Shengbin Du 2024 Review of Pragmatics of internet humour by Francisco Yus (2023)

Functions of Language 31:1 pp. 109–114 | book review

Peng, Bei & David Bartosch 2025 The Jewish German-American musicologist Fritz A. Kuttner and China: Dimensions of self-translation in migration

Keywords: self-translation | music and language | migration | interlingual translation | intersemiotic translation | Chinese premodern music

Target 36:4 pp. 521–550 | article

Medhurst, Jessica 2023 Photographing Chinese childhood: Writing and picturing (1873–1903)

In: Photography in Children’s Literature, Druker, Elina & Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.) [Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 17] pp. 43–66

Chen Xi & Pan Hanting 2022 

Babel 68:1 pp. 169–174 | book review

Pan, Chia-Jung 2023 Numeral classifiers in the Austronesian languages of Taiwan

Keywords: classifier | numeral classifier | verbal action classifier | measure word | Austronesian

Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 pp. 153–180 | article

Li, Wenjie 2021 Review of Translation and Transmigration by Siri Nergaard (2021)

Translation in Society 1:1 pp. 125–129 | book review

Song, Zuoyan 2020 Fang Mei [方梅](2018)《浮现语法：基于汉语口语和书面语的研究》. [Emergent grammar: Studies based on spoken and written Chinese]

Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1 pp. 150–155 | book review

Qiang Wang, Zehang Chen & Xianglin Qi 2020 Improving Chinese students’ English reading through graded readers: Rationale, strategies and effectiveness

Keywords: reading | literacy | primary English | English graded readers | collaborative projects

Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:2 pp. 262–301 | article | open access

Zhang, Heyou & Muji Wuni 2020 On the nature of AA question1 in Yi2 and related problems

Keywords: Nuosu Yi | interrogative motivation | question type | generative mechanism | abstract interrogative morpheme

Asian Languages and Linguistics 1:2 pp. 309–345 | article

Prawatmuang, Woramon & Boping Yuan 2021 Roles of positive and indirect negative evidence in L2 feature reassembly: An empirical study of L2 acquisition of Chinese and Thai collective markers

Keywords: L2 acquisition | feature reassembly | positive evidence | indirect negative evidence | Chinese | Thai | collective markers

Journal of Second Language Studies 3:2 pp. 205–232 | article

Botezatu, Mona Roxana, Judith F. Kroll, Morgan I. Trachsel & Taomei Guo 2020 Second language immersion impacts native language lexical production and comprehension

Keywords: second language immersion | native language performance | word production | spoken word recognition | visual word recognition

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:3 pp. 347–376 | article

Wang, Deliang 2020 P. Chilton & M. Kopytowska (Eds.). Religion, language, and the human mind

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1 pp. 282–287 | book review

Yue, Ying & Xiaotang Cheng 2019 Janet Enever. (2018). Policy and Politics in Global Primary English

Language Teaching for Young Learners 1:2 pp. 207–213 | book review

Zhang, Hongzhong, Juana Du & Rui Wang 2019 Media credibility: The impact of privately-owned websites on state-owned televisions in the context of China

Keywords: media credibility | website | television

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:2 pp. 188–210 | article

Guo, Taomei & Chunyan Kang 2016 Chapter 9. The locus of cross-language activation: ERP evidence from unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals

In: Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism, Schwieter, John W. (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 2] pp. 217–238

Song, Zuoyan 2014 Review of Dictionary of Hong Kong Community Words by Siu-lam Tin [田小琳] (2009)

Chinese Language and Discourse 5:2 pp. 293–295 | book review

Xia, Xiaoyan & Janny Leung 2014 L1-based prototypicality effects in L2 vocabulary learning

Keywords: Chinese | English | polysemous words | second language acquisition | unitary conceptual model

In: Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives, Filipović, Luna & Martin Pütz (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 44] pp. 287–308

Zhu, Xun 2010 Review of Translating China edited by Xuanmin Luo & Yuanjian He (2009)

Chinese Language and Discourse 1:2 pp. 338–339 | book review

Abdi Tabari, Mahmoud, Seyyed Ehsan Golparvar, Xiaofei Lu & Renfen Hu Task complexity and repetition effects on sense-aware lexical sophistication: An extension of Abdi Tabari et al.’s (2025) study on L1 and L2 learners: Task complexity and repetition effects on sense-aware lexical sophistication: Evidence from L1 and L2 writers

Keywords: task complexity | task repetition | lexical sophistication | L1 and L2 writing | task-based language teaching

Journal of Second Language Studies | Online First Publication | article

Wu, Tongjie & Dingfan Lin Motivating a bipartite analysis for Mandarin focus-sensitive particle ye

Keywords: focus-sensitive particle | ye | bipartite analysis | Agree | feature valuation

Language and Linguistics | Online First Publication, 41 pp. | article | open access

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.