Wei Wang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wei Wang is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798
Titles
Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres
Edited by Wei Wang
Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language per se, or language use in reaction to the immediate settings, to the… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 13] 2020. xiii, 233 pp.
Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China
Edited by Linda Tsung and Wei Wang
Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus of scholarship. This book examines contemporary Chinese discourse and social practice in China with a focus on the role that language plays in the… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 4] 2015. xvi, 223 pp.
Current Trends in Chinese Discourse
Edited by Wei Wang and Linda Tsung
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 5:1 (2014) v, 97 pp.
2021 Perfective aspect and perfect aspect: The case of Russian and Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8:2, pp. 177–203 | Article
The “perfective” (Chinese term: wánzhěngtǐ) and the “perfect”(Chinese term: wánchéngtǐ) seem to be two different terms that are distinguished by definition. But in the description of actual languages, the boundary between them is not clear. The use of these two terms in many literatures is very… read more
2021 The question-response system in Mandarin conversation Pragmatics 31:4, pp. 589–616 | Article
This article provides an overview of the question-response system in Mandarin Chinese from a conversation analytic perspective. Based on 403 question-response sequences from natural conversations, this study discusses the grammatical coding of Mandarin questions, social actions accomplished by… read more
2021 Change and continuity in Hurstville’s Chinese restaurants: An ethnographic linguistic landscape study in Sydney Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World, Huebner, Thom (ed.), pp. 175–203 | Article
This paper investigates the Linguistic Landscape of Chinese restaurants in Hurstville, a Chinese-concentrated suburb in Sydney, Australia. It draws on Blommaert and Maly’s (2016) Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis (ELLA) and Scollon and Scollon’s geosemiotics (2003). Our data set… read more
2020 Chapter 1. Researching the Chinese language and discourse: Past and present Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres, Wang, Wei (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 6. From matrix clause to turn expansion: The emergence of wo juede ‘I feel/think’ in Mandarin conversational interaction Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of action, Maschler, Yael, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik (eds.), pp. 151–182 | Chapter
One way complex clauses manifest themselves is through a combination of a matrix clause and a complement clause. However, matrix clauses as represented by constructions such as I think have been widely reported to undergo grammaticization, whereby they become a marker indicating the speaker’s… read more
2019 Chapter 12. Being a Kam in China: Ethnic identity in narratives Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun and Linda Tsung (eds.), pp. 245–263 | Chapter
In light of the growing interest in investigating the ethnic minority Kam people in China, this paper offers a sociolinguistic analysis to explore how Kam people’s identity is represented and negotiated in spoken narratives with outside researchers. Drawing on sociolinguistic approaches to identity… read more
2018 Discourse uses and prosodic properties of ranhou in spontaneous Mandarin conversation Chinese Language and Discourse 9:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
This paper examines two emerging discourse uses, topic-shifting and trail-off, of a temporal conjunction ranhou in spontaneous Mandarin conversation. Unlike traditional approaches that focus exclusively on such textual functions as temporality and consequentiality of ranhou, the present study… read more
2016 Prosody and discourse functions of ranhou 然后: With implications for teaching Mandarin conjunctions at the discourse level Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning, Tao, Hongyin (ed.), pp. 145–168 | Article
This paper attempts to integrate linguistic research with language teaching, taking ranhou as a case study. It first explores the discourse functions of ranhou. Three functions have thus been identified, i.e. TCU extension, turn continuation and new topic initiation. Then, it examines the prosodic… read more
2015 Co-construction of migrant workers’ identities on a TV talk show in China Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China, Tsung, Linda and Wei Wang (eds.), pp. 125–142 | Article
This study examines how identities of migrant workers (i.e. nongmingong) have
been constructed and represented on a TV talk show program in China, called
“China’s Nongmingong”, launched by Guizhou Satellite TV (GZSTV) in China
in 2007. Drawing on narrative theories concerning interactions between… read more
2015 Contemporary Chinese Discourse from Sociolinguistic Perspectives Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China, Tsung, Linda and Wei Wang (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2014 Analysing Chinese discourse in the new era Current Trends in Chinese Discourse, Wang, Wei and Linda Tsung (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
2013 Review of Xiufang (2011): 词汇化：汉语双音词的衍生 和发展 Chinese Language and Discourse 4:1, pp. 149–152 | Review
2008 Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia: A contrastive genre study Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric, Connor, Ulla, Ed Nagelhout and William Rozycki (eds.), pp. 169–191 | Article
Newspaper articles are a common genre that has been examined in contrastive rhetoric research to explore its rhetorical and linguistic patterns. However, this chapter aims to go beyond this and to explore how the writers position themselves, manipulate the topic and address their readers by the use… read more
2004 A contrastive analysis of letters to the editor in Chinese and English Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27:1, pp. 72–88 | Article
This study examines similarities and differences between English and Chinese letters to the editor on newspapers from the perspectives of contrastive rhetoric and genre theory. Generic structures, rhetorical structures, and logico-semantic relations of 20 letters to the editor (10 in Chinese and… read more