Jiang Yajun
Biographic Data
| ID | 1639641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiang Yajun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiang |
| FAMILY NAME | Yajun |
| SIGNATURE | YAJUN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xi'an International Studies University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6164-119X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Are the titles of doctoral dissertations and research articles different? Observations from four STEM disciplines
China’s metaphorically “othered” image in The New York Times (1949-2020)
This study investigates, within the framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis, how The New York Times ( NYT) has been metaphorically formulating China as an “other” from 1949 to 2020. Metaphors were identified with reference to Pragglejaz Group’s (2007) Metaphor Identification Procedure. WAR and GAME were detected as dominant concepts, and LIQUID, DISEASE, ANIMAL, MACHINE, and OBSTACLE secondary imagery. It is found that the newspaper’s journalisti…
Uninterrupted People (Bu Jian Duan De Ren) by Shuang Xuetao (review)
More diversity, more complexity, but more flexibility
Ren Jian Qing Xing (The world awake) by Liang Xiaosheng
Reviewed by: Ren Jian Qing Xing (The world awake) by Liang Xiaosheng Jiang Yajun Liang Xiaosheng Ren Jian Qing Xing (The world awake) Beijing. Beijing United. 2021. 313 pages. AFTER WINNING THE Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2019, Liang Xiaosheng gathered some of his life stories for his latest book, Ren Jian Qing Xing (The world awake), to convey his feelings about life: stay awake, stay angry, stay true. The book can be divided into two parts. In …
Translated English and universals of translation
This paper investigates the notion of ‘translated English’, in contrast to ‘non-translated English’. Its focal point is that translated English texts differ from comparable non-translated texts in English, the target language (TL), in the sense that they have specific properties that cannot be found in the latter. Translated English, therefore, is a distinct variety of English. What makes it distinct is that, on the one hand, translated English t…
World Englishes and contrastive rhetoric
WE ARGUE here that a ‘paradigm gap’ has prevented recent research into world Englishes (WEs) and contrastive rhetoric (CR) from being mutually useful, and suggest particular areas in which insights from CR may benefit in particular the study of WEs. English in its standard ‘native’ form(s) is fast becoming the world’s lingua franca of science, commerce, the mass media, and entertainment. As a result, its non-native uses and users have become sign…
Wailaici and English borrowings in Chinese
We read with interest Hongyuan Wang's article ‘Loans to the Middle Kingdom revisited’ ( ET 77 Jan 04). This is a response to, and continuation of, Elizabeth Malischewski's 1987 article ‘Loan words to the Middle Kingdom’ in ET 12, the author expresses the hope that this description ‘might serve as a useful addition to’ it (Wang 2004:47). We are as delighted to see the topic revisited after sixteen years as the editor, who states that Wang's articl…
English as a Chinese language
Some observations on the possible indigenization of English in mainland China. China boasts the largest English-learning population in the world. ‘It seems there are more people learning to speak English in China than there are English speakers in the whole of the United States’. Over 200 million children, about 20% of the total in the world, are learning English in schools, and about 13 million young people at university. The Chinese government …
China English
The English language is becoming increasingly important in China, for the country as a whole and for individuals, and the language is thus taking roots in this country as it is doing elsewhere. The present paper presents an overview of “China English” studies in the past twenty years, from the debate over the definition to specific studies concerning different aspects of such a newcomer in the family of world Englishes. The author also summarizes…
Metaphors the English language lives by
A discussion of the centrality of imagery in the promotion and use of English worldwide. Metaphor is traditionally considered a “figure of speech”, describing one thing by stating another with which it can be compared, as discussed by rhetoricians and grammarians, from Aristotle in his Poetics and Rhetoric to I. A. Richards in The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936) and Kenneth Burke in A Grammar of Motives (1945), a growing number of recent linguists …
Chinglish and China English
THE ARTICLE ‘Singlish’, in which Duncan Forbes describes the background and nature of the English spoken by Singapore Chinese students, interested me greatly, not only because I always read with great pleasure the reports and discussions on world Englishes, but also because I myself am a Chinese English teacher and teach English in China
