Beijing Foreign Studies University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Beijing Foreign Studies University*

Titles

Literary Translation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Its Future Prospects. Special issue of Babel 69:4 (2023)

EditorWang Ning & Wang Hongtao

Subjects Translation Studies

[Babel: Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation / Revista Internacional de Traducción, 69:4] 2023. v, 143 pp. | special issue

Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese: Text and Cognition

Yi’an Wu

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 126] 2004. xviii, 236 pp. | monograph

Zhang, Tianwei & Mengli Zhang 2026 Review of Landscape Theories: A Brief Introduction by Olaf Kühne (2019)

Linguistic Landscape 12:3 pp. 324–327 | book review

Pellicer-Sánchez, Ana, Andi Wang & Kathy Conklin 2026 Eye-tracking

In: Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Kessler, Matt (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] pp. 265–288

White, Lydia, Heather Goad, Guilherme D. Garcia, Natália Brambatti Guzzo, Liz Smeets & Jiajia Su 2026 Pronoun interpretation in L1 and L2 English: When native speaker performance is unexpected

Keywords: prosody | stress | pronoun interpretation | L2 English

In: New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania & Silvina Montrul (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 71] pp. 33–50

Yang, Yuhang & Jiajin Xu 2026 Metaphorical polysemy and cognitive mechanism of tactile terms: Behavioral profiling of the modern Chinese lexeme yìng ‘hard’

Keywords: metaphorical polysemy | behavioral profile | tactile term

Review of Cognitive Linguistics | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article

Wang, Lulu, Sanjun Sun, Xing Wang, Jinghang Gu & Kanglong Liu 2026 Workflow matters: Comparing human translators and multi-agent LLMs in literary translation

Keywords: large language models (LLMs) | multi-agent systems | literary translation | translation quality | translation technology

Target 38:3 pp. 422–453 | article | open access

Huang, Ding 2025 Review of English corpus linguistics: An introduction by C. F. Meyer (2023)

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:1 pp. 106–111 | book review

Huang, Ding, Jiajin Xu, Yingming Song & Ruchen Yu 2025 Assessing the potential of using large language models for pragmatic annotation of historical texts: A case of epistemic stance in Early Modern English

Keywords: Early Modern English | epistemic stance | historical pragmatics | large language models | pragmatic annotation

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3 pp. 406–437 | article

Liu, Meng, Yuan Sang, Phil Hiver & Ali H. Al-Hoorie 2025 The Ulysses pact: An emic perspective on registered reports in applied linguistics

Keywords: registered reports | open science | peer review | replication research

Journal of Second Language Studies 8:2 pp. 192–218 | article

Martín, Ricardo Muñoz, Sanjun Sun, Zhiqiang Du & Sara Puerini 2025 Keylogging

In: Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies, Rojo López, Ana María & Ricardo Muñoz Martín (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 10] pp. 157–182

Wang, Lihan & Weiwei Wang 2025 An empirical study on GenAI use in speech difficulty evaluation: Toward a human-centered application of AI in interpreting education

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) | interpreting education | speech difficulty evaluation | Speech Difficulty Index (SDI) | interpreting | 生成式人工智能 | 口译教育 | 口译材料难度评价 | 材料难度指数（SDI） | 口 译

InContext 5:1 pp. 116–145 | article | open access

Liu, Yajie & Tianwei Zhang 2024 Review of Linguistic Landscapes in Language and Teacher Education: Multilingual Teaching and Learning Inside and Beyond the Classroom edited by Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer (2023)

Linguistic Landscape 11:4 pp. 440–443 | book review

Du, Shengwen, Chang Xu & Tiaoyuan Mao 2024 Review of Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface by Mitsuaki Shimojo (2024)

Functions of Language 31:2 pp. 226–231 | book review

Zhang, Ruijia, Chang Xu & Shengbin Du 2024 Review of Pragmatics of internet humour by Francisco Yus (2023)

