Naixing Wei
List of John Benjamins publications in which Naixing Wei is involved.
Articles
2018 “I’m really sorry about what I said”: A local grammar of apology Pragmatics 28:3, pp. 439–462 | Article
This paper extends the concept of local grammar to speech act studies, focusing specifically on apologising in English. It aims primarily to demonstrate the usefulness of a local grammar approach to account for speech acts and ultimately to contribute to the on-going development of corpus… read more
2013 A new computing method for extracting contiguous phraseological sequences from academic text corpora International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 18:4, pp. 506–535 | Article
This study aims to develop a new computing method for extracting contiguous phraseological sequences (PSs) of various lengths from academic text corpora by measuring internal associations of n-grams. We construct a new normalizing algorithm of probability-weighted average for refining the MI… read more