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Chinglish and China English
THE ARTICLE ‘Singlish’, in which Duncan Forbes describes the background and nature of the English spoken by Singapore Chinese students, interested me greatly, not only because I always read with great pleasure the reports and discussions on world Englishes, but also because I myself am a Chinese English teacher and teach English in China
China English
The English language is becoming increasingly important in China, for the country as a whole and for individuals, and the language is thus taking roots in this country as it is doing elsewhere. The present paper presents an overview of “China English” studies in the past twenty years, from the debate over the definition to specific studies concerning different aspects of such a newcomer in the family of world Englishes. The author also summarizes…
Metaphors the English language lives by
A discussion of the centrality of imagery in the promotion and use of English worldwide. Metaphor is traditionally considered a “figure of speech”, describing one thing by stating another with which it can be compared, as discussed by rhetoricians and grammarians, from Aristotle in his Poetics and Rhetoric to I. A. Richards in The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936) and Kenneth Burke in A Grammar of Motives (1945), a growing number of recent linguists …
English as a Chinese language
Some observations on the possible indigenization of English in mainland China. China boasts the largest English-learning population in the world. ‘It seems there are more people learning to speak English in China than there are English speakers in the whole of the United States’. Over 200 million children, about 20% of the total in the world, are learning English in schools, and about 13 million young people at university. The Chinese government …
Wailaici and English borrowings in Chinese
We read with interest Hongyuan Wang's article ‘Loans to the Middle Kingdom revisited’ ( ET 77 Jan 04). This is a response to, and continuation of, Elizabeth Malischewski's 1987 article ‘Loan words to the Middle Kingdom’ in ET 12, the author expresses the hope that this description ‘might serve as a useful addition to’ it (Wang 2004:47). We are as delighted to see the topic revisited after sixteen years as the editor, who states that Wang's articl…
World Englishes and contrastive rhetoric
WE ARGUE here that a ‘paradigm gap’ has prevented recent research into world Englishes (WEs) and contrastive rhetoric (CR) from being mutually useful, and suggest particular areas in which insights from CR may benefit in particular the study of WEs. English in its standard ‘native’ form(s) is fast becoming the world’s lingua franca of science, commerce, the mass media, and entertainment. As a result, its non-native uses and users have become sign…
Translated English and universals of translation
This paper investigates the notion of ‘translated English’, in contrast to ‘non-translated English’. Its focal point is that translated English texts differ from comparable non-translated texts in English, the target language (TL), in the sense that they have specific properties that cannot be found in the latter. Translated English, therefore, is a distinct variety of English. What makes it distinct is that, on the one hand, translated English t…
Ren Jian Qing Xing (The world awake) by Liang Xiaosheng
Reviewed by: Ren Jian Qing Xing (The world awake) by Liang Xiaosheng Jiang Yajun Liang Xiaosheng Ren Jian Qing Xing (The world awake) Beijing. Beijing United. 2021. 313 pages. AFTER WINNING THE Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2019, Liang Xiaosheng gathered some of his life stories for his latest book, Ren Jian Qing Xing (The world awake), to convey his feelings about life: stay awake, stay angry, stay true. The book can be divided into two parts. In …
More diversity, more complexity, but more flexibility
China’s metaphorically “othered” image in The New York Times (1949-2020)
This study investigates, within the framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis, how The New York Times ( NYT) has been metaphorically formulating China as an “other” from 1949 to 2020. Metaphors were identified with reference to Pragglejaz Group’s (2007) Metaphor Identification Procedure. WAR and GAME were detected as dominant concepts, and LIQUID, DISEASE, ANIMAL, MACHINE, and OBSTACLE secondary imagery. It is found that the newspaper’s journalisti…
Uninterrupted People (Bu Jian Duan De Ren) by Shuang Xuetao (review)
Are the titles of doctoral dissertations and research articles different? Observations from four STEM disciplines
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · China (6 works) · History (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Literature (3 works)