Yaxin Wu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yaxin Wu plays a role.
Articles
2024 The DIG Mandarin Conversations (DMC) Corpus: Mundane phone calls in Mandarin Chinese as resources for research and teaching Chinese Language and Discourse 15:1, pp. 105–141 | Article
This paper introduces the DMC Corpus – a newly collected dataset of 150 mundane cell phone calls from Mainland China in Mandarin Chinese (audio and detailed transcripts) – which is now publicly available for use in research and teaching. In this report, we first describe the constitution and… read more
2013 The calculability of communicative intentions through pragmatic reasoning Pragmatics & Cognition 21:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
We provide conceptual and empirical support for the core tenet in pragmatic theory that speakers make their communicative intention about the pragmatic meaning of their utterances recognizable to hearers. First, we attribute skepticism about this tenet to conceptualizing communicative intentions as… read more