Functions of Language 31:1 pp. 109–114 | book review

White, Lydia, Heather Goad, Guilherme Duarte Garcia, Natália Brambatti Guzzo, Liz Smeets & Jiajia Su 2024 Pronoun interpretation in Italian: Exploring the effects of prosody

Keywords: prosody | stress | pronoun | Italian

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:3 pp. 311–341 | article

Yu, Danni, Luyang Li, Hang Su & Matteo Fuoli 2024 Assessing the potential of LLM-assisted annotation for corpus-based pragmatics and discourse analysis: The case of apology

Keywords: corpus pragmatics | large language models | pragma-discursive corpus annotation | local grammar | ChatGPT

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:4 pp. 534–561 | article

He, Jianyou & Dengshan Xia 2024 China’s real estate agents’ persuasion realizations on WeChat Moments

Keywords: persuasion strategy | real estate agents | WeChat Moments | cyberspace | rhetoric

Pragmatics 35:4 pp. 529–554 | article

Sun, Sanjun, Lulu Wang & Qiru Zhang 2025 Examining reliability in translation quality assessment: An empirical study of paper- and computer-based scoring

Keywords: translation assessment | paper-based scoring | computer-based scoring | rater reliability

Translation and Interpreting Studies 19:3 pp. 405–431 | article

Shan, Weijia & Zhengjun Lin 2024 The analysis of orientational metaphor of ‘Zhōng’ (中) in Chinese traditional classic The Doctrine of the Mean

Keywords: orientational metaphor | zhōng (中 | ‘middle’) | role schema | culture values

International Journal of Language and Culture 11:2 pp. 153–179 | article

Ping, Yuan & Kefei Wang 2024 Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing: A critical narrative analysis of English and Chinese narratives on the 2014 Hong Kong protests

Keywords: critical narrative analysis | critical discourse analysis | news narrative | Hong Kong protests | Reference News | ideological shift

Journal of Language and Politics 24:3 pp. 365–389 | article

Pang, Shuangzi & Kefei Wang 2024 What transcends “translation universals” across time?: A multi-dimensional diachronic analysis of the changes in translated and original Chinese register features (1919–2019)

Keywords: translation universal | multi-dimension | register | leveling out | risk-aversion | activeness | universaux de la traduction | multidimension | registre | nivellement | aversion au risque | activité

Babel 71:4 pp. 449–477 | article

Xiang Jun 2023 Review of Transcultural Poetics: Chinese Literature in English Translation edited by Yifeng Sun & Dechao Li (2023)

Babel 69:3 pp. 433–435 | book review

Peng, Zhibin & Muhammad Afzaal 2023 Review of Integrating gestures: The dimension of multimodality in Cognitive Grammar by Silva H. Ladewig (2020)

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:1 pp. 317–322 | book review

Zhou, Shenyan & Yuanyuan Hu 2023 Review of Migrant Workers’ Narratives of Return: Alienation and Identity Transformations by Hans J. Ladegaard (2023)

Narrative Inquiry 35:2 pp. 366–369 | book review

Pu, Shi 2023 Curriculum innovation
through concept borrowing: The case of “learner autonomy” in English language education in Chinese universities (1978–2007)

In: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical perspectives, Smith, Richard & Tim Giesler (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 20] pp. 180–198

Sun, Juan, Zhi Lu, Isabel Lacruz, Lijun Ma, Lin Fan, Xiuhua Huang & Bo Zhou 2023 An eye-tracking study of productivity and effort in Chinese-to-English translation and post-editing

Keywords: cognitive effort | post-editing | human translation | eye-tracking | key-logging | Chinese-to-English

In: Translation in Transition: Human and machine intelligence, Lacruz, Isabel (ed.) [American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, XX] pp. 57–82

Shan, Weijia & Zhengjun Lin 2023 Collostructional analysis on Chinese modal verb construction neng bu neng + VP

Keywords: neng bu neng + VP | collostructional analysis | prototypical meaning | extensional meaning

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:2 pp. 351–376 | article

Wang Hongtao 2023 Defending the last bastion: A sociological approach to the challenged literary translation

