Feng Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Feng Liu is involved.
2026 Continuing and reopening: An interactional linguistics study of yinwei in Mandarin conversation Chinese Language and Discourse 17:1, pp. 133–150 | Article
Adopting the framework of interactional linguistics and employing the methodology of conversation analysis, this study investigates the discourse-interactional functions of the causal conjunction yinwei (“because”) in naturally occurring Mandarin conversation. Moving beyond its conventional use… read more
2026 汉语形容词重叠式的感叹语气观: —以“ABB、A不BB、A里AB、A不CD”为例 Chinese Language and Discourse: Online-First Articles | Article
本文以ABB、A不BB、A里AB、A不CD等汉语形容词重叠格式为对象，提出“感叹语气观”以揭示其核心功能。研究发现，此类重叠格式多用作谓语，常带语气词“的”，主要表达说话人的主观情绪态度，尤以消极情感为主。文中指出，中缀“不”“里”等非单纯句法成分，而是具有感叹功能的语气语素。基于普通话及多个南北方言的语料，本文构建“重叠构形×语气功能×方言分布”的三维分析框架，分析重叠格式的语义极性、构式变异及地域分布，并进一步发现ABA类结构中语气词“呔”“吧”等的广泛使用。研究显示，这些格式不仅构成富有情感表达力的语气化构式，也具备“雪克隆”式的构式扩展机制， read more
2025 Review of Pennisi (2025): Gazes, Words, and Silences in Pragmatics Gesture 24:1, pp. 100–105 | Review
Paola Pennisi’s 2025 monograph Gazes, Words, and Silences in Pragmatics reframes human communication as an embodied, multimodal ecology in which gaze, gesture, and silence co-create meaning alongside language. Synthesizing developmental psychology, cross-species comparison, neurocognition and… read more
2022 负面情感立场标记 [Linguistic expressions of negative stances]: 湖南吉首方言句中小品词“呔”的会话分析 [A conversation analysis of utterance-middle pragmatic particle dai in Jishou dialect (Hunan Province, China)] Chinese Language and Discourse 13:2, pp. 226–241 | Article
本研究基于70小时约30万字的自建湖南吉首方言口语语料库，首先从句法位置、句子功能及韵律特征三个维度归纳句中小品词“呔”的核心句法功能及基本语法意义；然后对7个不同会话场景中句中小品词“呔”的分布进行定量统计，并对相关语料展开会话分析。研究发现，句中小品词“呔”是一个标示说话人抱怨和责备情绪的“负面情感立场标志”。受到高频效应和语言使用者心理认知等因素影响，加之与韵律、句法、会话序列位置、会话参与者交际目标及语境等诸多因素产生互动并衍生出反讽、惊奇和同情等情感立场标示功能，但说话人抱怨和责备的情绪仍然不同程度存在。 基于上述分析，本研究尝试从理论层面对小品词本质作出重新认识， read more
2014 Corpus stylistics of drama in drama translation studies: (Im)politeness in two Chinese versions of Miller’s Death of a Salesman Babel 60:4, pp. 425–444 | Article
Drama translation studies used to be the most neglected area in translation studies due to its prescriptive approaches and reductionist illusion of polarization of performability and readability. Corpus stylistics of drama, with the aid of computer technology as well as the understanding of the… read more
1997 Xu Jun: Studies of Criticism of Literary Translation Babel 43:1, pp. 95–96 | Miscellaneous