Yaqiong Cui
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yaqiong Cui is involved.
Articles
2022 Chapter 2. An investigation of the use of the multifunctional particle ‑ le by second language learners of Mandarin Chinese Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 15–42 | Chapter
The most widely studied aspect marker in Chinese is ‑le. In addition to functioning as a perfective aspect marker to indicate action completion, it can also serve as a sentence final particle to indicate a currently relevant state. It is obligatory in some situations but optional in others. And,… read more
2021 The use of le 了 in Mandarin Chinese oral discourse: A sociolinguistic perspective Chinese Language and Discourse 12:2, pp. 135–157 | Article
le is the mostly widely studied aspect marker in Chinese. In addition to perfective aspect marker to indicate action completion, le can also serve as a sentence-final particle to indicate a currently relevant state. This study investigates how Chinese native speakers use le in oral… read more
2016 Reflexivity and transnational habitus: The case of a ‘poor’ affluent Chinese international student Reflexivity in Late Modernity: Accounts from linguistic ethnographies of youth, Pérez-Milans, Miguel (ed.), pp. 173–198 | Article
Following Sayer’s (2010) examination of reflexivity and habitus, we focus on the transnational habitus (Darvin & Norton 2015) of Aaron, a Chinese international student at a U.S. university. Specifically, we examine how he wrestled with being identified as an ESL learner despite having attended a… read more


