Yi You(尤易) is a Ph.D. student specializing in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. Before joining the University of Arizona, she completed her B.A. and M.A. in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages at Nanjing University.
As a researcher, Yi is dedicated to exploring argumentation, stance/stancetaking and persuasion in second language acquisition. Her work primarily utilizes Corpus Linguistics methods to analyze rhetoric strategies and pragmatic functions in discourse. She is also interested in Chinese Heritage Language Maintenance, children’s multi/bilingual education and multi/biliteracy development.
Yi’s intellectual curiosity extends far beyond linguistics. She is an avid learner with interests spanning nearly every academic discipline. When she is not doing research, she enjoys traveling and photography.