Nanjing Normal University

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

Titles

Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese

Edited by Dingfang Shu, Hui Zhang & Lifei Zhang

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 67] 2019. | edited volume

From Space to Time: A cognitive analysis of the Cora locative system and its temporal extensions

Eugene H. Casad, Klaus-Uwe Panther & Linda L. Thornburg

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Theoretical linguistics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 39] 2012. xxvii, 263 pp. | monograph

Cao, Jiali & Yuhong Liu 2026 Review of Discourse in the Digital Age: Social Media, Power and Society by Eleonora Esposito & Majid KhosraviNik (2024)

Pragmatics and Society | Online First Publication, 5 pp. | book review

Yang, Kun 2026 Can denial strategies rebuild trust?: Evidence from a hospital’s statement regarding cancer incidents in the laboratory

Keywords: denial | speech act | trustworthiness | discourse | digital context

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 21 pp. | article

Li, Shikun 2025 Review of Technology‑Mediated Language Teaching: From Social Justice to Artificial Intelligence edited by J. Muñoz-Basols, M. Fuertes Gutiérrez & L.Y. Cerezo (2025)

Journal of Second Language Studies 9:1 pp. 171–177 | book review

Gui, Lili & Shaohua Wang 2025 Review of Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics by Christopher Hart (2025)

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 5 pp. | book review

Qiu, Lin & Kun Yang 2025 Review of Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (2024)

Pragmatics and Society | Online First Publication, 4 pp. | book review

Cao, Jiali & Yuhong Liu 2025 Review of Socio-Syntax: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar by Emma Moore (2024)

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

Li, Xinzuo & Zhaoxia Tian 2025 Translating Chinese culture for Chinese readers: Back translation of Moment in Peking

Keywords: back translation | Moment in Peking | cultural translation | Chinese culture | translingual writing | 回译 | 《京华烟云》 | 文化翻译 | 中国文化 | 跨语际写作

InContext 5:2 pp. 160–188 | article | open access

Yu, Jinquan & Chunli Shen 2024 Translation selection and the consecration of Dylan Thomas’s poetry in China: A sociological perspective

Keywords: Bourdieu | translation selection | consecration | translation agents | inter-peripheral translation flows | poetry translation | Dylan Thomas

Target 36:3 pp. 398–420 | article

Wang, Lu, Wenbo Yu, Yiran Peng & Dandan Liang 2024 Examining the role of distributional information and structural types in multiword sequence processing by Chinese preschool children

Keywords: multiword sequences | frequency | contingency | structural types | preschool children

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11:1 pp. 56–93 | article

Yang, Kun 2023 “Trust X, because Y”: A corpus-assisted analysis of trust-related metalanguage labels and trustworthiness cues

Keywords: trust | metalanguage labels | trustworthiness cues | corpus-assisted analysis

Pragmatics and Society 14:5 pp. 753–776 | article

Zhang, Fangfang, Yan Wang & Allyssa McCabe 2023 How do Mandarin-speaking children relate events in personal narratives?

Keywords: Chinese narration | conjunctions | personal narratives | gender differences

Narrative Inquiry 35:1 pp. 180–202 | article

Pan, Yanyan 2022 A multimodal cognitive critical analysis: A comparative study of recruitment advertisements between China and America

Keywords: multimodal cognitive critical analysis | recruitment advertisement | metaphor | metonymy

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:2 pp. 341–360 | article

Yang, Kun & Jing Chen 2022 The son (érzi) is not really a son: Generalization of address terms in Chinese online discourse

Keywords: address term | generalization | referent | function | virtual context

Pragmatics 33:1 pp. 78–98 | article | open access

Zhang, Hui 2019 A neurocognitive approach to Chinese idiom comprehension: An ERP study

Keywords: discourse context | ERP | three-character idioms | idiom variants

In: Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese, Shu, Dingfang, Hui Zhang & Lifei Zhang (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 67] pp. 227–259

Shu, Dingfang, Hui Zhang & Lifei Zhang 2019 Introduction to this volume

In: Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese, Shu, Dingfang, Hui Zhang & Lifei Zhang (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 67] pp. 1–6

Zhang, Hui & Weichao Di 2016 Making intelligence more transparent: A critical cognitive analysis of US strategic intelligence reports on Sino-US relation

Keywords: conceptual blending | metaphor | discourse space theory | Cognitive Linguistics | intelligence analysis | CDA | Sino-US relation

Journal of Language and Politics 15:1 pp. 63–93 | article

Panther, Klaus-Uwe & Linda L. Thornburg 2014 Metonymy and the way we speak

Keywords: manner scales | potentiality for actuality metonymy | coercion | strength of metonymic link

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:1 pp. 168–186 | article

Chen, Xuanda, Heather Goad & Wentao Gu Building L2 phonology with contrast and alternation: Neurobehavioral evidence from Mandarin learners of Russian

Keywords: feature theory | contrast | alternations | Laryngeal Realism | MMN

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism | Online First Publication | article

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