Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 1877-7031 | E-ISSN 1877-8798
Titles
Conversation Analysis in Chinese
Edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 7:2 (2016) v, 166 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Stance in Talk: A conversation analysis of Mandarin final particles
Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 117] 2004. xvi, 260 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Articles
2018 Chapter 10. Turn design and progression: The use of aiyou in Mandarin conversation Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages, Heritage, John and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 287–314 | Chapter
The temporal character of talk is one fundamental feature of language in situ. As interaction unfolds, participants need to not only monitor the temporal progression of talk toward completion, but also attend to how the current turn ties back to the preceding turns. Whereas such dual-directional… read more
2017 Particles and epistemics: Convergences and divergences between English and Mandarin Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff, Raymond, Geoffrey, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage (eds.), pp. 273–297 | Chapter
This chapter examines three particles that have epistemic functions in English and Mandarin: turn-initial‘oh’in English, turn-initial‘ou’in Mandarin, and turn-final‘a’in Mandarin. It is argued that whileouandohconverge in registering a ‘change of state’ of information, orientation or awareness,… read more
2016 Introduction Conversation Analysis in Chinese, Thompson, Sandra A. and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu (eds.), pp. 175–178 | Article
2016 Turn design and progression: Aiyou in Mandarin conversation Conversation Analysis in Chinese, Thompson, Sandra A. and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu (eds.), pp. 210–236 | Article
The temporal character of talk is one fundamental feature of language in situ. As interaction unfolds, participants need to not only monitor the temporal progression of talk toward a completion, but also attend to how the current turn ties back to the preceding turns. Whereas such dual-directional… read more
2016 Doing conversation analysis in Mandarin Chinese: Basic methods Conversation Analysis in Chinese, Thompson, Sandra A. and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu (eds.), pp. 179–209 | Article
This article aims to introduce Conversation Analytic (CA) methods to the community of Chinese scholars, and especially to linguists who work with Mandarin Chinese and are just beginning to adopt CA methods in their work. I believe doing CA requires not only an understanding of its terminology but… read more
2002 Discourse-pragmatic principles for temporal reference in Mandarin Chinese conversation Studies in Language 26:3, pp. 513–541 | Article
This study investigates the Mandarin temporal system in ordinary conversations. It is found that during the dynamic time course of interaction, Mandarin speakers tend to rely more heavily on certain underlying principles, rather than on overt markers, to convey temporal location: In a narrative… read more