Lianrui Yang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lianrui Yang is involved.

Journal

Journal of Second Language Studies

General Editor: Boping Yuan

ISSN 2542-3835 | E‑ISSN 2542‑3843

Wang, Yumeng, Lu Li and Lianrui Yang 2025 Review of He (2025): Weibo news package: A systemic functional perspective on the text-reader relationship Functions of Language 32:3, pp. 377–381 | Review

Wang, Zhihong, Lianrui Yang, Ying Chen and Xukui Li 2024 Linguistic complexity development in the writings of Chinese EFL learners across three proficiency levels Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Studies, Liu, Dilin, Xiaofei Lu and Isaiah WonHo Yoo (eds.), pp. 227–266 | Article

This study uses a corpus-based method to analyze the developmental paths of syntactic and lexical complexity in Chinese EFL learners across three proficiency levels. It examines six pieces of English essays written in one semester under school instruction. The goal is to identify both group… read more

Pei, Xiaoyu, Lianrui Yang, Ying Chen and Brent Wolter 2023 Chinese EFL learners’ apology strategies: A multimodal perspective Applied Pragmatics 5:1, pp. 64–85 | Article

This paper presents a multimodal analysis of apologies performed by Chinese EFL learners at two proficiency levels by considering their use of both verbal and nonverbal (i.e., gestures and gaze) strategies. The results showed that both groups used IFID (illocutionary force indicating device,… read more

Yan, Haijuan, Lianrui Yang and Shifa Chen 2019 R. W. Gibbs, Jr. Metaphor wars: Conceptual metaphors in human life  Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 295–301 | Review