Hong Guang (Ian) Ying, Associate Professor

Fields

Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Comparative/Contrastive Rhetoric

Courses

• Language Theory
• Principles and Practice in Adult Second Language Acquisition
• Teaching Second Language and Second Dialect Writers
• Contrastive Rhetoric
• Research Methods
• Grammar
• Rhetoric and Style

Publications

Forthcoming. "Relevance and the complementizer that." Language and Style: An International Journal.

2004.  "Relevance mapping: A study of L2 learners' processing of ambiguous sentences in English." A special issue: Relevance Theory and Second Language Acquisition. Second Language Research, 20, 232-255.

2003. Investigating reconstruction in a second language. Muenchen, Germany: Lincom Europa Academic Publishers.

2001. "The semiotic, social and cognitive dimensions of a Japanese Festschrift." Semiotica, 137, 41-56.

2001. "On the origins of contrastive rhetoric: A reply to Matsuda." International Journal of Applied Linguistics 11, 261-266.

2000.   "The origin of contrastive rhetoric revisited." International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 10, 99-108.

1999.  "Access to UG and language transfer:  A study of L2 learners' interpretation of reconstruction in Chinese." Second Language Research, 15, 41-72.

1998. "L2 Learners' processing of reconstruction in English: A minimalist account." Ilha Do Desterro, 35. A special issue: Cognitive Perspectives on the Acquisition/learning of Second/Foregin Languages (129-156). Brazil:  Universidade Federale de Santa Catarina.

1997.  "The equilibrium of yin and yang and dialogics of silence: A textual analysis of a Chinese Hui narrative." Semiotica, 115, 345-360.

1996.  "Multiple constraints on processing ambiguous sentences: Evidence from adult L2 learners." Language Learning, 46, 681-711.

1995.   "What sort of input is needed for intake?" International Review of Applied Linguistics, 33, 175-194.