Keywords: translator’s habitus | actor-network | human signification | machine simulation | positive ethics | Habitus du traducteur | réseau d’acteurs | signification humaine | simulation par la machine | éthique positive

Babel 69:4 pp. 465–482 | article

Zhang, Dong & Jiajin Xu 2023 Dative alternation in Chinese: A mixed-effects logistic regression analysis

Keywords: dative alternation in Chinese | double object construction | prepositional dative construction | mixed-effects logistic regression model

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 28:4 pp. 559–585 | article

Zhang, Cun & Zhengjun Lin 2023 Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media

Keywords: Critical Metaphor Analysis | COVID-19 pandemic | metonymy | Chinese national news media

Pragmatics and Society 14:1 p. 90 | article

Peng, Zhibin & Muhammad Afzaal 2023 Review of Repetitions in Gesture: A Cognitive-Linguistic and Usage-Based Perspective by Jana Bressem (2021)

Gesture 21:2/3 pp. 374–381 | book review

Zhuo, Li 2022 Review of Language, Creativity and Humour Online by Camilla Vásquez (2019)

Internet Pragmatics 5:2 pp. 321–325 | book review

Li, Yi & Dan Huang 2022 Review of Discourses of the Arab revolutions in media and politics by Ullmann Stefanie (2021)

Journal of Language and Politics 22:1 pp. 133–136 | book review

Long, Haiping & Chuanlin Deng 2022 Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination?: Evidence from Chinese shuō ‘say’

Keywords: ‘say’ verb | shuō | complementizer | quotative particle

Functions of Language 30:2 pp. 137–158 | article

Jiang Jing & Wang Kefei 2022 Understanding the mediation of dialectal value: A case study of Chinese translations of Pygmalion

Keywords: dialectal value | dialect translation | language ideology | social structure | translator’s positioning | valeur dialectale | traduction de dialectes | idéologie linguistique | structure sociale | positionnement du traducteur

Babel 68:3 pp. 394–415 | article

Zhang, Leticia-Tian & Boris Vazquez-Calvo 2022 “¿Triste estás? I don’t know nan molla”: Multilingual pop song fandubs by @miree_music

Keywords: fandub | dubbing | fan translation | informal language learning | translanguaging | identity

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 173:2 pp. 197–227 | article | open access

Liu, Yubo & Wei Zhang 2022 Exploring the predictive validity of an interpreting aptitude test battery: An approximate replication

Keywords: aptitude testing | SynCloze | negative affectivity | learning styles

Interpreting 24:2 pp. 279–308 | article

Su, Jiajia 2022 L2 acquisition of the Chinese plural marker -men by English and Korean speakers

Keywords: feature reassembly | L2 acquisition of plural marking | L1 transfer | Chinese plural marker -men

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:2 pp. 255–284 | article

Wang, Haiyan, Xinmiao Liu & Xin Li 2021 A cartographic approach to sentence production in aphasia: Evidence from Chinese

Keywords: cartographic approach | agrammatic aphasia | Chinese

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:1 p. 73 | article

Tan, Zaixi 2021 A cross-boundary approach to the generative nature of translation

Keywords: TS research | cross-boundary approach | translational generativity | Chinese philosophic-cultural elements | TS research | approche transfrontalière | générativité de traduction | éléments philosophiques et culturels chinois

Babel 67:2 pp. 206–221 | article

Li, Jialei 2021 An aggregate approach to diachronic variation in modern Chinese writings and translations

Keywords: modern Chinese | diachronic variation | corpus-based study | hierarchical agglomerative clustering | multidimensional scaling

Asian Languages and Linguistics 2:1 pp. 110–133 | article

Xu, Xiuling 2020 

Functions of Language 27:3 pp. 373–380 | book review

Yang, Luxin 2020 Languaging: Chinese students rewrite a narrative in English

Keywords: story rewriting task | EFL learner | languaging | models

In: Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching: A collection of empirical studies, Suzuki, Wataru & Neomy Storch (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 55] pp. 129–148

