Lixia Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lixia Chen is involved.
Articles
2026 Managing agency and urgency: Student injury incident reports in Chinese teacher-parent communication Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Student injury incidents serve as institutional nexuses where health emergencies intersect with peer conflicts, requiring teachers to negotiate the competing demands of medical immediacy and moral culpability. Drawing on conversation analysis of audio-recorded student incident calls between… read more
From objects and processes to categories: Metonymy in Mandarin classifierization Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study proposes a metonymic account of Mandarin classifierization by reframing it as a profile shift, thereby challenging prevailing metaphoric analyses. An investigation of denominal (tiáo vs. gēn) and deverbal (zhāng vs. bǎ) pairs reveals that both denominal and deverbal classifierization… read more