Yixin Wang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yixin Wang plays a role.
Articles
2025 “Do you have a pen?” “Yes.”: A cross-cultural and interlanguage analysis of pre-request sequences in Spanish and Chinese Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates how the cross-cultural variation between Spanish and Chinese interactional styles influences the interlanguage pre-request sequences in Spanish produced by Chinese-speaking learners. Ninety-four university students, including 40 Chinese learners of Spanish at intermediate… read more
2022 Politeness and pragmatic transfer in L2 pronominal address usage: Variation of T/V pronouns in Spanish by Chinese learners Spanish in Context 19:1, pp. 25–47 | Article
This study investigates how Chinese learners of Spanish, who have a T/V distinction in their first language (L1), use the T/V address forms in Spanish as a second language (L2). Findings show that the learners rely mainly on their L1 pragmatic knowledge to employ the T/V in the L2. Despite… read more