Papers by Weiwei Zhang
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《外语与 外语教学》[Foreign Languages and Their Teaching], 2020
以往对于汉语分析型致使构式的研究较少关注其在语言变体维度上的变异。本研究在认知社会语言学的框架下，基于跨变体语料库，使用多分类逻辑斯蒂回归考察了影响致使词"使"、"令"、"让"选择的句法、语义、... more 以往对于汉语分析型致使构式的研究较少关注其在语言变体维度上的变异。本研究在认知社会语言学的框架下，基于跨变体语料库，使用多分类逻辑斯蒂回归考察了影响致使词"使"、"令"、"让"选择的句法、语义、语言变体等因素。研究发现: 1) "令"构式用于关系从句的概率显著高于其他小句类型，其结果谓词倾向于使用形容词，被使者常充当感事。2) 相较于"令"，"使"和"让"都更偏好及物动词作为结果谓词、排斥充当感事的被使者。3) 当被使者为定指或充当受事时"使"的概率显著提高; 而"让"更倾向于充当施事的被使者，当被使者为客体时"让"的概率显著降低。4) "语言变体"与"小句类型"之间存在显著的交互效应: 中国大陆地区汉语中"使"和"让"在不同小句类型中的概率差异更大; 中国台湾地区汉语和新加坡汉语中"小句类型"对"使"和"让"概率的影响较小，且"让"的概率总是高于"使"; 而三个变体在"令"的用法上未表现出显著差异。本文展示了认知社会语言学将语言内部和外部因素整合在同一框架内进行考察的优势，并在更多数据和参项的基础上丰富了汉语分析型致使构式与汉语变体变异的研究。[Lectal variation in Chinese analytic causative constructions has not yet been investigated in detail. In the framework of Cognitive Sociolinguistics, this paper employs a multinomial logistic regression model to examine the syntactic, semantic and lectal factors that may affect the alternation of Chinese analytic causative constructions with shi, rang and ling based on regiolectally balanced corpora. Our analyses show that: 1) the causee of ling-constructions tends to be an experiencer, followed by adjectives, and ling-constructions are significantly more likely to appear in a relative clause. 2) Compared with ling, both shi and rang are more favored when the effected predicate is a transitive verb and more disfavored than ling when the causee is an experiencer. 3) The probability of shi significantly increases when the causee is definite or serves as a patient, whereas rang favors the causee whose semantic role is an agent; The probability of rang significantly decreases when the causee is a theme. 4) There is a significant interaction between Variety and ClauseType, i. e. the influence of ClauseType is strongest in Mainland Chinese, with shi and rang preferring different clause types, whereas in Taiwan Chinese and Singapore Chinese, rang is always favored. The usage of ling shows no significant cross-variety variation. This study not only shows the benefit of Cognitive Sociolinguistics for synthetically analyzing language internal and external factors, but also contributes to the research on Chinese analytic causative constructions and variation in Chinese varieties by analyzing large-scale data and incorporating considerable predictors.]
外语教学, 2019
近年来，概念隐喻、转喻研究呈现出明显的跨学科趋势，取得了丰硕的成果。认知语言学领域中隐喻、转 喻研究的热点主要涉及隐喻、转喻多维度上的变异，隐喻、转喻的标注和识别，隐喻、转喻理解的在线加工，以 ... more 近年来，概念隐喻、转喻研究呈现出明显的跨学科趋势，取得了丰硕的成果。认知语言学领域中隐喻、转 喻研究的热点主要涉及隐喻、转喻多维度上的变异，隐喻、转喻的标注和识别，隐喻、转喻理解的在线加工，以 及多模态隐喻、转喻等。在方法论上，大量研究利用语料库语言学、心理语言学、认知神经科学等的技术手段， 为概念隐喻、转喻理论提供了实证证据。 关键词：隐喻；转喻；热点问题；方法论 Advances in conceptual metaphor and metonymy research Abstract: In recent years, conceptual metaphor and metonymy research has embraced an inter-disciplinary perspective and yielded fruitful scientific results. Topics of general interest in the field of Cognitive Linguistics include variation in metaphor/metonymy, metaphor/metonymy detection, metaphor/metonymy processing, and multimodal metaphor/metonymy. Methodologically, metaphor and metonymy research benefits greatly from techniques in corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics and neuroscience.
