Selected Publications

        Yang. J. (2024). Saying “sorry” in online language: A pragmatic analysis of apologies posted on a Chinese online shopping website, Pragmatics and Society  (Forthcoming).       

          Yang. J. (2023). Learning Strategies for Pragmatic Routines by Learners of L2 Chinese. In Sh. Li (Ed), Pragmatics of Chinese as a Second Language (pp. 209-232). Bristol, UK; Tonawanda, NY: Multilingual Matters.·          

          Yang, J. (2020). American Students’ Cultural Adjustment in China: Experiences and Coping Strategies. Journal of International Students, 10(1), 106-123.

         Yang, J. (2019). Constraints on the collocational behaviors of Chinese near-synonyms: a corpus-based analysis. In Y. Xiao and L. Tsung (Eds.), Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives (pp. 155-176). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

          Yang, J. & Yin, C. X. (2018). Learning Chinese colloquialisms through mobile technology. Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, 9 (1), 35-47.

          Yang, J., Yin, C. X. & Wang, W. (2018). Flipping the classroom in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Language Learning & Technology, 22(1), 16–26.

          Yang, J. (2016). CFL learner’s recognition and production of pragmatic routine formulae. Chinese as a Second Language, 51(1), 29-61.

          Yang, J. (2016). Dialogue recitation and CFL learners’ production of formulaic expressions. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 19, 117-143.

          Yang, J. & Yin, C. X. (2014). Fostering personalized student learning outside the classroom: Peer tutoring for college Chinese instruction. International Chinese Language Education (Guoji Hanyu Jiaoyu), 42(1), 85-96.

          Yang, J. (2008).  How to say 'No' in Chinese: a pragmatic study of refusal strategies in five TV series. In M. Chan & H. Kang (eds.), Proceedings of The 20th North American Conference of Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20) (pp. 1041-1058). Columbus, Ohio.

          Yang, J. & Luo, Zh. Sh. (2005). Chinese anaphora resolution with genetic algorithms. Proceedings of International Conference on Chinese Computing 2005, 74-81.

          Yang, J. (2004). Potential complements in Kunming dialect. Journal of Yunnan Normal University, 36: 604-607.

          Yang, J. & Luo, Zh. Sh. (2004). A Corpus-based Resolution for NP anaphora zhe/na+NP in Chinese. Chinese Academic Forum, 12, 12-20.