Yan Jiang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yan Jiang is involved.
Articles
2026 COVID-19 and the Chinese community in London: Discourse circulation, semantic shifts, and transnational communication in a public health crisis Chinese Language and Discourse: Online-First Articles | Article
Drawing on findings from ten interviews conducted in 2021, this study examines how members of the British Chinese community in London accessed and interpreted COVID-19 pandemic information, the barriers they encountered in institutional health communication, and the shifting meanings of health… read more
2024 Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:2, pp. 251–280 | Article
This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has sentence-final particles tse and keh that have tense-marking functions. We review works by Qian (2006; 2009), Chao (1926) and Li, Thompson & Thompson (1982) and analyze Shanghainese missionary texts on the use of these SFPs. Through a… read more