本研究采用多重对应分析方法,从基于样例的概念空间考察汉语中“让”和“给”被动用法的交替现象。研究发现:1)影响二者选择使用的主要因素为结构上的长短被动和语体因素;2)“让”和“给”的被动原型截然... more 本研究采用多重对应分析方法,从基于样例的概念空间考察汉语中“让”和“给”被动用法的交替现象。研究发现:1)影响二者选择使用的主要因素为结构上的长短被动和语体因素;2)“让”和“给”的被动原型截然不同:“让”的原型为书面语语体中NP2为有生名词的被动用法,“给”的原型为口语语体中的短被动用法;3)二者被动范畴的概念空间有重合,说明二者范畴的边界是模糊的。在个案分析之上,本研究进一步讨论了多重对应分析方法在语言的近义形式、多功能形式分析中的适用性,同时也对该方法的局限性进行了说明。
In line with the quantitative turn in Cognitive Linguistics, this paper introduces a series of ad... more In line with the quantitative turn in Cognitive Linguistics, this paper introduces a series of advanced quantitative methods with ample examples. It illustrates multivariate methods of exploratory analysis (e.g. cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling), confirmatory analysis (e.g. logistic regression model, mixed effects regression model) and machine learning model (e.g. random forest, naïve discriminative learning). Moreover, this paper briefly introduces statistical packages of those methods in the statistical environment R.
This paper discusses the motivation behind the methodological turn, i.e. the “empirical-quantitat... more This paper discusses the motivation behind the methodological turn, i.e. the “empirical-quantitative-multivariate statistical” tendency, in current Cognitive Linguistics research. The paper advocates that the methodological turn results from the nature of Cognitive Linguistic research and we should follow an “empirical cycle” in order to describe language phenomena more objectively and scientifically. Then, it introduces how empirical Cognitive Linguistic research should be conducted following the “empirical cycle” in which several rounds of formulation of hypotheses, data gathering, and data analysis follow each other.
This paper examines the (non)metonymic usage of capital names in news articles
from Mainland Chin... more This paper examines the (non)metonymic usage of capital names in news articles
from Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese and shows that this phenomenon
is actually more complex than might have been expected. We annotated capital
names extracted from a self-built news corpus with insights from previous studies
on place name metonymies in Cognitive Linguistics and identified factors
that would influence their (non)metonymic usage. To quantitatively explore
the data, logistic regression analysis was employed. The statistical results reveal
that the variation in the (non)metonymic capital names is a result of an intricate
interplay of a number of conceptual, lectal and discursive factors: (1) more
metonymic capital names are found in subject than non-subject position and in
political than non-political news topics; types of capital may influence their metonymic
usage; (2) differences between Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese
cannot be ignored, especially for the interpretation of a specific metonymy, i.e.
CAPITAL FOR GOVERNMENT; (3) the (non)metonymic usage of a capital name is
also determined by its sequencing and location in discourse. We hope this study
may shed some light on the usage-based trend of current Cognitive Linguistics,
i.e. investigating metonymy in authentic linguistic data by a range of empirical
methodologies.
This paper introduces an innovative method to aid the study of conceptual onomasiological researc... more This paper introduces an innovative method to aid the study of conceptual onomasiological research, with a specific emphasis on diachronic variation in the metonymic patterns with which a target concept is expressed. We illustrate how the method is applied to explore and visualize such diachronic changes by means of a case study on the metonymic patterns for WOMAN in the history of Chinese. Visualization is done with the help of a Multidimensional Scaling solution based on the profile-based distance calculation (Geeraerts, Grondelaers, and Speelman 1999; Speelman, Grondelaers, and Geeraerts 2003) and by drawing diachronic trajectories in a set of MDS maps, corresponding to different metonymic targets. This method proves to be effective and feasible in detecting changes in the distribution of metonymic patterns in authentic historical corpus data. On the basis of this method, we can show that different targets exhibit different degrees of diachronic variation in their metonymic patterns. We find diachronically more stable targets (e.g. IMPERIAL WOMAN), targets with a dominant trend in diachronic variation (e.g. A WOMAN), and targets with highly fluctuating historical variation (e.g. BEAUTIFUL WOMAN). Importantly, we can identify the cultural and social changes that may lie behind some of these changes. Examining the results uncovered by the method offers us a better understanding of the dynamicity of metonymic conceptualizations.
