Prof Yang has published both at home and abroad 27 books and more than 80 articles on linguistics, text analysis and language teaching, among which are: Functions of language in English novels (1992), Foreign Languages.
2. Saussure's arbitrary theory of linguistic sign (1994), Foreign Languages. 3. Saussure's theory of langue and parole (1996), Shandong Foreign Languages Journal. 4. Two interpretations of metaphor (1998), Foreign Languages and Their Teaching 5. Review of Margaret Berry et al. edsMeaning and Form: Systemic functional interpretation (1999), Word. 6. Charles C. Fries’ theory of linguistic communication and signal grammar (2000), Foreign Languages. 7. A Dictionary of English Phrases and Idioms with Examples (2002), Xiamen University Press. 8. Construal and context in discourse (2003), Evaluative devices in text (2003), Foreign Language Teaching and Research. 9. Introduction to Linguistics (2005), Higher Education Press. 10. English modal devices and text types (2006), Foreign Languages and Their Teaching 11. A small-corpus-based approach to the role of nominalization in styles (2006), Computer-assisted Foreign Language Education. 12. Comment adjuncts in English academic texts (2006), Foreign Languages and Their Teaching 13. Metadiscourse and Language Functions (2007), Foreign Language Education. 14. English Lexicology: A Coursebook (2009), Higher Education Press. 15. Multimodal discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistics (2009), Foreign Language Education. 16. The various approaches to lexis (2011), Foreign Languages in China. 17. Lexicogrammar of English Science Text and Popular Science Text (2011), Foreign Language Education. 18. Studies in Discourse and Text: Theories and Methods (2013), Foreign Languages in China. 19. The Linguistic Features of Knowledge Construction in Chemistry Textbooks (2017). in Jonathan J. Webster and Peng Xuanwei eds. Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: The State of the Art in China Today. London and New York: Bloomsbury. | 
