Yifang Yuan, PhD Student

About

Yifang has been a Graduate Research Assistant and Lab Manager for the Corpus Pragmatics and Prosody Lab under Dr. Nancy Hedberg. Her dissertation is titled “Asking questions in context: Evidence, social relations and question-form choice in Mandarin Chinese conversation.”

Interests

Syntax-pragmatics interface; World Englishes; interrogativity; discourse markers; corpus linguistics; applied linguistics

Education

2019  MA in Linguistics, University of British Columbia 

Publications

MA Thesis: Response markers in Mandarin Chinese conversation: a corpus-based case study of shi, dui, xing, hao and the variants of shi