Agnes Weiyun He
List of John Benjamins publications for which Agnes Weiyun He plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1877-7031 | E-ISSN 1877-8798
Title
Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency
Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He
[Studies in Bilingualism, 14] 1998. x, 395 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics
2013 The painted word: Translingual practices within turn constructional units Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.), pp. 127–146 | Article
This paper examines code-switching between English and Chinese by speakers of Chinese as a heritage language. It focuses on spontaneous, dynamic, natural and high-density code-switching within the smallest building block of a speaking turn – the turn constructional unit. Drawing upon naturally… read more
2011 The role of repair in modulating modal stances in Chinese discourse Chinese Language and Discourse 2:1, pp. 1–22 | Article
This study explores the intersubjective and dynamic construction of modal meanings in Chinese discourse. Specifically, it examines the role conversational repair plays in ascertaining the entailments of modal meanings such as obligation, possibility and permissibility, specifying the range of modal… read more
2004 Identity construction in Chinese heritage language classes Relationality: Discursive constructions of Asian Pacific American identities, Lo, Adrienne and Angela Reyes (eds.), pp. 199–216 | Article
From an interactionally enriched linguistic anthropological perspective, this article promotes the view that identity is indexical with specific sets of acts and stances, which in turn are constructed by specific language forms. Based on detailed sequential and grammatical analyses of data from… read more
1998 Answering Questions in LPIs: A Case Study Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency, Young, Richard and Agnes Weiyun He (eds.), pp. 101–116 | Article
1998 "You know" as an information status enhancing device: Arguments from grammar and interaction Functions of Language 5:2, pp. 133–155 | Article
This article addresses the usage of "you know" in naturally occurring interactional data from a functional-linguistic and conversationanalytic perspective. We suggest that "you know" is more than a lexical choice made by the speaker to express his/her unilateral communicative desires. It is a… read more
1998 Language Proficiency Interviews: A Discourse Approach Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency, Young, Richard and Agnes Weiyun He (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
1996 Stories As Academic Counseling Resources Journal of Narrative and Life History 6:2, pp. 107–121 | Article
Abstract This article explores narrative activities in academic counseling encounters. It shows that academic counselors actively initiate, solicit, narrate, and collaborate on stories so as to display knowledge and expertise, assess and articulate students' counseling problems, and problematize… read more