This paper investigates metonymies for PERSON in Chinese and English in the framework of Cognitiv... more This paper investigates metonymies for PERSON in Chinese and English in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics with an emphasis on cross-linguistic variation. Our central goal is to highlight the important role of cultural elements on the use of metonymy. Three main types of cross-linguistic variation were found at different degrees of granularities of metonymies: variation in metonymic patterns for the general target category PERSON, variation in metonymic patterns for a specific kind of person, and variation in metonymic sources in a specific pattern. The variation was examined against its cultural background, and we conclude that some cross-linguistic differences are to a large extent rooted in culturally relevant factors. The findings suggest that although bodily experience as the general cognitive basis for metonymic pattern/source selection implies the universality of metonymies across different languages, cultural elements contribute to the language-specific preferences for metonymies of a given target.
Books by Weiwei Zhang
The monograph presents new findings and perspectives in the study of variation in metonymy, both ... more The monograph presents new findings and perspectives in the study of variation in metonymy, both theoretical and methodological. Theoretically, it sheds light on metonymy from an onomasiological perspective, which helps to discover the different conceptual or lexical "pathways" through which a concept or a group of concepts has been designated by going back to the source concepts. In addition, it broadens the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics research on metonymy by looking into how metonymic conceptualization and usage may vary along various dimensions. Three case studies explore significant variation in metonymy across different languages, time periods, genres and social lects. Methodologically, the monograph responds to the call in Cognitive Linguistics to adopt usage-based empirical methodologies. The case studies show that quantification and statistical techniques constitute essential parts of an empirical analysis based on corpus data. The empirical findings demonstrate the essential need to extend research on metonymy in a variationist Cognitive Linguistics direction by studying metonymy’s cultural, historical and social-lectal variation.
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The 10 th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE-10, 2019
The 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 2019
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from Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese and shows that this phenomenon
is actually more complex than might have been expected. We annotated capital
names extracted from a self-built news corpus with insights from previous studies
on place name metonymies in Cognitive Linguistics and identified factors
that would influence their (non)metonymic usage. To quantitatively explore
the data, logistic regression analysis was employed. The statistical results reveal
that the variation in the (non)metonymic capital names is a result of an intricate
interplay of a number of conceptual, lectal and discursive factors: (1) more
metonymic capital names are found in subject than non-subject position and in
political than non-political news topics; types of capital may influence their metonymic
usage; (2) differences between Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese
cannot be ignored, especially for the interpretation of a specific metonymy, i.e.
CAPITAL FOR GOVERNMENT; (3) the (non)metonymic usage of a capital name is
also determined by its sequencing and location in discourse. We hope this study
may shed some light on the usage-based trend of current Cognitive Linguistics,
i.e. investigating metonymy in authentic linguistic data by a range of empirical
methodologies.
Books by Weiwei Zhang
Book Reviews by Weiwei Zhang
Conference Presentations by Weiwei Zhang
from Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese and shows that this phenomenon
is actually more complex than might have been expected. We annotated capital
names extracted from a self-built news corpus with insights from previous studies
on place name metonymies in Cognitive Linguistics and identified factors
that would influence their (non)metonymic usage. To quantitatively explore
the data, logistic regression analysis was employed. The statistical results reveal
that the variation in the (non)metonymic capital names is a result of an intricate
interplay of a number of conceptual, lectal and discursive factors: (1) more
metonymic capital names are found in subject than non-subject position and in
political than non-political news topics; types of capital may influence their metonymic
usage; (2) differences between Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese
cannot be ignored, especially for the interpretation of a specific metonymy, i.e.
CAPITAL FOR GOVERNMENT; (3) the (non)metonymic usage of a capital name is
also determined by its sequencing and location in discourse. We hope this study
may shed some light on the usage-based trend of current Cognitive Linguistics,
i.e. investigating metonymy in authentic linguistic data by a range of empirical
methodologies.