Demei Yang

• “Am I Truly Depressed or Just Pretending To Be?” A Discourse-Analytical Approach to Online Illness Narratives by People Living With Depression on Zhihu

  Open Access•Rongji Zhang, Demei Yang et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2026

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  This study employs an integrated discourse-analytic approach, synergizing semantic macro-analysis with the appraisal framework in Systemic Functional Linguistics, to investigate how individuals with depression in China struggle to make sense of their illness through narratives shared on Zhihu. Our analysis identifies three recurrent thematic stages in this sense-making process. The first, “Am I truly depressed or not,” is featured by personal emo…

• Declining returns of secondary vocational education on subjective class identity across generations and time periods

  Open Access•Penghui Wu, Peiheng Wu et al.•ARTICLE•Humanities and Social Sciences…•2025

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  This study explores the association of secondary vocational education (SVE) on subjective class identification in China, focusing on comparisons with compulsory and academic high school education, and analyzing regional and historical variations. Using data from the 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2021 waves of the China General Social Survey (CGSS), this study analyzes 13,736 individuals aged 26 to 58. To address selection bias and better estimate t…

• Epistemic Modality and Projection in Argumentative Writing

  Open Access•Demei Yang, Xiangmin Zeng•ARTICLE•Theory and Practice in Language…•2021

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  In academic writings, writers are supposed to properly express the degree of certainty and doubt. Especially in the argumentative text, writers are required to give appropriate arguments and project previous theories or ideas. Epistemic modality and projection are concerned with how writers express their degree of certainty and doubt, which is important for a qualified argumentative text writer. Through comparison of 30 pieces of argumentative es…

• Epistemic Modality and Projection in Argumentative Writing

  Open Access•Demei Yang, Xiangmin Zeng•ARTICLE•Theory and Practice in Language…•2021

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  In academic writings, writers are supposed to properly express the degree of certainty and doubt. Especially in the argumentative text, writers are required to give appropriate arguments and project previous theories or ideas. Epistemic modality and projection are concerned with how writers express their degree of certainty and doubt, which is important for a qualified argumentative text writer. Through comparison of 30 pieces of argumentative es…

• Declining returns of secondary vocational education on subjective class identity across generations and time periods

  Open Access•Penghui Wu, Peiheng Wu et al.•ARTICLE•Humanities and Social Sciences…•2025

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  This study explores the association of secondary vocational education (SVE) on subjective class identification in China, focusing on comparisons with compulsory and academic high school education, and analyzing regional and historical variations. Using data from the 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2021 waves of the China General Social Survey (CGSS), this study analyzes 13,736 individuals aged 26 to 58. To address selection bias and better estimate t…

• “Am I Truly Depressed or Just Pretending To Be?” A Discourse-Analytical Approach to Online Illness Narratives by People Living With Depression on Zhihu

  Open Access•Rongji Zhang, Demei Yang et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2026

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  This study employs an integrated discourse-analytic approach, synergizing semantic macro-analysis with the appraisal framework in Systemic Functional Linguistics, to investigate how individuals with depression in China struggle to make sense of their illness through narratives shared on Zhihu. Our analysis identifies three recurrent thematic stages in this sense-making process. The first, “Am I truly depressed or not,” is featured by personal emo…

Artificial Intelligence (2 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Algorithm (1 obra) · Argumentative (1 obra) · Art (1 obra) · Certainty (1 obra) · Constructive (1 obra) · Demographic economics (1 obra) · Denial (1 obra) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 obra)