Xiaoting Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xiaoting Li is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798
Title
Multimodality, Interaction and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation
Xiaoting Li
One major feature of conversation is that people take turns to speak. Based on audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring Mandarin conversation, this book explores the role of syntax, prosody, body movements as well as their interplay in turn organization in the temporal unfolding of action… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 3] 2014. xi, 265 pp.
2024 Managing progressivity and solidarity with nage shenme ‘that what’ in Mandarin interaction New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, Selting, Margret and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.), pp. 220–244 | Chapter
Nage shenme ‘that what’ is a fixed pronoun
phrase commonly used as a “filler” in Mandarin. This study examines the interactional functions of nage shenmes (NSs) in face-to-face Mandarin interaction. An examination of the data shows that NSs appear in a variety of turn positions.… read more
2019 Chapter 5. Some interactional functions of Yinwei-clauses in Mandarin Chinese conversation Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun and Linda Tsung (eds.), pp. 81–103 | Chapter
Yinwei ‘because’ is a causal conjunction or preposition indicating a causal relation between two clauses, NPs and other discourse units in Mandarin Chinese. Building on the previous research, this study examines how yinwei is used by conversational participants to organize talk and accomplish… read more
2016 Some interactional uses of syntactically incomplete turns in Mandarin conversation Conversation Analysis in Chinese, Thompson, Sandra A. and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu (eds.), pp. 237–271 | Article
In everyday conversation, sometimes a speaker may not complete his/her turn, and the recipients do not treat it as problematic. This paper investigates this type of syntactically incomplete turns (henceforth, SITs) in Mandarin conversation. Specifically, this study examines how SITs are used and… read more
2013 Language and the body in the construction of units in Mandarin face-to-face interaction Units of Talk – Units of Action, Szczepek Reed, Beatrice and Geoffrey Raymond (eds.), pp. 343–376 | Article
This article explores the interrelatedness between language and the body in the delimitation of multi-TCU turns in Mandarin face-to-face interaction. Based on video recordings of Mandarin conversation, this study describes a recurrent pattern of body movements: forward lean and return of the body.… read more