Xianming Fang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xianming Fang is involved.
Articles
2025 Pragmatic research in English as an Asian lingua franca: A systematic review Applied Pragmatics 7:1, pp. 82–108 | Article
In this globalization era, English plays an important role as a regional lingua franca in Asia. Recent years have seen a rapid development in pragmatic research in the field of English as an Asian lingua franca (Asian ELF). This study provides a systematic review of pragmatic research in Asian… read more
2023 Chapter 4. Multimodality in refusals in English as a lingua franca Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 101–129 | Chapter
This study investigates how multimodal cues are used for rapport management in refusals in the context of English as a lingua franca (ELF). Ten Chinese and ten Indonesian speakers were put in pairs and conducted role-plays in relation to requests and refusals. After the role-plays, they had… read more