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Director
Director
Xiaoting Li / 李晓婷
Professor of Chinese Linguistics
Affiliation: Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
Research interests: Chinese linguistics, Interactional Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Multimodality
E-mail: xiaoting.li@uablerta.ca
Website: https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/xml
Lab Coordinator
Lab Coordinator
Xiaoyun Wang / 汪小韫
Ph.D. student
Affiliation: Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
Research interests: Classroom interaction, L2 interactional competence, Multimodality
Email: xiaoyun@ualberta.ca
Personal website: xiaoyunwang.com
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiaoyun-Wang-13
Members
Members
Yaqiong Liu / 刘娅琼
Ph.D., Professor
Affiliation: Shanghai Maritime University, P.R.China (2004-present)
Education:
Ph.D. at Fudan University, P.R.China (2010)
Postdoctoral fellow at Shanghai Normal University, P.R.China (2015-2017)
Visiting scholar at University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2008-2009)
Visiting scholar at University of Alberta, CA (2016-2017)
Research Interests:
Lexical and syntactic phenomena in modern Chinese spoken language from the perspectives of function and social interaction
Email: liuyq@shmtu.edu.cn
Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yaqiong-Liu
Yvonne Tse Crepaldi / 谢芳
Postdoctoral fellow
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Education: Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research interests: parent-child interaction, healthcare communication, multilingualism
Email: yvonne.crepaldi@me.com
Personal website: https://yvonnecrepaldi.wixsite.com/mysite-1
Hongyue Wen / 文虹月
Ph.D. student
Affiliation: School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China.
Education: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Nanjing Normal University, China.
Research interests: Interactional Linguistics, Chinese Multimodal Interaction
Email: 15574947416@163.com
Current Project:
Topic transitions in Chinese Conversational Communication, the Evaluative Stance Adjustment in Chinese Conversational Communication
Recent Publications:
Wen, Hongyue & Sun, Daogong. (2025) A Multimodal Interaction Study of Topic Changes Following Questions Guided by Pragmatic Resources. Modern Foreign Languages, (2): 159-171.
文虹月，孙道功. (2025) 语用资源主导下问句后话题转换的多模态互动研究，《现代外语》第2期，159-171。(CSSCI)
Yan Zhou / 周燕
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Affiliation: Northwestern University
Education: Ph.D. in East Asian Linguistics, UCLA
Research interests: Classroom interaction, Political communication, Virtual interaction.
Email: yan.zhou@northwestern.edu
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yan-Zhou
Prior Members
Prior Members
Yue Guan
Yue Guan
Postdoctoral Fellow of the HK PolyU-PKU Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics; Lecturer
Peking University
China
E-mail: guanyue92@sina.com
Shui Li
Shui Li
Ph. D.
Peking University
E-mail: lishui@pku.edu.cn
Zilai Wang
Zilai Wang
MA, Department of East Asian Studies
University of Alberta
E-mail: zilai@ualberta.ca
Qi'e (Cheer) Wu
Qi'e (Cheer) Wu
MA, Department of East Asian Studies
University of Alberta
E-mail: qie1@ualberta.ca
Xinlei Yang
Xinlei Yang
MA, Department of East Asian Studies
University of Alberta
E-mail: xinlei5@ualberta.ca
Yining (Rico) Yang
Yining (Rico) Yang
MA, Department of East Asian Studies
University of Alberta
E-mail: yining5@ualberta.ca
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