Rong Yan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rong Yan is involved.
Articles
2025 Understanding unintended and unsuccessful ironies among Chinese primary school children: Age difference and impact of interlocutors’ social status Perspectives on Chinese Language Acquisition, Su, Henghua (ed.), pp. 217–241 | Article
Despite the numerous studies on irony understanding, much remains unknown about how children comprehend unintended and unsuccessful ironies and the role of interlocutors’ social status in the recognition of ironic intention. The present study aimed to address this gap through randomly selecting… read more
2025 Identification and classification of implicit speech acts among Chinese children in middle childhood Pragmatics & Cognition 32:2, pp. 354–381 | Article
Despite the numerous studies on the perception of speech acts, very little is known about how children in middle childhood perceive implicit speech acts (ISA) across different ages. To this end, referring to the research paradigm described by Holtgraves (2005, 2008), this study aimed to examine… read more