University of Colorado Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Bio

Dr. Ying publishes and teaches in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. He is the author of Investigating Reconstruction in a Second Language (Lincom Europa 2003). His current research focuses on Relevance-based pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition. His research interests also include the interface between cognition and second language acquisition.

Select Publications

2010

Genre as Social Indexicality: A Cross-Cultural analysis of English and Chinese poems. Semiotica 177, 197-208.

2008

The linguistic, social and cultural dimensions of multicultural Festschriften. Arizona Papers in SLAT, 150-165.

2007

L2 Learners’ Interpretation of Opeartor-variable binding in VP-Ellipsis. In ZhaoHong Han (ed.), Understanding Second Language Process (pp. 148-159). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters

2006

Relevance and L2 learners' interpretation of reflexive anaphora in VP-ellipsis: An exploration of the relationship between relevance theory and typological universals.Journal of Language Universal 6, 159-194.

2005

Relevance and second language learners' interpretation of reflexive anaphora in VP-Ellipsis. Language Sciences, 27, 551-570.

2004

Relevance mapping: A study of L2 learners’ processing of ambiguous sentences in English. Second Language Research, 20, 232-255.

2001

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

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.

Courses Taught

English 6220 Second Language Writing

English 5171 Language Theory

English 5601 Principles and Practices of Second Language Acquisition

English 5190 Intercultural Communication

English 2070 Grammar, Rhetoric and Style