Yan Wang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yan Wang is involved.
Articles
2025 How do Mandarin-speaking children relate events in personal narratives? Narrative Inquiry 35:1, pp. 180–202 | Article
This study explored Mandarin-speaking children’s independent ability in using conjunctions to relate events in personal narration. Twenty three-year-olds, twenty four-year-olds, twenty five-year-olds and twenty six-year-olds participated, and they were prompted to tell personal stories.… read more
2022 A discourse-pragmatic functional study of Chinese epistemic markers haoxiang “seem” and keneng “probably” International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9:2, pp. 304–328 | Article
This study investigates the discourse-pragmatic functions of the epistemic markers haoxiang “seem” and keneng “probably” in natural conversations of Mandarin Chinese. By examining 107 cases of haoxiang and 152 cases of keneng in sequential contexts, it demonstrates that both haoxiang and keneng… read more
2018 Chapter 7. From subjectivity to intersubjectivity: A discourse-pragmatic study of the Japanese epistemic marker kamo (shirenai) Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 173–196 | Chapter
This study investigates the discourse-pragmatic functions of the Japanese sentence-final expression kamo (shirenai) ‘maybe’ in natural conversations. By investigating 72 cases of kamo (shirenai) in sequential contexts, my study demonstrates that showing epistemic uncertainty is not the only… read more