I supervise graduate students in the field of Chinese linguistics, Chinese language in interaction, conversation analysis of Chinese spoken discourse, Chinese written and spoken discourse analysis, and multimodal analysis.  Please read more about the MA program in Chinese linguistics at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta.

 

 

Graduate students supervised                          

 

Stefana Vukadinovich, Expected to graduate in 2019. MA thesis project: imperative turns in Mandarin interaction.

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Zixuan Song, Expected to graduate in 2019. MA thesis project: collaborative construction of turns in Mandarin conversation

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Xiaoyun Wang,  Graduated in 2018. Interactional functions of suoyi 'so' in Mandarin conversation, University of Alberta      

 

Kerry Sluchinski, Graduated in 2017. Non-standard spelling of third person pronoun Ta in Chinese Weibo, University of Alberta

                                   

Gaisha Oralova, Graduated in 2016. Her thesis is on the minimal response token en in Mandarin conversation. University of Alberta                            

Jie Luo, MA in Chinese Linguistics. Graduated in September 2015. Her thesis is on the interactional functions of yinwei-                                   clauses in Mandarin conversation. University of Alberta

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Wendai Yang, MA in Chinese Linguistics. Graduated in April 2015. Her thesis is “A study of the interactional function of the tag                     question dui bu dui in Mandarin conversation from the multimodal perspective” University of Alberta.

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Qian Tang, MA in Chinese Linguistics. Graduated in September 2014. Her MA research is on Chinese Internet Homophones from the           systemic Functional Perspective. University of Alberta

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Jie Yang, MA in Chinese Linguistics. Graduated in 2013. Her thesis is “Multimodal Study of Response Token dui dui dui in                                 Mandarin Conversation” University of Alberta