Binmei Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Binmei Liu is involved.
Articles
2020 Social class, language attitudes, and language use: A case study of Chinese university students Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1, pp. 5–30 | Article
Few previous studies have examined the impact of social class on language attitudes and language use in mainland China. A total of 215 questionnaires were collected from a university in China for this study. The participants were classified into four social classes: upper middle class, middle… read more
2018 Language attitudes by university students in mainland China: Results of a survey in three cities Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:2, pp. 345–368 | Article
Through a questionnaire survey of non-local university students, this study examined direct language attitudes of English, Putonghua, and local dialects in the first-tier city Guangzhou, second-tier city Tianjin, and small city Yan’an. The significance of this study lies in two aspects: few of… read more
2017 The use of discourse markers but and so by native English speakers and Chinese speakers of English Pragmatics 27:4, pp. 479–506 | Article
Previous studies have found that but and so occur frequently in native and non-native English speakers’ speech and that they are easy to acquire by non-native English speakers. The current study compared ideational and pragmatic functions of but and so by native and non-native speakers of… read more