
Heidi Hui ShiUniversity of Turku | UTU · School of Language and Translation Studies
Heidi Hui Shi
PhD of Linguistics
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Introduction
Dr. Shi obtained her Ph.D. and M.A in linguistics from University of Oregon, USA. She is currently a University Lecturer (Yliopistonlehtori) at University of Turku, Finland. Her research interest lies in Chinese as a Second Language Pedagogy, Chinese Construction Grammar, Gender and Language, Gender Socialization, Metaphor, Digital Media and Language, Corpus Linguistics, and Quantitative Methods using R.
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September 2015 - June 2021
Education
September 2016 - December 2017
September 2015 - June 2021
September 2009 - February 2012
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Publications (5)
Despite extensive research efforts to explain the Mandarin Chinese particle le , confusion persists in the absence of a unitary theory and sufficient empirical evidence. This study provides a unitary account of le by adopting a usage-based constructionist approach, one that liberates grammatical aspect from, and is able to accommodate, lexical aspe...
2021. Affective stance in constructional idioms: A usage-based constructionist approach to Mandarin [yòu X yòu Y], Journal of Pragmatics 177, 29-50. The Mandarin Chinese [yòu X yòu Y] is a semi-formulaic construction with two open slots X and Y, which admit a range of lexical input. Existing studies of this constructional idiom are incomplete due t...
This article examines Chinese manual motor metaphors involving manual object manipulation as the source domain. Specifically, we use corpus data to investigate two transitive constructions, [抓紧 zhuājĭn 'grab tightly, clutch' NP] and [把住 băzhù 'grasp firmly' NP], and a causative construction [把 bă NP 捧 pĕng COMPL] 'lift NP with deliberation'. In eac...
This study investigates emerging usages in Chinese cyberspace of the numeral classifier méi that violate syntactic and semantic conventions of canonical grammar of modern Chinese. We treat these usages as constructional variants of the canonical classifier construction and show how they afford users of Weibo a device of social indexicality in the s...
This study investigates emerging usages in Chinese cyberspace of the numeral classifier méi that violate syntactic and semantic conventions of canonical grammar of modern Chinese. We treat these usages as constructional variants of the canonical classifier construction and show how they afford users of Weibo a device of social indexicality in the s...
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This project explores the various roles language play in digital cultures both local and global.