Xuehua Xiang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xuehua Xiang is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798
Title
Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese marketplace
Xuehua Xiang
Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China. Using a collection of data that span nearly 20 years from ethnographic fieldwork, Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 14] 2021. xii, 217 pp.
Articles
2019 A comparative study of the restrictive markings of mandarin Jiù, Cái, and Zhǐ Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century, Stern, Nancy, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler (eds.), pp. 259–280 | Chapter
This study analyzes Mandarin 就 (jiù), 才(cái), and 只(zhǐ), all of which communicate messages of restrictiveness and may be translated as ‘just,’ ‘only,’ ‘no more,’ ‘no other,’ and other such expressions of small quantity and restriction. The study shows that the three particles distinguish distinct… read more
2012 Constructing the ‘tellables’: An English–Chinese comparative study of question–word interrogatives in interviews of celebrities on talk shows Chinese Language and Discourse 3:2, pp. 247–272 | Article
Based on twelve celebrity interviews in Mandarin Chinese and American English, broadcast in a range of talk-radio/television programs in the U.S. and China, the current study is a comparative analysis of interviewers’ questioning practices and the cultural underpinnings of those questions. The… read more