Ren Wen, Guo Cong & Huang Juan 2020 A review of 40 years of interpreting research in China (1978–2018)

Keywords: 40 years of interpreting research | China | overall | period-specific characteristics | 40 ans de recherche en interprétation | Chine | caractéristiques générales | caractéristiques propres à une période

Babel 66:1 pp. 1–28 | article

Pang, Shuangzi & Kefei Wang 2020 Language contact through translation: The influence of explicitness in English–Chinese translation on language change in vernacular Chinese

Keywords: explicitation | explicitness | language change | language contact | English–Chinese translation | adversative conjunctions

Target 32:3 pp. 420–455 | article

Zhong Weihe, Zhao Tianyuan & Xu Mianjun 2020 Professional interpreting translation education in the Chinese mainland: History, achievements, challenges and future prospects

Keywords: reform and opening up | professional interpreting and translation education | achievements | challenges | countermeasures | réforme et ouverture | enseignement de l’interprétation et de la traduction professionnelles | réalisations | défis | contre-mesures

Babel 66:6 pp. 883–901 | article

Moreno García, Luis Damián 2020 Researching the motivation of Spanish to Chinese fansubbers: A case study on collaborative translation in China

Keywords: volunteer translation | fansubbing | China | collaborative translation | translator motivation

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 3:2 pp. 165–188 | article

Zhang Wei & Yu Dewei 2019 A duet and/or a concerto?: Simultaneous interpreters’ working memory and interpreting expertise

Keywords: working memory | interpreting expertise | simultaneous interpreting | roles and impacts | mémoire de travail | expertise en interprétation | interprétation simultanée | rôles et impacts

Babel 65:4 pp. 519–537 | article

Sun, Sanjun & Kairong Xiao 2019 Chinese scholarship in Cognitive Translation Studies: A survey of researchers

Keywords: translation process | interpreting process | cognitive approaches | translation process research

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 2:1 pp. 125–146 | article

Zhao, Yanfei & Huijuan Ma 2019 Mapping translation studies in China based on Holmes/Toury Map

Keywords: Translation Studies in China | Holmes/Toury map | research features | changing trends | Études de Traduction en Chine | carte Holmes/Toury | caractéristiques de recherche | tendances d’évolution

FORUM 17:1 p. 99 | article

Tan Zaixi 2019 The fuzzy interface between censorship and self-censorship in translation

Keywords: censorship | self-censorship | fuzzy interface | cultural politics | Chinese context

Translation and Interpreting Studies 14:1 pp. 39–60 | article

Bin, Yao 2019 The origins and early developments of the UN Training Program for Interpreters and Translators in Beijing

Keywords: UN Training Program for Interpreters and Translators | interpreter training in China | Beijing Foreign Studies University | syllabus for interpreter training | programme de formation des interprètes et traducteurs de l’ONU | formation des interprètes en Chine | Université des Études étrangères de Beijing (BFSU) | syllabus de formation d’interprètes

Babel 65:3 pp. 445–464 | article

Wang, Wenbin 2019 The conceptual spatialization of actions or activities in Chinese: The Adjective + Verb construction

Keywords: cognitive perspective | grammatical pattern | word class shift

In: Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese, Shu, Dingfang, Hui Zhang & Lifei Zhang (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 67] pp. 157–182

Lu Xinchao 2019 Propositional information loss in English-to-Chinese simultaneous conference interpreting: A corpus-based study

Keywords: English-to-Chinese simultaneous interpreting | corpus | propositional information loss | cognitive resource deficiency | cognitive capability deficiency | interprétation simultanée de l’anglais en chinois | corpus | perte d’informations propositionnelles | manque de ressources cognitives | manque de capacités cognitives

Babel 64:5/6 pp. 792–818 | article

He, Wei & Ruby Rong Wei 2017 Jonathan J. Webster (ed.) The Bloomsbury Companion to M.A.K. Halliday

Functions of Language 24:2 pp. 234–243 | book review

Shao, Wei 2017 La créativité issue de l’intégration conceptuelle dans le cas de la traduction transitoire vers la langue acquise

