Hang Su
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hang Su plays a role.
2022 Apology responses and gender differences in spoken British English: A corpus study Pragmatics 32:1, pp. 28–53 | Article
This study presents a corpus-based sociopragmatic investigation into apology responses (ARs) and gender differences in ARs in spoken British English. Using data taken from the recently released Spoken BNC2014, the investigation leads to an adjusted taxonomy of ARs which comprises five categories… read more
2021 Changing patterns of apology in spoken British English: A local grammar based diachronic investigation Pragmatics and Society 12:3, pp. 410–436 | Article
This paper presents a local grammar based diachronic investigation of apology in spoken British English, aiming to offer an alternative approach for diachronic speech act analysis and to further explore what the changing patterns of apology would suggest about the social-cultural changes… read more
2020 Local grammars and diachronic speech act analysis: A case study of apology in the history of American English Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:1, pp. 109–136 | Article
This paper proposes a method that is designed to facilitate diachronic speech act analysis. The proposed method draws on the corpus linguistic concept of local grammar – an approach which seeks to account for, not the whole of a language, but one meaning or function only. Local grammar… read more
2019 Language patterns and attitude revisited: Adjective patterns, Attitude and Appraisal Functions of Language 26:3, pp. 343–371 | Article
This paper investigates the association between language patterns and attitudinal meanings, focusing specifically on adjective complementation patterns and types of attitudes as proposed in the Appraisal framework (Martin & White 2005). The investigation shows that the tripartite division of… read more
2018 “I’m really sorry about what I said”: A local grammar of apology Pragmatics 28:3, pp. 439–462 | Article
This paper extends the concept of local grammar to speech act studies, focusing specifically on apologising in English. It aims primarily to demonstrate the usefulness of a local grammar approach to account for speech acts and ultimately to contribute to the on-going development of corpus… read more
2015 Review of Yan & Webster (2014): Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Application Sensory Perceptions in Language and Cognition, Caballero, Rosario and Carita Paradis (eds.), pp. 150–159 | Review