Yan Gu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yan Gu plays a role.
Articles
2024 Explain with , rather than explain to: How explainees shape their own learning Interaction Studies 25:2, pp. 245–256 | Article
Research about explanation processes is gaining relevance because of the increased popularity of artificial systems required to explain their function or outcome. Following an interactive approach, not only explainers but also explainees contribute to successful interactions. However, little is… read more
2022 Chapter 10. Time in Chinese hands: Gesture and sign Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión (eds.), pp. 209–232 | Chapter
This chapter examines how Chinese people (Mandarin monolinguals; Mandarin-English bilinguals; deaf Chinese Sign Language (CSL) signers; Mandarin learners of CSL) use gestures and signs to creatively represent time. All groups spatialize time on the lateral, vertical, and sagittal axes, but… read more
2014 Information status and L2 prosody: A study of reference maintenance in Chinese learners of Dutch Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics, Caspers, Johanneke, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten (eds.), pp. 120–130 | Article
When referring, speakers vary prosody according to the information status of
the referent. There is some work on L2 learners’ use of prosody in encoding
given and new information but not necessarily in the context of reference maintenance.
The current study investigates how Chinese learners of… read more