Jennifer Yameng Liang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5979008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Yameng Liang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Yameng |
| FAMILY NAME | Liang |
| SIGNATURE | LIANG J Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Science and Technology Beijing |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0598-864X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sculpting the interpersonal
The underlying question of this article is ‘how do statues convey interpersonal meaning?’ To answer this question, the authors briefly critically examine the current social semiotic analytical framework for statues and develop a revised framework for analysing interpersonal meaning in which features from Kress and van Leeuwen’s Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (2006) and selected features from O’Toole’s framework from The Language of …
Understanding context in computer-mediated communication
With unprecedented transformations taking place in the landscape of what to say and how we mean, interactions in the digital age take on various new forms of doing and being . To make sense of “what it is that is going on” requires an understanding of the context wherein the computer-mediated communications take place. Focusing on a burgeoning online video commenting discourse in mainland China called Danmaku (a media feature that projects viewer…
Legitimating sex education through children’s picture books in China
This paper analyses two Chinese sex education picture books for children aged between 3 and 6 years of age using van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework, which identifies four types of legitimation strategies: authorization, moral evaluation, rationalisation and mythopoesis. Our findings suggest that personal authority tends to be vested in mothers as the conveyers of sex education to young children. Moral evaluation is realised through values such …
Critical multimodal studies of popular discourse
Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China
This study examines the types of verbal, pictorial, and multimodal metaphors in the genre of sex education picture books for young children in Mainland China. Although being an educational discourse genre that is essentially concerned with transmitting scientific facts, sex education picture books employ a range of metaphors that categorize and construe the biological knowledge of human reproduction in a way that not only facilitates young childr…
Young children’s ideas about environment
Many efforts have been made around the globe to advocate for and encourage environmental sustainability education (ESE). As many as 15 fields can serve as ‘currents’ on the greater field of environmental education, including environmental education and education for sustainability. We acknowledge that each is a separate and distinct field of inquiry, but choose not to limit our perspective to any one field or the other. Thus, we have elected to u…
Representing sexuality and morality in sex education picture books in contemporary China
This study conducts a social semiotic analysis of six sex education picture books for preschool children in the People’s Republic of China. Following van Leeuwen’s framework for analysing the discursive construction of social actors, this paper examines two types of social actors directly associated with the education of human sexuality: the physical body of human beings and the institutional, disciplinary body of the family. The analysis of the …
Representing Chairman Mao
This article presents an analysis of two entirely different statues of Chairman Mao: the first, a full figure statue completed in 1993, and the other, an immense bust completed in 2009. Both statues were sites included on a ‘Red Tour’ in which one of the authors participated in March 2011. It is assumed that the tour organizers consider both of the statues worthy of visiting, and of fulfilling the aims of a Red Tour. These aims, according to the …
Multimodal Studies
This work was supported by the Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China [Grant No. 13YJAZH001]
Chinese tourist site entry tickets
This article explores how tourist site entry tickets multimodally construe a coherent message and how they are integrated into a grander ecosocial process. Primarily using Royce's intersemiotic complementarity framework we focus on the ideational meanings of an entry ticket to a famous site called the Juyong Pass along the Great Wall of China. Our analysis reveals two types of cohesion: the internal and the extended. As for internal cohesion, int…
The multimodal construal of the experiential domain of recipes in Japanese and Chinese
This paper presents an analysis of the multimodal construal of the semantic domain of culinary operations in Japanese and Chinese. The analysis uses the semantic domain framework developed by Halliday and Matthiessen (1999) and the system of logico-semantic relations between image and text developed by Martinec and Salway (2005). The data consist of multimodal recipes for Chinese dumplings in both Japanese and Chinese with occasional reference to…
Young children’s ideas about environment
Many efforts have been made around the globe to advocate for and encourage environmental sustainability education (ESE). As many as 15 fields can serve as ‘currents’ on the greater field of environmental education, including environmental education and education for sustainability. We acknowledge that each is a separate and distinct field of inquiry, but choose not to limit our perspective to any one field or the other. Thus, we have elected to u…
Representing sexuality and morality in sex education picture books in contemporary China
This study conducts a social semiotic analysis of six sex education picture books for preschool children in the People’s Republic of China. Following van Leeuwen’s framework for analysing the discursive construction of social actors, this paper examines two types of social actors directly associated with the education of human sexuality: the physical body of human beings and the institutional, disciplinary body of the family. The analysis of the …
