Contracted
Metaphor Translation and Ideology Mediation in Global Pandemic News: A Bidirectional Chinese-English Corpus Analysis
Routledge
Research outputs
Publications
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Monograph
Journal Articles
2026
Exploring AI’s processing of and responses to metaphors in health-related conversations: A pragmatic analysis of cancer and depression discourse
Journal of Pragmatics
2026
Metaphors and identities in online descriptions of the experience of pain
With Elena Semino & Jane Demmen · Communication & Medicine 20(3), 267–276
2025
Metaphors and China’s COVID-19 policies: a diachronic analysis of Chinese-English bilingual news editorials
With Dechao Li · Text & Talk 46(1), 53–78
2025
War, Tool, Race or Building? A comparison of vaccine metaphors between (translated) media and scientific reports in the age of COVID-19
With Dechao Li · Journalism 26(1), 128–148
2025
Incorporating cross-linguistic and time-based dimensions to Critical Metaphor Analysis: a specialised hands-on analytical approach
With Dechao Li & Jieyun Feng · Critical Discourse Studies 22(6), 664–684
2024
Cancer experience in metaphors: patients, carers, professionals, students – a scoping review
With Elena Semino, Judith Rietjens & Sheila Payne · BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 14(3)
2024
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media
With Dechao Li · Social Semiotics 34(2), 269–288
2023
Modellability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation
With Dennis Tay · Lingua 286, 103490
2022
The US-China battle over Coronavirus in the news media: Metaphor transfer as a representation of stance mediation
With Dechao Li · Discourse & Society 33(4), 456–477
Book Chapters
2025
Time series
With Dennis Tay & Dean Mellow · The Encyclopaedia of Applied Linguistics · Wiley
2023
Xinjiang in Harmony and Prosperity: A Discourse Analysis of Multimodal Metaphor Reframing in a Promotional Video of China’s Xinjiang
With Dechao Li · Routledge
2023
Metaphor Translation as Reframing: Chinese Versus Western Stance Mediation in COVID-19 News Reports
With Dechao Li · Springer
Book Reviews
2024
Data analytics for discourse analysis with Python—The case of therapy talk
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 39(4), 1164–1167
2022
Contesting Epistemologies in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Across Languages and Cultures 24(2), 259–265
2019
Making way in corpus-based interpreting studies
Corpus Linguistics 6(2), 110–114
Refereed Conference Proceedings
2024
Cancer experiences in metaphors: A scoping review in 4D PICTURE Project
Palliative Medicine 38 · World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care
2024
Analysing Emotions in Cancer Narratives: A Corpus-Driven Approach
With Daisy M. Lal, Paul Rayson & Sheila Payne · LREC-COLING
2024
Medical-FLAVORS: A Figurative Language and Vocabulary Open Repository for Spanish in the Medical Domain
Lucia Pitarch, Emma Angles-Herrero, Yufeng Liu, Daisy Monika Lal, Jorge Gracia, Paul Rayson & Judith Rietjens · Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing at LREC-COLING 2024, 109–114
Manuscripts Under Review
Under review
Illness identities and metaphors in online peer-to-peer communication about prostate and ovarian cancer
With Elena Semino, Judith Rietjens & Sheila Payne
Under review
Lived experience of ovarian cancer: An analysis of metaphors in online communication
With Elena Semino, Lára Rún Hallsson, Judith Rietjens & Sheila Payne