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2005

Callaghan, Sean Koji

Fall 2013

Yang, Jie

This thesis investigates the response token dui dui dui (right right right) in Mandarin conversation from a multimodal perspective. Two types of dui dui dui are found in the data. The first type serves to display recipient’s affiliation with the speaker’s immediate previous assertion. The second...

Spring 2023

Yang, Xinlei

The primary purpose of the present study is to compare the clause combining strategies used by Chinese L1 Japanese speakers and native Japanese speakers speaking Japanese. This study used storytelling data from the corpus I-JAS and involved both quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify...

Fall 2023

Yang, Yining

Instant messaging, as a type of Internet-mediated communication, is prevalent in people’s daily lives. It allows people to use various multimodal resources—e.g., images, emojis, audio, and videos—to interact with each other remotely (Herring and Androutsopoulos, 2015). This research focuses on...

Fall 2014

Tang, Qian

This thesis explores the phonetic features, morphological classification, and discourse function of Chinese Internet homophones based on the Leiden Weibo Corpus (a corpus of Chinese micro-blogging). The analyses show that more than half of the Chinese Internet homophones in the data retain the...

Spring 2015

Qiu,Peng

Yilan Creole is a Japanese-based creole with features from an Austronesian language, Atayal, spoken in Yilan County, Taiwan. It was recognized by Chien and Sanada in 2006 (Chien & Sanada, 2010a), but much is still unknown about the language. Yilan Creole possesses many linguistic features of the...

Fall 2012

Qin, Longlu

In Mandarin Chinese, the particle ne has been studied using written text, constructed examples, and hypothetical discourse settings. However, these studies overlooked the interaction and relationships that exist between speakers when considering the usage of ne. In this thesis, we analyze the...

Fall 2019

Li, Lin

This thesis examines two paintings on the subject of the Red Cliff boat trip (Chibi zhouyou) both made in 1943 by the modern Chinese ink painter, Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). In the history of Chinese painting, the Red Cliff is an unfading memorial in the collective memory of Chinese literati, and was...