Lixian Jin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lixian Jin plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics

Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children

Edited by Zhu Hua and Lixian Jin

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1 (2012) v, 127 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
For decades there has been a debate about whether parents with different socioeconomic status have differential influences on their children’s language development. This study focuses on the features of language use of Mandarin-speaking mothers with different educational backgrounds in interaction… read more
For decades there has been a debate about whether parents with different socioeconomic status have differential influences on their children’s language development. This study focuses on the features of language use of Mandarin-speaking mothers with different educational backgrounds in interaction… read more
Jin, Lixian and Martin Cortazzi 2008 Images of teachers, learning and questioning in Chinese cultures of learningMetaphors for Learning: Cross-cultural Perspectives, Berendt, Erich A. (ed.), pp. 177–202 | Article