Department of Linguistics, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics & the languages of China

Name:

Dr Yan JIANG 蔣嚴 蒋严

Email address:

yj9@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7898 4213

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

393

Academic Support Hours:

Monday 3-5pm

Year of Study:

1995

Website:

https://sites.google.com/site/yanjianglinguisticssoaslondon/

Biography

Yan JIANG got his BA and MA degrees from Fudan University, Shanghai and PhD in linguistics from London University (UCL and SOAS). Before joining SOAS Linguistics in September, 2015, he had taught at Fudan University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. More details can be found on his website.

Affiliations

China Linguistic School 中國語言學書院: Lecturer 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 (semantics and pragmatics)

Advanced Summer School in Linguistics 語言學高級暑期班: Lecturer 2007, 2012, 2016 (semantics, pragmatics, rhetoric)

Beijing Foregin Studies University Summer Term: Guest Lecturer 2016 (Meaning in Language)

Member of Editorial Board <Contemporary Linguistics> (Journal) Beijing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Member of Editorial Board <Modern Foreign Languages> (Journal) Guangzhou, Guangdong University of Foreign Languages and Trading.

Editor-in-Chief (on-going) <Key Issues in Semantics> Book Series, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing, Beijing.

Programmes Convened

• MA Language Documentation and Description (2018)
• MA Language Documentation and Description (2019)
• MA Language Documentation and Description (2020)
• MA Linguistics (2018)
• MA Linguistics (2019)
• MA Linguistics (2020)
• MA Linguistics (2021)
• MA Linguistics (2022)
• MA Linguistics and Intensive Language (2018)
• MA Linguistics and Intensive Language (2019)
• MA Linguistics and Intensive Language (2020)
• MA Linguistics and Intensive Language (2021)
• MA Linguistics and Intensive Language (2022)
• Research Degrees (MPhil/PhD) in Linguistics (2021)

Modules Taught

• Dissertation in Linguistics
• Introduction to Linguistics
• Issues in Semantics
• Issues in Semantics (Masters)
• Practical Translation: East Asian Languages into English
• Topics in Lexical Semantics
• Topics in Lexical Semantics (Masters)

PhD Students supervised

• Lin Li, Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese
• Lu Xue, Negation, Prediction and Thought-ascription — A Study of Quasi-logical Terms in Mandarin Chinese
• Wen Wang, A Corpus-based Study of Subjunctivity in Shanghainese (as evidenced in the missionary linguistic and translation works on/in vernacular Shanghainese in the period 1843-1950)
• Youru Zhou, Translation in the Chinese Translation Industry: The Product, Process and Quality Assurance

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Available for

• TV
• Radio
• Press
• Briefings
• Special Study Programmes
• Short Term Consultancy
• Long Term Consultancy
• Expert Immigration or Asylum Reports

Regional Expertise

• China and Inner Asia

Country Expertise

• China
• Hong Kong

Languages

• Chinese Cantonese
• Chinese Classical
• Chinese Mandarin

Authored Books

Jiang, Yan and Pan, Haihua (1998) 形式语义学引论 (Introduction to Formal Semantics). Beijing: China Social Science Publishing House.

Articles

Jiang, Yan and Wang, Wen (2021) 'Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu'. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, (20), pp 95-120.

Jiang, Yan (2019) 'Ways for expressing counterfactual conditionals in Mandarin Chinese'. Linguistics Vanguard, (5) S3, pp 20190009.

Yuan, Ying and Jiang, Yan (2018) 'Rhetorical Figures: The Argumentative “Ornament”'. Linguistics and Literature Studies, (6) 5, pp 211-218.

Yuan, Ying and Allen, Randy and Jiang, Yan (2017) 'Stasis Salience and the Enthymemic Thesis'. Language and Semiotic Studies 语言与符号学研究, (3) 3, pp 103-124.

Pan, Haihua and Jiang, Yan (2015) 'The Bound Variable Hierarchy and Donkey Anaphora in Mandarin Chinese'. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, (2) 2, pp 159-192.

Jiang, Yan and Miao, Chuanjiang (2013) '基于HNC的现代汉语句子基本语义类型例句库建设 Building a Token Corpus of Canonical Semantic Sentence Types for Modern Chinese Based on HNC Theory'. Modern Linguistics, (1) 3, pp 138-143.

Jiang, Yan (2012) 'A Formal Characterization of Explicature and its Consequences to Explicating in Chinese'. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, (8) 2, pp 241-253.

Edited Books or Journals

Jiang, Yan, (ed.), (2011) 走近形式语用学 (Approaching Formal Pragmatics). Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing. (Surveys on Recent Western Linguistic Theories).

Book Chapters

Jiang, Yan (2019) 'Chinese and Counterfactual Reasoning'. In: Huang, Chu-Ren and Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo and Meiserernst, Barbara, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Jiang, Yan (2018) 'Chinese Rhetoric'. In: Huang, Chu-Ren and Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo and Meiserernst, Barbara, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Jiang, Yan (2016) 'Presupposition triggers'. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill.

Jiang, Yan (2016) 'Scalar implicature'. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill.

Jiang, Yan and Wang, Yuying (2016) 'Counterfactual Subjunctive Assertions in Shanghai Dialect'. In: Chin, Chi-on Andy and Kwok, Bit-chee and Tsou, Benjamin K., (eds.), Commemorative Essays for Professor Yuen-Ren Chao: Father of Modern Chinese Linguistics. Taiwan: Crane Publishing.

Jiang, Yan (2016) 'Deixis and Anaphora'. In: Huang, Chu-Ren and Shi, Dingxu, (eds.), A Reference Grammar of Chinese. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp 484-517.

Jiang, Yan (2016) 'Chinese Pragmatics'. In: Sin-Wai, Chan and Minett, James William and Wing Yee, Florence Li, (eds.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Jiang, Yan (2014) 'On the Lexical Meaning of Conditional Connectives in Chinese'. In: Su, Xinchun and He, Tingting, (eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics 15th Workshop, CLSW 2014, Macao, China, June 9--12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin: Springer.

Monographs and Working Papers

Jiang, Yan and Shi, Dingxu (2007) 上海风情话 [Glamorous Shanghainese]. Hong Kong: Radio Television Hong Kong; Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies.

Translations

Jiang, Yan (2008) '关联:交际与认知 [Relevance: Communication and Cognition]' Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series, pp 1-432.

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