Keywords: approche cognitive | pertinence | intégration conceptuelle | structure émergente | traduction vers la langue B | cognitive approach | relevance | conceptual blending | emergent structure | translation into B language

FORUM 15:1 pp. 106–122 | article

Yao Bin 2018 Setton & Dawrant, 2016. Conference Interpreting: A Complete Course and Setton & Dawrant, 2016. Conference Interpreting: A Trainer’s Guide

Babel 63:6 pp. 907–914 | book review

Yang, Wenxing & Ying Sun 2017 English and Mandarin speakers’ mental representations of time: Some new evidence about the language-thought relationship

Keywords: time | spatiotemporal metaphor | thought | language | space | writing direction

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:2 pp. 385–415 | article

Gao, Yihong, Xiaoqi Ma & Xiaoying Wang 2016 Global and national identity construction in ELF: A longitudinal case study on four Chinese students

Keywords: global identity | national identity | community of practice | ELF | imagined community

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:2 pp. 260–279 | article

Lan, Chun & Danyun Zuo 2016 Pictorial-verbal metaphors in Chinese editorial cartoons on food safety

Keywords: multimodal metaphor theory | Conceptual Metaphor Theory | pictorial-verbal metaphor | food safety | editorial cartoon

Metaphor and the Social World 6:1 pp. 20–51 | article

Xu, Jiajin 2016 Corpus-based Chinese studies: A historical review from the 1920s to the present

Keywords: corpus linguistics | Chinese | discourse-pragmatics | classical/historical Chinese studies | lexical frequency studies | syntactic/grammatical studies | interlanguage studies

Chinese Language and Discourse 6:2 pp. 218–244 | article | open access

Sun, Sanjun & Gregory M. Shreve 2014 Measuring translation difficulty: An empirical study

Keywords: translation | difficulty | empirical workload | cognitive | readability | competence | measurement | method

Target 26:1 p. 98 | article

Yang, Huiling 2014 The Making of the First Chinese-English Dictionary: Robert Morrison’s Dictionary of the Chinese Language in Three Parts (1815–1823)

Historiographia Linguistica 41:2/3 pp. 299–322 | article

Shao Wei & Yang Peiyan 2013 Une quantification expérimentale des messages restitués dans la courbe d’apprentissage de l’interprétation

Keywords: Quantification | quality | formative evaluation | information unit | learning curve | topic preparation

FORUM 11:1 pp. 223–255 | article

Lan, Chun 2012 Review of Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese by Yuling Pan & Dániel Z. Kádár (2011)

Chinese Language and Discourse 3:2 pp. 273–277 | book review

Lan, Chun 2013 A cognitive perspective on the metaphors in the Buddhist sutra “Bao Ji Jing”

Keywords: conceptual blending | Buddhist sutra | conceptual metaphor | “Bao Ji Jing”

Metaphor and the Social World 2:2 pp. 154–179 | article

Yan, Yi & Anna Siewierska 2011 Referential impersonal constructions in Mandarin

In: Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. & Anna Siewierska (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 124] pp. 547–580

Lan Chun, & Zhao Yun 2010 Apology strategies between social unequals in The Dream of the Red Chamber

Keywords: power relationship | apology | social status | apology strategy

Chinese Language and Discourse 1:2 pp. 264–292 | article

Lidi, Wang 2008 The spread of English in China and its implications

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 31:3 pp. 32.1–32.4 | other | open access

Chen, Guohua 2003 The grammaticalization of concessive markers in Early Modern English

In: Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach & Dieter Stein (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] p. 85

Ping, Yuan & Saihong Li The discursive construction of China in US institutional translation (1979–2025): A corpus-based discourse-historical approach

Keywords: discourse-historical approach | curation | critical discourse analysis | institutional translation | Interpret: China | corpus analysis | approche historico-discursive | curation | analyse critique du discours | traduction institutionnelle | Interpret: China | analyse de corpus

Babel | Online First Publication | article | open access

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