Lei Yang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lei Yang is involved.
Articles
2020 汉语女性第三人称指代词 “她”字的发展、使用和教学 [The development, function, and teaching of Mandarin third-person female pronoun “ta”] Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 55:2, pp. 91–102 | Article
第三人称指代词的基本功能是替代一个实体专用名词,避免表述的累赘重复。在1919年新文化运动之前,汉语中的“他”一直是一个中性第三人称指代词,既可指代男性,也可指代女性, 还可指代一切其他事物。汉语女性第三人称指代词的 “她” 直到二十世纪早期才出现。在现代社会中,“她” 字笔画简单,运用易教易学,但是为人所忽略的是由人字旁的“他”到女字旁的“她”紧密联系着近代中国社会和语言的变化。本文旨在结合文化史、语言学和语言认知来描述女性第三人称指代词在书面语、口语中的发展。通过讨论中国早期作品中关于女性人物的叙述,分析新文化运动后“她”字的产生、确立和使用,作者认为在现代汉语中,“她”字的存在, read more
2020 Comprehensible narratives and connected grammar: Textbook design for classical Chinese as a foreign language Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 55:3, pp. 193–207 | Article
Classical Chinese is an integral component of the Chinese language curriculum at many American universities. However, which texts should be taught and how their grammar should be introduced in a textbook, are questions that have seldom been discussed. This article focuses on the selection of… read more

