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Multimodality, Interactional Linguistics, Chinese Linguistics, Conversation Analysis

Biography

Xiaoting Li's field of research is interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, and multimodal analysis. Her research focuses on how people use grammar, prosody, bodily-visual behaviors, and objects in the surround to make meaning and socialize in Chinese interaction. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Chinese Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, and the University of Alberta. She received the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2019-2021) and the DAAD fellowship (2008-2010). She was/is involved in international research networks such as the Scientific Network of Multimodality and Embodied Interaction, and the Research Network “International Linguistics”. Her recent publications include Interpersonal Touch in Conversational Joking (accepted, Research on Language and Social Interaction), Click-Initiated Self-Repair in Changing the Sequential Trajectory of Actions-in-Progress (accepted, Research on Language and Social Interaction), and Multimodality in Chinese Interaction (2019, co-edited with Tsuyoshi Ono, Mouton de Gruyter). Her current book project is Language, Body, and Action—A multimodal grammar of Mandarin (Cambridge University Press).

Activities

Employment (2)

University of Alberta: Edmonton, AB, CA

2018-07 to present | Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics (Department of East Asian Studies)
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University of Alberta: Edmonton, AB, CA

2011-07 to 2018-06 | Assistant Professor of Chinese Linguistics (Department of East Asian Studies)
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Education and qualifications (1)

Peking University: Beijing, CN

2006 to 2011 | PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Professional activities (11)

International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL): Edmonton, Alberta, CA

2012 to present
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International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA): Edmonton, Alberta, CA

2010 to present
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International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS): Edmonton, Alberta, CA

2009 to present
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International Pragmatics Association (IPrA): Edmonton, Alberta, CA

2009 to present
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German Society for Discourse and Interaction Analysis: Edmonton, Alberta, CA

2008 to present
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University of Freiburg, University of Potsdam: Freiburg, DE

2019 to 2021 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
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University of California Los Angeles: Los Angeles, CA, US

2018-10 to 2018-12 | Visiting scholar (Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture)
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University of York: York, North Yorkshire, GB

2010-01 to 2010-03 | Research Associate (Center for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication)
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University of Potsdam: Potsdam, DE

2008 to 2010 | DAAD fellowship
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Summer Linguistic School of the University of Michigan-Peking University Institute: Beijing, CN

2008 to 2008 | Shi Xue Jun Cai fellowship
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Peking University: Beijing, CN

2006 to 2008 | University Fellowship
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Funding (1)

Unfinished Utterances in Mandarin Conversation

2017 to 2019 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (ON, ON, CA)
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Works (23)

Pursuing student response through incomplete syntax, prosody, bodily- and visuo-orthographical resources in Chinese-as-a-second-language classrooms

Classroom Discourse
2024-05-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaoyun Wang; Xiaoting Li; Shui Li
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Teachers’ Eyebrow and Head Movements and Repeats as Other-Initiations of Repair in Second-Language Classrooms

Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
2024-02-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaoyun Wang; Xiaoting Li
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Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation

Text & Talk
2023-01-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaoting Li; Yaqiong Liu
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Multimodal practices for negative assessments as delicate matters: Incomplete syntax, facial expressions, and head movements

Open Linguistics
2021-10-08 | Journal article
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Interpersonal Touch in Conversational Joking

Research on Language and Social Interaction
2020-07-02 | Journal article
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Click-Initiated Self-Repair in Changing the Sequential Trajectory of Actions-in-Progress

Research on Language and Social Interaction
2020-01-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0835-1813
Part of ISSN: 1532-7973
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A discourse-interactional study of yinwei ‘because’ in Mandarin conversation

Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse
2019 | Book chapter
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Duomotai hudong yu hanyu duomotai yanjiu

Yuyan jiaoxue yuyanjiu [Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies]
2019 | Journal article
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Introduction: A multimodal approach to Chinese Interaction

Multimodality in Chinese Interaction
2019 | Book chapter
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Multimodal turn construction in Mandarin conversation

Multimodality in Chinese Interaction
2019 | Book chapter
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Multimodality in Chinese Interaction

De Gruyter Mouton
2019 | Edited book
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Negotiating activity closings with head nods in Mandarin conversation

Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings
2019 | Book chapter
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Researching multimodal Chinese interaction: A methodological account

Multimodality in Chinese Interaction
2019 | Book chapter
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Researching body movement and interaction in education

Researching body movement and interaction in education
2016 | Book chapter
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Some interactional uses of syntactically incomplete turns in Mandarin conversation

Chinese Language and Discourse
2016 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1877-7031
Part of ISSN: 1877-8798
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Some discourse-interactional uses of yinwei ‘because’ and its multimodal production in Mandarin conversation

Language Sciences
2016-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0388-0001
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Multimodality, Interaction and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation

John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia
2014 | Book
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Leaning and recipient intervening questions in Mandarin conversation

Journal of Pragmatics
2014-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0378-2166
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Language and the body in the construction of units in Mandarin face-to-face interaction

Studies in Language and Social Interaction
2013 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789027226358
Part of ISBN: 9789027271310
Part of ISSN: 1879-3983
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Reflections on units in talk-in-interaction

Gesprächsforschung Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion
2010 | Journal article
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Body movements in turn delimitation in Mandarin Chinese conversation

Gesture and Speech in Interaction
2009 | Conference paper
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The construction of individual identity in Mandarin Chinese conversation

Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics
2009 | Journal article
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On Firbas’s communicative dynamism

Linguistic Research
2008 | Journal article
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