Xuehua Xiang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3824109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xuehua Xiang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xuehua |
| FAMILY NAME | Xiang |
| SIGNATURE | XIANG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4220-4557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructing the ‘tellables’
Based on twelve celebrity interviews in Mandarin Chinese and American English, broadcast in a range of talk-radio/television programs in the U.S. and China, the current study is a comparative analysis of interviewers’ questioning practices and the cultural underpinnings of those questions. The analysis focuses on the interviewers’ question-word interrogatives in the discourse context of multiple Turn Construction Units (multi-TCUs). The study dem…
External information processing versus property ascertaining
Drawing on naturally occurring conversation, the present study examines three utterance-final
Statements as questions in interviews with celebrities
Linguistic and Cultural Characteristics of Domain Names of the Top Fifty Most-Visited Websites in the US and China
The current study is a cross-linguistic, cross-cultural analysis of the domain names of the fifty most-visited websites of Internet-based businesses in the US and China (100 domain names examined; the ranking is an extraction from the alexa.com database). In particular, the study examines brevity, rhythm, recourse to semiotic systems, and semantic characteristics of the domain names. The findings suggest that the US most-visited domain names are …
Constraint reality
Contrastive linguistics
Contrastive linguistics: history, philosophy and methodology by Pan Wenguo and Tham Wai Mun, London/New York, Continuum, 2007, ix + 287 pp., US$150.00 (hard back), ISBN 0-8264-8634-7 Contrastive li
Addition and reassessment
Using naturally occurring conversation data, this paper investigates preverbal ah in Shishan, a dialect of Lingao of the Tai-Kadai language family. On the surface, Shishan ah displays broad parallels to English also, too, and Mandarin ye in the marking of “sameness” and “additivity,” as well as concessive relations and a variety of speaker stances. This paper proposes a unified analysis of Shishan ah through the central meaning of [addition + rea…
Discourse particles
Multiplicity of self in public discourse
Discourse particles
Multiplicity of self in public discourse
Constraint reality
Linguistic and Cultural Characteristics of Domain Names of the Top Fifty Most-Visited Websites in the US and China
The current study is a cross-linguistic, cross-cultural analysis of the domain names of the fifty most-visited websites of Internet-based businesses in the US and China (100 domain names examined; the ranking is an extraction from the alexa.com database). In particular, the study examines brevity, rhythm, recourse to semiotic systems, and semantic characteristics of the domain names. The findings suggest that the US most-visited domain names are …
Multiplicity of self in public discourse
Contrastive linguistics
Contrastive linguistics: history, philosophy and methodology by Pan Wenguo and Tham Wai Mun, London/New York, Continuum, 2007, ix + 287 pp., US$150.00 (hard back), ISBN 0-8264-8634-7 Contrastive li
Addition and reassessment
Using naturally occurring conversation data, this paper investigates preverbal ah in Shishan, a dialect of Lingao of the Tai-Kadai language family. On the surface, Shishan ah displays broad parallels to English also, too, and Mandarin ye in the marking of “sameness” and “additivity,” as well as concessive relations and a variety of speaker stances. This paper proposes a unified analysis of Shishan ah through the central meaning of [addition + rea…
Discourse particles
Constraint reality
Constructing the ‘tellables’
Based on twelve celebrity interviews in Mandarin Chinese and American English, broadcast in a range of talk-radio/television programs in the U.S. and China, the current study is a comparative analysis of interviewers’ questioning practices and the cultural underpinnings of those questions. The analysis focuses on the interviewers’ question-word interrogatives in the discourse context of multiple Turn Construction Units (multi-TCUs). The study dem…
External information processing versus property ascertaining
Drawing on naturally occurring conversation, the present study examines three utterance-final
Statements as questions in interviews with celebrities
Linguistic and Cultural Characteristics of Domain Names of the Top Fifty Most-Visited Websites in the US and China
The current study is a cross-linguistic, cross-cultural analysis of the domain names of the fifty most-visited websites of Internet-based businesses in the US and China (100 domain names examined; the ranking is an extraction from the alexa.com database). In particular, the study examines brevity, rhythm, recourse to semiotic systems, and semantic characteristics of the domain names. The findings suggest that the US most-visited domain names are …
Linguistics (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Mandarin Chinese (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works)