Canzhong Wu

List of John Benjamins publications for which Canzhong Wu plays a role.

Articles

Butt, David, Canzhong Wu, Alison Rotha Moore and John Cartmill 2021 The pragmatism of drawing context networks: Social hierarchy and social distance as dimensions of TenorContext in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theoretical developments and directions, Bowcher, Wendy L. and Tom Bartlett (eds.), pp. 260–290 | Article
Linguistics has embraced the functional and contextual turn but, when building tools for systematic contextual description, we have not made as much use as we could of our own functional traditions. Rather, we have largely relied on the metaphors of law and rule, which do not adequately capture… read more
Yu, Hailing and Canzhong Wu 2017 Recreating the image of Chan master Huineng: The role of personal pronounsTarget 29:1, pp. 64–86 | Article
The article is on the recreation of the image of Chan master Huineng in four English translations of the Platform Sutra through the choice of personal pronouns. Adopting SysConc as analytical tool, the study looks at the use of personal pronouns and the image of Huineng recreated in each… read more