Jia Yang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jia Yang plays a role.
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Chapter 8. Constraints on the collocational behaviors of Chinese near-synonyms: A corpus-based analysis. Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun and Linda Tsung (eds.), pp. 156–176
2019. This paper reports a corpus-based study to examine how Chinese near-synonyms choose their typical collocates. Near-synonyms commonly misused by English-speaking learners of Chinese were selected for analysis. Results obtained from the corpora (the Chinese Internet Corpus by the University of Leeds… read more | Chapter
CFL learners’ recognition and production of pragmatic routine formulae. Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 51:1, pp. 29–61
2016. A pragmatic routine formula is any expression with a stable form that is commonly repeated in the routinized social interactions of a given culture. Previous research has reported that such pragmatic routine formulae are often underused by foreign language learners, even when they have been… read more | Article