I-Ni Tsai

orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-0366

List of John Benjamins publications in which I-Ni Tsai is involved.

Journal

Chinese Language and Discourse

An International and Interdisciplinary Journal

Edited by Xiaoting Li, K.K. Luke, Hongyin Tao and Li Wei

ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798

Articles

Tsai, I-Ni 2026 Calibrating understanding in interaction: Candidate understandings in Mandarin other-initiated repair Interactional Problems and Their Resolutions in Natural Discourse in Languages in Taiwan, Chang, Miao-Hsia (ed.), pp. 170–196 | Article

This study examines how Mandarin Chinese speakers deploy candidate understandings in other-initiated repair in everyday interaction. Drawing on 15 hours of naturally occurring conversation, the analysis shows that candidate understandings recurrently emerge when some aspect of prior talk is… read more

Tsai, I-Ni 2024 Navigating claims of insufficient knowledge in one-on-one Chinese tutoring: A special case of teacher-student engagement Teacher-Student Engagement Patterns in CSL Classrooms and Beyond: Video-based multimodal analyses, Tao, Hongyin and Yan Zhou (eds.), pp. 385–411 | Article

This study examines the occurrence of claims of insufficient knowledge in one-on-one college-level Chinese tutoring sessions, drawing on 12 hours of videotaped data. Using conversation analysis, it examines the progression of these claims, the multimodal resources employed, and tutors’ responses. read more