Dafu Yang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dafu Yang plays a role.
Article
2024 Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing: Modesty as motivation Pragmatics and Society 15:3, pp. 425–447 | Article
In this paper, we report on how authors of academic writing in Chinese (AWC) refer to themselves as single authors in the area of language studies. We find that AWC writers rely on the 1st-person plural 我们
women “we,” 3rd-person NPs such as 作者/笔者
zuozhe/bizhe “this author,” and… read more