✍publications

Some recent works (many as drafts):

• 1. When the Shanghainese tse and keh were replaced by the Mandarin le2, outline.

  2. Pragmatics in Translation, in progress.

  3. Non-demonstrative Inference and the accommodation of conditional reasoning: on the role of some Chinese quasi-logical terms, outline.

  4. Covid-19 and the Chinese Community in London, submitted. January, 2022. SOAS, London.

  5. What Simple Figures Tell us about Chinese Covid-19 Pandemic Discourse, in progress. Nov. 2021, SOAS, London.

  6. Jiang, Yan. and Wang, Wen. (2021) Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu, in Adékúnmi Ọlátúnjí & Joseph Lovestrand (eds.) SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 20 (2021): 95−120.

  7. Studies on Chinese grammar in UK, SOAS, London. (in progress)

  8. Jiang, Yan. (2020) Pragmatics. Chapter in a textbook introducing linguistics. [in Chinese], submitted

  9. Jiang, Yan. (2019) Revisiting Alfred Bloom's Analysis of Chinese Counterfactuals. Talk given at International Pragmatics Association Annual Meeting. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. June 9-14, 2019.

  10. Jiang, Yan. (2019) Falsifying Counterfactuals. Talk presented at Formal Ways to Meaning in Chinese, Beijing Language University, June 22-23, 2019, Beijing.

  11. Jiang, Yan. (2019) Tension between the Distributivity of 'dou' in Relative clause and the Referentiality of the Head Noun. ms. Paper prepared for International Conference on Chinese Compound Sentences. Central Normal University, Wuhan, June 29-30, 2019. [did not make it]

  12. Jiang, Yan. and Wang, Wen. (2019) On Tense and Aspect in Early Shanghainese. Paper presented at Studies on Early Chinese Dialects. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, June 14, 2019. To appear in Language & Linguistics, 2022.

  13. Jiang, Yan. and Wang, Wen. (2019) Speech verbs in Shanghainese. Paper presented at 5th South East Dialects in China. Sun Yat-sun University, Guangzhou, June 15-16, 2019.

  14. Jiang, Yan. (2019) The Formal Analysis of Meaning. Chapter 1 in Jiang, Yan. Discourse Semantics.

  15. JIANG, Yan. (2019) Ways for expressing counterfactual conditionals in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics Vanguard, De Gruyter. [final editing] LINGVAN: vol:5 (2019), iss:S3

  16. Yuan, Ying and Jiang, Yan. (2018) Rhetorical Figures: The Argumentative “Ornament”, in Linguistics and Literature Studies. Vol. 6(5), pp. 211 - 218, DOI: 10.13189/lls.2018.060503 (click the paper title to download the full paper)

  17. Yuan, Ying and Harris, Randy Allen and Jiang, Yan (2017) Stasis Salience and the Enthymemic Thesis. Language and Semiotic Studies (3) 3, pp 103-124.

  18. JIANG, Yan. (2019) Chinese and Counterfactual Reasoning, Routledge Handbook of Applied Chinese Linguistics.

  19. JIANG, Yan. (2019) Chinese rhetoric, Routledge Handbook of Applied Chinese Linguistics.

  20. JIANG, Yan. (2017) Scalar implicature, Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Vol. 3, 664-668.

  21. JIANG, Yan. (2017) Presupposition triggers, Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Vol. 3, 455-460.

  22. JIANG, Yan. In Memory of Dr. LIAO Qiuzhong, Linguistics Today. (in Chinese) December 16th, 2016.

  23. JIANG, Yan. and WANG, Yuying (2016) Counterfactual Subjunctive Assertions in Shanghai Dialect, in Commemorative Essays for Professor Yuen Ren Chao: Father of Modern Chinese Linguistics. Crane Publishing, Taiwan. 193-201.

Earlier works:

1. JIANG, Yan. (2013) A Formal Characterization of Explicature and its Consequences to Explicating in Chinese. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, Vol. 8.2. 241-253. Equinox. [in English] [.pdf version View]

2. JIANG, Yan. (2014) On the Lexical Meaning of Conditional Connectives in Chinese. Chinese Lexical Semantics: 15th Workshop, CLSW 2014 Macao, China, June 9–12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, (eds.) Xinchun SU and Tingting HE, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. LNAI 8922 , 43-54. [in English] [.pdf version View ]

3. JIANG, Yan. (2015) Pragmatics. Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language, Publisher: Routledge, (ed.) Sin Wai CHAN [in English] [.pdf vrsion View ]

4. JIANG, Yan. (2016) Deixis and Anaphora. Cambridge Chinese Reference Grammar, Chapter: 16. Cambridge University Press, (eds.) Chu-ren HUANG, Dingxu SHI

5. Pan, Haihua. and Jiang, Yan. (2015) The Bound Variable Hierarchy and Donkey Anaphora in Chinese. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2015(2).

6. He, Chuansheng. and Jiang, Yan. (2010) Type shifting, Chinese hen+N structure, and implications for semantic parameters, Lingua 04/2011; 121(5):890–905.

Published Books:

1. JIANG, Yan. and PAN, Haihua. (2005) Introduction to Formal Semantics. Edition: 2, Publisher: Chinese Academy of Social Science Press, ISBN: 7500420765. [in Chinese] (first edition in paperback and hardback formats, 1998, revised edition with a new cover, paperback only 2005, reprint with a newer cover, paperback only, 2013) [Book page]

2. JIANG, Yan. and SHI, Dingxu. (2007) Glamorous Shanghainese. DOI: 10.13140/2.1.2771.9687 Edition: 1, Publisher: Radio Television Hong Kong and Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. [in Chinese] [.pdf version View textbook Download Textbook On-line Course]

3. JIANG, Yan. (2008) Authorized Chinese translation of Dan Sperber & Deirdre Wilson (1995) Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Edition: 1, Publisher: Beijing: China Social Science Press. ISBN 978-7-5004-7061-8/H. [in Chinese] （first impression in 2008, paperback; second impression in 2015 with a new cover, paperback） [Book page]

4. JIANG, Yan. (2011) Approaching Formal Pragmatics. Edition: 1, Publisher: Shanghai Educational Publishing House, Editor: Yan Jiang, ISBN: 9787544431729. (Author of six chapters out of 14)[in Chinese] [Book page]

5. COBB, Margaret. and JIANG, Yan. (eds.) (1993) SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 3. View Contents.

A complete list can be found through my Researchgate. Most of my works have .pdf versions there.

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