All Stories

  1. Conceptualizing the environment

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, March 2026, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Zhengdao Ye

  2. Landscape and/in ethnonational concepts in Chinese

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, March 2026, John Benjamins

    Dr Zhengdao Ye, Xu Rao

  3. The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger

    Article • August 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  4. The Emergence of Expressible Agency and Irony in Today’s China: A Semantic Explanation of the New Bèi-construction

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  5. "Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures

    Article • July 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Zhengdao Ye

  6. "Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, October 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Zhengdao Ye

  7. Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, October 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Zhengdao Ye

  8. The meaning of “happiness” (xìngfú) and “emotional pain” (tòngkŭ) in Chinese

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, October 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  9. Understanding the Conceptual Basis of the ‘Old Friend’ Formula in Chinese Social Interaction and Foreign Diplomacy: A Cultural Script Approach

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  10. Comparing the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to emotion and the GRID paradigm1

    Article • August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  11. Eating and Drinking in Mandarin and Shanghainese: A Lexical-Conceptual Analysis

    Article • January 2010, Institute of Human Cognition and Brain Science (IHCBS)

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  12. 6. Taste as a gateway to Chinese cognition

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  13. 7. 'Memorisation', learning and cultural cognition: The notion ofbèi('auditory memorisation') in the written Chinese tradition

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  14. When 'empty words' are not empty: Examples from the semantic analyses of some 'emotional adverbs' in Mandarin Chinese

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, October 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  15. The Chinese Folk Model of Facial Expressions: a Linguistic Perspective

    Article • Culture & Psychology, June 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  16. Chinese categorization of interpersonal relationships and the cultural logic of Chinese social interaction: An indigenous perspective

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2004, De Gruyter

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  17. ‘La Double Vie de Veronica’: reflections on my life as a Chinese migrant in Australia

    Article • Life Writing, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  18. Different modes of describing emotions in Chinese

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, July 2002, John Benjamins

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  19. Los sentimientos morales de la «tristeza» china. Una ilustración del acercamiento del Metalenguaje Semántico Natural (MSN) al análisis de algunas emociones chinas «básicas»

    Article • Isegoría, December 2001, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  20. An inquiry into “sadness” in Chinese

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Zhengdao Ye

  21. 5. Why the “inscrutable” Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Zhengdao Ye