Yang Yang

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

Articles

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
Yang, Yang, Stella Gryllia, Leticia Pablos and Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng 2019 Clause type anticipation based on prosody in MandarinInternational 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