Harbin Engineering University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Harbin Engineering University*

Mao, Yansheng & Yue Zhao 2025 Empathy and vocatives in Chinese: From the perspective of ba pragmatics

Keywords: empathy | Chinese vocatives | ba pragmatics

In: Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”, Fujii, Yoko, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft & Kishiko Ueno (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 24] pp. 300–324 | open access

Mao, Yansheng & Shuang Wei 2025 A tale of tradition and modernization: The conceived self-identities by TCM doctors in the Digital Health Era

Keywords: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) doctors | self-identities | Digital Health Technologies (DHT) | digitalization

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 24 pp. | article

Wang, Zepeng, Haoming Li, Yansheng Mao & Li Zheng 2025 Tailoring language to social hierarchies: A pragmatic study on the salutation in Zeng Guofan’s Family Letters

Keywords: salutation | politeness | social hierarchy | family letters | ancient Chinese | historical pragmatics

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 25 pp. | article

Jiang, Shan & Huiping Zhang 2025 The acquisition of locative inversion at the syntax-pragmatics interface by Chinese learners of English

Keywords: Interface Hypothesis | locative inversion | non-native performance | syntax-pragmatics interface | Chinese learners of English

Pragmatics 36:3 pp. 396–423 | article | open access

Dong, Hongjie, Dewei Che & Adams Bodomo 2025 Traditional beliefs as target and weapon: A case study of family planning banners in China

Keywords: China | family planning policy | confucian values | demographic transition | social consensus

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 22 pp. | article

Zhao, Xin, Yansheng Mao & Yihang Wang 2024 I am a doctor in your shoes: The empathic strategies employed by Chinese doctors during text-based online medical consultations

Keywords: empathy | Chinese doctor-patient communication | online medical consultation

Pragmatics and Society 16:3 pp. 380–400 | article

Jiang, Qingsheng, Yansheng Mao & Yihang Wang 2024 “It’s nothing serious, take it easy”: Chinese doctors’ emotion-regulating discourses on the online medical consultation websites

Keywords: online medical consultation (OMC) | emotion regulation | emotion attribution

Pragmatics 35:4 pp. 555–578 | article

Wang, Zepeng, Yansheng Mao, Dan Xin, Haoming Li & Zhe Liang 2023 The devil lies in prosody: Prosodic veins of the Chinese discourse marker Haole 好了 at the left and right periphery

Keywords: discourse marker | left periphery | right periphery | prosody | pragmatic function | 语用标记 | 左缘 | 右缘 | 韵律 | 语用功能

Chinese Language and Discourse 15:1 pp. 1–26 | article

Zhao, Xin & Yansheng Mao 2023 If I testify about others, my testimony is valid: A study of other-justified discourses in Chinese online medical crowdfunding

Keywords: trustworthiness discourse | online medical crowdfunding discourse | other-justified discourse | Chinese

Pragmatics 33:4 pp. 641–662 | article | open access

Jiang, Qingsheng, Yansheng Mao & Zhou-min Yuan 2023 Where there is panic, the media are close by: A pragmatic study of the alleviation of COVID-19 panic by the Chinese state media

Keywords: COVID-19 | panic alleviation | state media | discourse strategies

Pragmatics and Society 14:4 pp. 611–637 | article

Mao, Yansheng, Shuang Wei & Xiaojiang Wang 2023 Patients resist, doctors manage: The management of patient resistance by doctors in Chinese Online Medical Consultation

Keywords: patient resistance | doctor management | Chinese OMC

Pragmatics and Society 15:4 pp. 632–654 | article

Mao, Yansheng & Xin Zhao 2022 Trust me, trust my words: Trustworthiness construction in Chinese online medical crowd-funding discourses

Keywords: trustworthiness construction | Chinese medical crowd funding | online discourse | online help seeking | discourse analysis

Pragmatics and Society 13:4 pp. 703–724 | article

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