Ben Pin-Yun Wang
Position
Assistant Teaching Professor; Chinese Language Coordinator
Pacific and Asian Studies
Contact
Office:
CLE C210
Credentials
BA (National Taiwan U.), MA (National Taiwan U.), PhD (Pennsylvania State U.)
Area of expertise
Chinese Language
Credentials
- PhD Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University 2018
- MA in Linguistics, National Taiwan University 2009
- BA in Foreign Language and Literature, National Taiwan University 2005
Selected Publications
- Wang, B. P.-Y., Lu, X., Hsu, C.-C., Lin, E. P.-C., & Ai, H. (accepted). Linguistic metaphor identification in Chinese. In S. Nacey, L. Dorst, T. Krennmayr, & G. Reijnierse (Eds.), Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU Around the World. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Yu, N., & Wang, B. P.-Y. (2018). Cognitive linguistics approaches to Chinese second language acquisition. In C. Ke (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition (pp. 31-47). New York: Routledge.
- Lu, X., & Wang, B. P.-Y. (2017). Towards a metaphor-annotated corpus of Mandarin Chinese. Language Resources and Evaluation, 51(3), 663-694.
- Wang, B. P.-Y., & Su, L. I.-W. (2015). On the principled polysemy of –kai in Chinese resultative verbs. Chinese Language and Discourse, 6(1), 2-27.
Courses
PAAS 218: Intensive Beginner Chinese II
PAAS 318: Intermediate Chinese
PAAS 395: Intermediate Topics in PAAS: Global Taiwan
PAAS 412: Understanding Chinese Media
PAAS 413: Effective Communication in Chinese