Yaoyao Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yaoyao Chen is involved.
Articles
2024 Gesture in contexts of verbal negation in Chinese Gesture 23:1/2, pp. 1–25 | Article
East Asian languages and cultures are known to show substantial differences from European ones, including in terms of how negation is expressed. The present study considers how gestures relate to the expression of verbal negation by speakers of Mandarin Chinese. Based on around 400 minutes of… read more
2023 Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning: The case of the circular gesture International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 28:2, pp. 172–201 | Article
The theories and methods in corpus linguistics (CL) have had an impact on numerous areas in applied linguistics. However, the interface between CL and multimodal speech-gesture studies remains underexplored. One fundamental question is whether it is possible, and even appropriate, to apply the… read more