Jiajin Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiajin Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiajin |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Foreign Studies University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3454-9352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bridging form and function
Exploring interdisciplinary boundaries
Comparing implicit and explicit apologies in spoken English
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles
A multimodal local grammar of evaluation in picture books
Extending local grammar to multimodal meaning-making
This case study attempts to describe the mechanism of meaning-making in picture books as the unity of texts and images. The study proposes that the applicability of meaning/function-based local grammar extends to multimodal discourse. By examining six picture books considered prototypical conflict narratives, our study identified and analyzed multimodal local grammar patterns accounting for three meanings: evaluation, ownership, and identificatio…
Assessing the potential of using large language models for pragmatic annotation of historical texts
This study investigates the viability of using large language models ( llm s) to conduct pragmatic annotations of historical texts. The investigation employs a small corpus of witness depositions and compares Claude 3.5 Sonnet — an llm that excels in reasoning over text — with two human annotators over their performance in the pragmatic annotation of Early Modern English ( em od e ) texts. The study also compares the model’s annotations on modern…
Exploring text-image relations in museum contexts
Interpretive captions play a crucial role in museum contexts by providing verbal information that complements and enhances visual artworks, thereby facilitating communication between visitors and the museum. However, despite their significance, there remains uncertainty about how these captions, generally perceived as secondary to the artworks, vary in their enhancing roles. In response to this gap, this study employs the multimodal corpus SemArt…
Sub-disciplinary variation of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles
As a cover term for the negotiation of propositional information and reader engagement, metadiscourse has gained considerable attention from scholars of academic discourse. Recent studies have extended to previously unexplored structures that realize metadiscourse, such as ‘metadiscursive nouns’ (Jiang and Hyland 2018. Nouns and academic interactions: A neglected feature of metadiscourse. Applied Linguistics 39. 508–531). Among various linguistic…
Variation in phrase frame structure and function in argumentative writing by EFL learners across different L1 backgrounds
Within the context of multilingualism, there has been burgeoning research interest in interlanguage varieties. This corpus‐based study investigated structural and functional variations in phrase frames (p‐frames) in argumentative writing by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners from Arabic, German, Hindi, and Chinese language backgrounds. P‐frames, recurrent non‐contiguous co‐selection units within texts, were automatically extracted, manu…
Dative alternation in Chinese
This study investigates the factors significantly constraining dative alternation in Chinese by adopting mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The analysis showed that such factors significantly affected the choice of dative variants in Chinese, including the animacy, pronominality, and definiteness of the recipient, the accessibility and concreteness of the theme, and the length difference between the theme and the recipient. Findings wer…
Interdisciplinary variations of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles
The widespread use of metadiscourse is vital to the study of academic discourse and genre analysis. This article focuses on the concept of metadiscursive verb patterns (MVPs) and examines their variation in English research articles across four domains representing hard/soft‐pure and hard/soft‐applied disciplines. Based on a bottom‐up investigation of a self‐compiled corpus, three findings are highlighted: (1) the crucial rhetorical roles of MVPs…
Salience-simplification strategy for markedness of causal subordinators
A syntactic complexity analysis of translational English across genres
This study compares the syntactic complexity between translational and non-translational English across four genres (i.e. fiction, news, general prose, and academic prose) and examines the connections between various forms and degrees of syntactic complexity measures and explicitation. Fourteen syntactic complexity indices were examined based on a one-million-word translational English corpus (COTE) and a one-million-word non-translational Englis…
Corpus-based Chinese studies
This article reviews corpus-based Chinese studies, both applied and theoretical, from the 1920s to the present. It will be shown that, while corpus-based Chinese studies have been gaining momentum for only the last couple of decades, the roots of Chinese corpus linguistics go all the way back to the beginning of the 20th century. Today the bulk of corpus-based Chinese studies is oriented toward applied linguistics, with the compilation of frequen…
Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand)
Dative alternation in Chinese
This study investigates the factors significantly constraining dative alternation in Chinese by adopting mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The analysis showed that such factors significantly affected the choice of dative variants in Chinese, including the animacy, pronominality, and definiteness of the recipient, the accessibility and concreteness of the theme, and the length difference between the theme and the recipient. Findings wer…
Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand)
Interdisciplinary variations of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles
The widespread use of metadiscourse is vital to the study of academic discourse and genre analysis. This article focuses on the concept of metadiscursive verb patterns (MVPs) and examines their variation in English research articles across four domains representing hard/soft‐pure and hard/soft‐applied disciplines. Based on a bottom‐up investigation of a self‐compiled corpus, three findings are highlighted: (1) the crucial rhetorical roles of MVPs…
Salience-simplification strategy for markedness of causal subordinators
Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand)
Corpus-based Chinese studies
This article reviews corpus-based Chinese studies, both applied and theoretical, from the 1920s to the present. It will be shown that, while corpus-based Chinese studies have been gaining momentum for only the last couple of decades, the roots of Chinese corpus linguistics go all the way back to the beginning of the 20th century. Today the bulk of corpus-based Chinese studies is oriented toward applied linguistics, with the compilation of frequen…
A syntactic complexity analysis of translational English across genres
This study compares the syntactic complexity between translational and non-translational English across four genres (i.e. fiction, news, general prose, and academic prose) and examines the connections between various forms and degrees of syntactic complexity measures and explicitation. Fourteen syntactic complexity indices were examined based on a one-million-word translational English corpus (COTE) and a one-million-word non-translational Englis…
Salience-simplification strategy for markedness of causal subordinators
Dative alternation in Chinese
This study investigates the factors significantly constraining dative alternation in Chinese by adopting mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The analysis showed that such factors significantly affected the choice of dative variants in Chinese, including the animacy, pronominality, and definiteness of the recipient, the accessibility and concreteness of the theme, and the length difference between the theme and the recipient. Findings wer…
Interdisciplinary variations of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles
The widespread use of metadiscourse is vital to the study of academic discourse and genre analysis. This article focuses on the concept of metadiscursive verb patterns (MVPs) and examines their variation in English research articles across four domains representing hard/soft‐pure and hard/soft‐applied disciplines. Based on a bottom‐up investigation of a self‐compiled corpus, three findings are highlighted: (1) the crucial rhetorical roles of MVPs…
Sub-disciplinary variation of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles
As a cover term for the negotiation of propositional information and reader engagement, metadiscourse has gained considerable attention from scholars of academic discourse. Recent studies have extended to previously unexplored structures that realize metadiscourse, such as ‘metadiscursive nouns’ (Jiang and Hyland 2018. Nouns and academic interactions: A neglected feature of metadiscourse. Applied Linguistics 39. 508–531). Among various linguistic…
Variation in phrase frame structure and function in argumentative writing by EFL learners across different L1 backgrounds
Within the context of multilingualism, there has been burgeoning research interest in interlanguage varieties. This corpus‐based study investigated structural and functional variations in phrase frames (p‐frames) in argumentative writing by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners from Arabic, German, Hindi, and Chinese language backgrounds. P‐frames, recurrent non‐contiguous co‐selection units within texts, were automatically extracted, manu…
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles
A multimodal local grammar of evaluation in picture books
Extending local grammar to multimodal meaning-making
This case study attempts to describe the mechanism of meaning-making in picture books as the unity of texts and images. The study proposes that the applicability of meaning/function-based local grammar extends to multimodal discourse. By examining six picture books considered prototypical conflict narratives, our study identified and analyzed multimodal local grammar patterns accounting for three meanings: evaluation, ownership, and identificatio…
Assessing the potential of using large language models for pragmatic annotation of historical texts
This study investigates the viability of using large language models ( llm s) to conduct pragmatic annotations of historical texts. The investigation employs a small corpus of witness depositions and compares Claude 3.5 Sonnet — an llm that excels in reasoning over text — with two human annotators over their performance in the pragmatic annotation of Early Modern English ( em od e ) texts. The study also compares the model’s annotations on modern…
Exploring text-image relations in museum contexts
Interpretive captions play a crucial role in museum contexts by providing verbal information that complements and enhances visual artworks, thereby facilitating communication between visitors and the museum. However, despite their significance, there remains uncertainty about how these captions, generally perceived as secondary to the artworks, vary in their enhancing roles. In response to this gap, this study employs the multimodal corpus SemArt…
Bridging form and function
Exploring interdisciplinary boundaries
Comparing implicit and explicit apologies in spoken English
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Grammar (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)