Jia Yang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jia Yang is involved.
Articles
2025 Saying “sorry” in online language: A pragmatic analysis of apologies posted on a Chinese online shopping website Pragmatics and Society 16:3, pp. 333–356 | Article
This study conducts a pragmatic analysis of 192 apologies that were made by retailers in response to customer complaints posted on a leading Chinese online shopping website. Each collected apology is coded for the components of the apology and the strategies used to build rapport. The choice of… read more
2019 Chapter 8. Constraints on the collocational behaviors of Chinese near-synonyms: A corpus-based analysis Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun and Linda Tsung (eds.), pp. 155–176 | Chapter
This paper reports a corpus-based study to examine how Chinese near-synonyms choose their typical collocates. Near-synonyms commonly misused by English-speaking learners of Chinese were selected for analysis. Results obtained from the corpora (the Chinese Internet Corpus by the University of Leeds… read more
2016 CFL learners’ recognition and production of pragmatic routine formulae Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 51:1, pp. 29–61 | Article
A pragmatic routine formula is any expression with a stable form that is commonly repeated in the routinized social interactions of a given culture. Previous research has reported that such pragmatic routine formulae are often underused by foreign language learners, even when they have been… read more