Chinese tourist site entry tickets
This article explores how tourist site entry tickets multimodally construe a coherent message and how they are integrated into a grander ecosocial process. Primarily using Royce's intersemiotic complementarity framework we focus on the ideational meanings of an entry ticket to a famous site called the Juyong Pass along the Great Wall of China. Our analysis reveals two types of cohesion: the internal and the extended. As for internal cohesion, int…
Representing Chairman Mao
This article presents an analysis of two entirely different statues of Chairman Mao: the first, a full figure statue completed in 1993, and the other, an immense bust completed in 2009. Both statues were sites included on a ‘Red Tour’ in which one of the authors participated in March 2011. It is assumed that the tour organizers consider both of the statues worthy of visiting, and of fulfilling the aims of a Red Tour. These aims, according to the …
Multimodal Studies
This work was supported by the Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China [Grant No. 13YJAZH001]
Chinese tourist site entry tickets
This article explores how tourist site entry tickets multimodally construe a coherent message and how they are integrated into a grander ecosocial process. Primarily using Royce's intersemiotic complementarity framework we focus on the ideational meanings of an entry ticket to a famous site called the Juyong Pass along the Great Wall of China. Our analysis reveals two types of cohesion: the internal and the extended. As for internal cohesion, int…
The multimodal construal of the experiential domain of recipes in Japanese and Chinese
This paper presents an analysis of the multimodal construal of the semantic domain of culinary operations in Japanese and Chinese. The analysis uses the semantic domain framework developed by Halliday and Matthiessen (1999) and the system of logico-semantic relations between image and text developed by Martinec and Salway (2005). The data consist of multimodal recipes for Chinese dumplings in both Japanese and Chinese with occasional reference to…
Representing Chairman Mao
This article presents an analysis of two entirely different statues of Chairman Mao: the first, a full figure statue completed in 1993, and the other, an immense bust completed in 2009. Both statues were sites included on a ‘Red Tour’ in which one of the authors participated in March 2011. It is assumed that the tour organizers consider both of the statues worthy of visiting, and of fulfilling the aims of a Red Tour. These aims, according to the …
Multimodal Studies
This work was supported by the Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China [Grant No. 13YJAZH001]
Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China
This study examines the types of verbal, pictorial, and multimodal metaphors in the genre of sex education picture books for young children in Mainland China. Although being an educational discourse genre that is essentially concerned with transmitting scientific facts, sex education picture books employ a range of metaphors that categorize and construe the biological knowledge of human reproduction in a way that not only facilitates young childr…
Young children’s ideas about environment
Many efforts have been made around the globe to advocate for and encourage environmental sustainability education (ESE). As many as 15 fields can serve as ‘currents’ on the greater field of environmental education, including environmental education and education for sustainability. We acknowledge that each is a separate and distinct field of inquiry, but choose not to limit our perspective to any one field or the other. Thus, we have elected to u…
Representing sexuality and morality in sex education picture books in contemporary China
This study conducts a social semiotic analysis of six sex education picture books for preschool children in the People’s Republic of China. Following van Leeuwen’s framework for analysing the discursive construction of social actors, this paper examines two types of social actors directly associated with the education of human sexuality: the physical body of human beings and the institutional, disciplinary body of the family. The analysis of the …
Critical multimodal studies of popular discourse
Legitimating sex education through children’s picture books in China
This paper analyses two Chinese sex education picture books for children aged between 3 and 6 years of age using van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework, which identifies four types of legitimation strategies: authorization, moral evaluation, rationalisation and mythopoesis. Our findings suggest that personal authority tends to be vested in mothers as the conveyers of sex education to young children. Moral evaluation is realised through values such …
Understanding context in computer-mediated communication
With unprecedented transformations taking place in the landscape of what to say and how we mean, interactions in the digital age take on various new forms of doing and being . To make sense of “what it is that is going on” requires an understanding of the context wherein the computer-mediated communications take place. Focusing on a burgeoning online video commenting discourse in mainland China called Danmaku (a media feature that projects viewer…
Sculpting the interpersonal
The underlying question of this article is ‘how do statues convey interpersonal meaning?’ To answer this question, the authors briefly critically examine the current social semiotic analytical framework for statues and develop a revised framework for analysing interpersonal meaning in which features from Kress and van Leeuwen’s Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (2006) and selected features from O’Toole’s framework from The Language of …
Sociology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · China (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Semiotics (5 works)