Shu-Yu Huang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shu-Yu Huang is involved.
2026 Marking pedagogical saliency with honh in Taiwan Mandarin interaction Interactional Linguistics 6:1, pp. 66–94 | Article
Honh is a pervasive particle in Taiwan Mandarin interaction. While prior pragmatic research has identified honh as “signaling negotiation invitation” (Li 1999, p. 90) in Taiwanese Southern Min and Hakka, its specific interactional functions in Taiwan Mandarin remain underexplored. This… read more
2025 Establishing joint attention to embodied actions with zheyang(zi) in Taiwan Mandarin cooking demonstrations Chinese Language and Discourse 16:2, pp. 271–304 | Article
This study examines how teachers employ the Chinese manner demonstrative, zheyang(zi) ‘like this; this way,’ to direct students’ attention toward their embodied actions during instructional demonstrations. Data consists of 84 cases from 12.5 hours of videotaped interaction in a cooking class in… read more
2020 Mandarin telephone closings among familiars: A comparison between natural speech and textbook dialogues Applied Pragmatics 2:2, pp. 199–226 | Article
This study compared Mandarin phone closings among familiars in natural conversations with those in Chinese learning textbooks. The natural data was drawn from the CALLFRIEND Mandarin Chinese Corpus (Canavan & Zipperlen, 1996a, 1996b), while the textbook dialogues were extracted from 20 series… read more
2019 Differentiating and teaching the Chinese near-synonyms kongpa and pa Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 54:1, pp. 31–50 | Article
Previous research and data from learner corpora show that Chinese language learners have a hard time differentiating kǒngpà (恐怕) and pà (怕). However, there has been little research analyzing the differences between the two words. Therefore, this study aims to distinguish kǒngpà and pà when both… read more