People
ProfessorsXuehua Xiang |
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601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) |
Assistant
Professor |
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TESOL,
Chinese
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As a discourse analyst, Xuehua Xiang’s research interests are equally balanced between linguistic-sociolinguistic work and second language studies. She is particularly interested in such areas as interlanguage semantics/pragmatics, comparative sociolinguistics, interaction and grammar, second language writing, and Chinese as a second/heritage language. She is currently working on interlanguage and L1 concept transfer in advanced ESL learners’ written texts. From a discourse-pragmatic perspective, she is also engaged in research on interactional particles in Southeast Asian languages, particularly Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and Shishan (Hainan Island, China). Her research in this area focuses on the linguistic marking of evidentiality, epistemic modality and affect.
