Chiawei Wang

PhD Linguistics & English Language

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
  • University of Edinburgh

Contact details

Address

Street

Room 2.17, Dugald Stewart Building
3 Charles Street

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Qualifications

2017–2021 PhD Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh

  • Thesis: The Modal and Discourse Properties of Utterance-Final Particles in Mandarin

Undergraduate teaching

2017–2020

  • Tutor of Linguistics and English Langage 1A (Semester 1)
  • Tutor of Linguistics and English Langage 1B (Semester 2)
  • Tutor in the PPLS Writing Centre

Postgraduate teaching

2017–2020

  • Tutor in the PPLS Writing Centre

Research summary

My current research centres on the semantics and pragmatics of modal and discourse particles.

Current research interests

theoretical and experimental semantics and pragmatics, modality, evidentiality, common ground, (inter)subjectivity, rhetorical relations