Yan Zhou
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yan Zhou plays a role.
Articles
2020 The principle of proportionality: Consequentiality and promises in Mandarin conversation Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1, pp. 107–133 | Article
In Mandarin conversation, utterances about future actions with severe consequences are observed to correlate with bigger promises, marked by devices indicating greater illocutionary force, as compared with those about actions with less serious consequences. Applying the principle of… read more
2019 What are speakers doing when they pretend to be uncertain? Actions with non-committal epistemic stance in Mandarin Conversation Conversation Analysis in Chinese: Part II, Lim, Ni-Eng (ed.), pp. 187–223 | Article
This paper investigates conversational actions accomplished by a knowing speaker who takes a non-committal epistemic stance using epistemic adverbs expressing uncertainty in Mandarin conversations. This study finds that adverbs of uncertainty such as keneng, yexu, and dagai, are used… read more