Kawai Chui
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kawai Chui is involved.
2026 Self-repair in Chinese, Russian, and Czech narrative discourse Interactional Problems and Their Resolutions in Natural Discourse in Languages in Taiwan, Chang, Miao-Hsia (ed.), pp. 280–307 | Article
This study investigated repetition, replacement, and morphological repairs in narrative discourse across Taiwan Mandarin, Russian, and Czech to identify common and language-specific self-repair patterns in sister and non-sister languages. Repair rate, recycling scope, and morphosyntactic… read more
2026 Do gestures compensate for language deficiency in interactional discourse? Interactional Problems and Their Resolutions in Natural Discourse in Languages in Taiwan, Chang, Miao-Hsia (ed.), pp. 308–336 | Article
This study investigated speech obstacles of Taiwanese Mandarin-speaking late talkers at 24 months of age by analyzing their use of gestures independently or alongside speech to resolve communicative challenges, compared to age-matched typically developing children. Spontaneous gesture and speech… read more
2018 Spatial conceptualization of sequence time in language and gesture Gesture 17:1, pp. 176–195 | Article
The study investigates the consistency and divergence between language and gesture in the expression of spatial orientations in the metaphorical conceptualization of sequence time, and the influence of the diversity in the reading and writing practices used in Taiwan on the spatialization of… read more
2012 Cross-linguistic comparison of representations of motion in language and gesture Gesture 12:1, pp. 40–61 | Article
In the linguistic-gestural representation of motion events, the past studies showed that manner and path in English are mentioned within one clause, and the two components can be represented together in one gesture. In Turkish and Japanese, they are expressed separately in two clauses, and two… read more
2011 Do gestures compensate for the omission of motion expression in speech? Chinese Language and Discourse 2:2, pp. 153–167 | Article
The present study investigates whether and to what extent motion-event gestures compensate for the omission of linguistic expression in Chinese discourse and across different languages to understand language-specificity/language-universality and the coordination of motion information across the two… read more
2003 Is the correlation between grounding and transitivity universal? Studies in Language 27:2, pp. 221–244 | Article
This paper studies the correlation between grounding and transitivity in Chinese narratives and conversations based on the ten Transitivity features proposed by Hopper and Thompson (1980), to examine the universality of the correlation across different spoken discourse and different languages.… read more