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Qiu-Rong Zhao

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Open access Sep 2026

An intermodal approach to the complementizer that in constrained and unconstrained language

Abstract This study investigates the factors conditioning the that/zero alternation in four varieties of political discourse: translated and interpreted English as constrained varieties, and original written and spoken English as unconstrained varieties. Distinctive collexeme analysis and multivariate analysis were emp...

Qiu-Rong Zhao, Si-Qi Lin · Language and Cognition · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Navigating performativity via stage directions expressing emotion: a case study of the English-Chinese drama translation of Lady Windermere’s Fan

The affective pragmatic investigation of stage directions offers a valuable lens for how emotional expression activates the performativity of playtexts, as exemplified by the landmark success of Hong Shen’s English-Chinese translation of Lady Windermere’s Fan. This study integrates corpus-based quantitative analysis wi...

Wen-Shuang Li, Qiu-Rong Zhao · Frontiers in Psychology · 0 citations