Zepeng Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3812239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zepeng Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zepeng |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanjing University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0735-2338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tailoring language to social hierarchies: A pragmatic study on the salutation in Zeng Guofan’s Family Letter s
This paper presents a study examining the pragmatic strategies employed by Zeng Guofan in his renowned family letters to craft qici ( 启辞 , ‘salutation’), as well as the potential relationship between social hierarchies and the specific wording used in these opening phrases. The study reveals that, across 1,449 letters containing salutations, Zeng Guofan deployed seven distinct patterns of salutation. Significant differences were observed in his u…
I am criticizing you when I say “I am not criticizing you”: A prosodic-pragmatic exploration of the Chinese metapragmatic negation bùshì wǒ shuō nǐ
Hospitality and ritual: A discursive study of toasting in Chinese dining contexts
The paper aims to explore toasting conventions and strategies in Chinese dining contexts from a discursive perspective by analyzing naturally occurring cases of toasting from Douyin and Haokan Video . Particular attention is paid to how Chinese hospitality, interpersonal achievements through toasting rituals, and the culture behind them are interactively constructed. The findings indicate that toasting conventions in Chinese dining contexts can b…
The devil lies in prosody: Prosodic veins of the Chinese discourse marker Haole 好了 at the left and right periphery
The current paper reports on a study investigating the prosodic features of the Chinese discourse marker haole . The data were collected from 14 native Chinese speakers who participated in two recording sessions designed by the authors. The results indicate that haole as a discourse marker occurring at different syntactic positions is prosodically distinct. Specifically, in some cases, haole at the left periphery (LP) is prosodically independent …
A Comparative Study of the Speech Act Advise in Two English Translations of the I Ching
The present paper reports on a study that compares the strategies of performing Advise as a speech act in two English translations of the I Ching by Richard Wilhelm/Cary F. Baynes (hereafter, the Wilhelm/Baynes translation) and Alfred Huang (hereafter, the Huang translation) respectively. A dataset consisting of 2,665 sentences was described, compared and analysed after being extracted from the two translations of the I Ching . As a result, the r…
Assessment of national reimbursement anticancer medications availability in China: Based on a medical institution perspective
The low availability of NRAMs in national and provincial medical institutions indicates that their willingness to equip NRAMs needs to be improved. All factors examined in this study affected the availability of NRAMs. Our findings can guide policymakers in improving relevant policies
Where there is suffering, there is sympathy: The speech act Sympathize in learning Chinese as a foreign language
The present paper aims to explore the performance of Sympathize as a speech act by advanced learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). We collected data from both 16 advanced CFL learners and 16 native speakers of Chinese through a DCT, and we then asked 10 native speakers of Chinese to rate the appropriacy of the DCTs provided by the two groups. The results of our analysis show that the language use of native speakers and advanced learners…
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Where there is suffering, there is sympathy: The speech act Sympathize in learning Chinese as a foreign language
The present paper aims to explore the performance of Sympathize as a speech act by advanced learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). We collected data from both 16 advanced CFL learners and 16 native speakers of Chinese through a DCT, and we then asked 10 native speakers of Chinese to rate the appropriacy of the DCTs provided by the two groups. The results of our analysis show that the language use of native speakers and advanced learners…
The devil lies in prosody: Prosodic veins of the Chinese discourse marker Haole 好了 at the left and right periphery
The current paper reports on a study investigating the prosodic features of the Chinese discourse marker haole . The data were collected from 14 native Chinese speakers who participated in two recording sessions designed by the authors. The results indicate that haole as a discourse marker occurring at different syntactic positions is prosodically distinct. Specifically, in some cases, haole at the left periphery (LP) is prosodically independent …
A Comparative Study of the Speech Act Advise in Two English Translations of the I Ching
The present paper reports on a study that compares the strategies of performing Advise as a speech act in two English translations of the I Ching by Richard Wilhelm/Cary F. Baynes (hereafter, the Wilhelm/Baynes translation) and Alfred Huang (hereafter, the Huang translation) respectively. A dataset consisting of 2,665 sentences was described, compared and analysed after being extracted from the two translations of the I Ching . As a result, the r…
Assessment of national reimbursement anticancer medications availability in China: Based on a medical institution perspective
The low availability of NRAMs in national and provincial medical institutions indicates that their willingness to equip NRAMs needs to be improved. All factors examined in this study affected the availability of NRAMs. Our findings can guide policymakers in improving relevant policies
Tailoring language to social hierarchies: A pragmatic study on the salutation in Zeng Guofan’s Family Letter s
This paper presents a study examining the pragmatic strategies employed by Zeng Guofan in his renowned family letters to craft qici ( 启辞 , ‘salutation’), as well as the potential relationship between social hierarchies and the specific wording used in these opening phrases. The study reveals that, across 1,449 letters containing salutations, Zeng Guofan deployed seven distinct patterns of salutation. Significant differences were observed in his u…
I am criticizing you when I say “I am not criticizing you”: A prosodic-pragmatic exploration of the Chinese metapragmatic negation bùshì wǒ shuō nǐ
Hospitality and ritual: A discursive study of toasting in Chinese dining contexts
The paper aims to explore toasting conventions and strategies in Chinese dining contexts from a discursive perspective by analyzing naturally occurring cases of toasting from Douyin and Haokan Video . Particular attention is paid to how Chinese hospitality, interpersonal achievements through toasting rituals, and the culture behind them are interactively constructed. The findings indicate that toasting conventions in Chinese dining contexts can b…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)