Lianrui Yang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lianrui Yang plays a role.

Journal

Articles

Pei, Xiaoyu, Lianrui Yang, Ying Chen and Brent Wolter 2023 Chinese EFL learners’ apology strategies: A multimodal perspectiveApplied Pragmatics 5:1, pp. 64–85 | Article
This paper presents a multimodal analysis of apologies performed by Chinese EFL learners at two proficiency levels by considering their use of both verbal and nonverbal (i.e., gestures and gaze) strategies. The results showed that both groups used IFID (illocutionary force indicating device,… read more
Yan, Haijuan, Lianrui Yang and Shifa Chen 2019 R. W. Gibbs, Jr. Metaphor wars: Conceptual metaphors in human life Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 295–301 | Review
This study uses a corpus-based method to analyze the developmental paths of syntactic and lexical complexity in Chinese EFL learners across three proficiency levels. It examines six pieces of English essays written in one semester under school instruction. The goal is to identify both group… read more