Xiaorui Liang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xiaorui Liang is involved.
Article
2025 A study on the developmental features and stance construction of shell nouns by Chinese EFL learners Australian Review of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles, pp. 841–866 | Article
The unique semantic characteristics of shell nouns (SNs) endow them with a rich interpersonal function in academic discourse. However, little attention has been paid to the developing features of SNs and their lexico-grammatical patterns in Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners.… read more