Yang Yang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yang Yang plays a role.
Articles
2024 “By whom was I left behind?”: Identity struggles in the narratives of Chinese leftover women ( sheng nü ) Narrative Inquiry 34:1, pp. 53–77 | Article
Applying Bamberg’s (2012) practice-oriented analytical framework for narrative identity as produced through specific linguistic behaviours, this research focuses on the context-specific construction of multiple identities in the accounts of Chinese leftover women (sheng nü). It also seeks to… read more
2019 Clause type anticipation based on prosody in Mandarin International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:1, pp. 1–26 | Article
Mandarin wh-words such as shénme are wh-indeterminates, which can have interrogative interpretations (‘what’) or non-interrogative interpretations (i.e., ‘something’), depending on the context and licensors. For example, when diǎnr (‘a little’) appears right in front of a wh-word, the string can… read more