Yaxin Wu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yaxin Wu is involved.
Articles
2024 The DIG Mandarin Conversations (DMC) Corpus: Mundane phone calls in Mandarin Chinese as resources for research and teaching Chinese Language and Discourse 15:1, pp. 105–141 | Article
This paper introduces the DMC Corpus – a newly collected dataset of 150 mundane cell phone calls from Mainland China in Mandarin Chinese (audio and detailed transcripts) – which is now publicly available for use in research and teaching. In this report, we first describe the constitution and… read more
2013 The calculability of communicative intentions through pragmatic reasoning Pragmatics & Cognition 21:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
We provide conceptual and empirical support for the core tenet in pragmatic theory that speakers make their communicative intention about the pragmatic meaning of their utterances recognizable to hearers. First, we attribute skepticism about this tenet to conceptualizing communicative intentions as… read more
The Mandarin rising-intoned Éi ( 诶 ) particle in third position: A change-of-state token marking an epistemic discrepancy Functions of Language: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper offers an analysis of rising-intoned éi in Mandarin conversation, specifically as it is produced in the wake of question-answer sequences. Examining the particle’s use both as a stand-alone unit implementing its own action, and as a preface to additional turn components and the… read more