Yingying Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yingying Liu is involved.
Articles
2025 A study on the developmental features and stance construction of shell nouns by Chinese EFL learners Australian Review of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles, pp. 841–866 | Article
The unique semantic characteristics of shell nouns (SNs) endow them with a rich interpersonal function in academic discourse. However, little attention has been paid to the developing features of SNs and their lexico-grammatical patterns in Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners.… read more
2024 Examining longitudinal changes in citation practices: A corpus-based analysis of L2 academic writing Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Studies, Liu, Dilin, Xiaofei Lu and Isaiah WonHo Yoo (eds.), pp. 267–294 | Article
While previous research has revealed the form and function features of citations across diverse disciplines, writer groups of varying expertise, and academic genres, limited attention has been given to the developmental trajectories in citation practices among novice academic writers. To address… read more