Xin Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xin Li is involved.
Articles
2027 Chapter 4. The flavorful language: Food metaphors in Chinese culture New Vistas in Research on Metaphor and Metonymy: Their contexts and interaction across discourse types and modalities, Kiełtyka, Robert, Mario Brdar, Marcin Kudła and Goran Milić (eds.), pp. 122–142 | Chapter
This study examines Chinese food metaphors to reveal their cultural values and cognitive patterns. By analyzing a diverse corpus, this study explores how food metaphors function in emotional expression, social bonding, moral value transmission, identity formation, and cultural symbolism.… read more
2025 Review of Hoffmann (2022): Construction Grammar: The Structure of English Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:2, pp. 428–433 | Review