Journal Papers
Su, H.*, Wan, T., & Lee, W. (2025). "Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other. Language in Society. [SSCI] https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404525101425
Su, H. (2023). Mothers as stancetakers: Intertextuality in same-sex marriage debates in Taiwan. Discourse & Society, 34(2), p.192-212. [SSCI] journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09579265221117048
Su, H. (2023). Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 27(1), p.66-86. [SSCI] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/josl.12585
Chiang, A. & Su, H.* (2022). Stop family destruction!: Ideologies concerning family destruction metaphors in same-sex marriage debates. Critical Discourse Studies, 21(3), p.237-253. [SSCI] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405904.2022.2101500
Su, H.* & Lee, W. (2022). Metadiscourse of impoliteness, language ideology, and identity: Offense-taking as social action. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 18(2), p.227-255. [SSCI, A&HCI] doi.org/10.1515/pr-2019-0013
Chang, W., Haugh, M., & Su, H. (2021). Taking it too far: The role of ideological discourses in contesting the limits of teasing and offence. Pragmatics, 31(3), p.382-405. [SSCI, A&HCI]
www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/prag.20003.chaSu, H.* & Chun, C. (2021). Chineseness, Taiwaneseness, and the traditional and simplified Chinese Scripts: Tourism, identity, and linguistic commodification. Language & Communication, 77, p.35-45 [SSCI] www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0271530920301002
Wong, A., Su, H., & Hiramoto, M. (2021). Complicating raciolinguistics: Language, Chineseness, and the Sinophone. Language & Communication, 76, p.131-135. [SSCI] www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530920301075
Lee, W. & Su, H.* (2019). 'You are in Taiwan, speak Chinese': Identity, language ideology, and sociolinguistic scales in online interaction. Discourse, Context, & Media. 32, 100339. [SSCI] doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2019.100339
Su, H. (2019). The metapragmatics of Taiwanese (im)politeness: Conceptualization and evaluation of limao . Journal of Pragmatics. 148, p.26-43 [SSCI, A&HCI] doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.05.018
Su, H. (2018). Contested words, gender norms, and language ideologies: The gendered meaning of tai. Gender and Language, 12(1), p.27-60. [SSCI, A&HCI] journals.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/28954
蘇席瑤 (2018). 台灣華語的在地化及標記化 (The indigenization and enregisterment of Taiwan Mandarin). 台灣學誌, 17, p.1-35. rportal.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/bitstream/20.500.12235/80964/1/ntnulib_ja_B0601_0017_001.pdf
蘇席瑤著、林恒立譯 (2018)「台湾における言語とジェンダー研究 ―文献レビューを中心に」 (「語言與性別研究:文獻回顧」日文版)北海道大学大学院メディア・コミュニケーション研究 院『メディア・コミュニケーション研究』71 号、Pp.205-228
eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/68799Su, H. (2012). The social implications of syllable-final nasal mergers in Taiwan Mandarin: A variation study. Language and Linguistics, 13(4), p.767-802. [SSCI, A&HCI] www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/files/publication/j2012_4_06_4740.pdf
蘇席瑤 (2012) 語言與性別研究:文獻回顧 (Language and gender studies: A review of literature). 師大學報, 57(1), p.129-149. rportal.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/bitstream/20.500.12235/78430/1/ntnulib_ja_L0806_5701_129.pdf
Su, H. (2011) The meaning contestation of 'tai': Language ideologies and the global-local ambivalence. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 37(2), p.283-308. [THCI Core] www.concentric-linguistics.url.tw/upload/articlesfs27140211120649708.pdf
Su, H. (2009) Reconstructing Taiwanese and Taiwan Guoyu on the Taiwan-based Internet: Playfulness, stylization, and politeness. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 19(2), p. 313-335. benjamins.com/catalog/japc.19.2.08su
Su, H. (2009) Code-switching in managing a face-threatening communicative task: Footing and ambiguity in conversational interaction in Taiwan. Journal of Pragmatics, 41(2), p. 372-392. [SSCI, A&HCI] doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.007
Su, H. (2008). What does it mean to be a girl with qizhi (氣質)?: Refinement, gender, and language ideologies in contemporary Taiwan. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12(3) p. 334-358. [SSCI] doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00370.x
Su, H. (2003) The multilingual and multi-orthographic Taiwan-based Internet: Creative uses of writing systems on college-affiliated BBSs. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 9(1) November. [SSCI] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00357.x
Book
謝承諭、蘇席瑤 (2024). 語言學家看劇時在想什麼?:從時事、熱門台劇、韓劇到經典電影,認識日常裡無處不在的語言學,探索人類思考與互動背後的奧祕。麥田出版。
Book Chapters
Su, H. (2020). The discourses of lao yingwen: Resistance to and subversion of the normative status of English in Taiwan. In H. Klöter and M. Söderblom Saarela (eds.), Language Diversity in the Sinophone World (pp.229-249). New York: Routledge.
Su, H. (2015). Code-switching. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie, and T. Sandel (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction (pp.135-147). Boston: Wiley-Blackwell.
Su, H. (2007) The multilingual and multi-orthographic Taiwan-based Internet: Creative uses of writing systems on college-affiliated BBSs. In Danet, Brenda & Susan C. Herring, (eds.). Multilingual Internet: Language, culture, and communication online (pp.64-86). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Su, H. (2004) Mock Taiwanese-accented Mandarin in the Internet community in Taiwan: The interaction between technology, linguistic practice, and language ideologies. In Ron Scollon and Philip LeVine (eds.), Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (pp.59-70). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Conference Presentations
Su, H. & Wan, T. (2025). The Metapragmatics of Rhotacization: Social Meanings of Er-hua in Taiwan Mandarin. New Ways of Analyzing Variation - Asian Pacific 8. August 4-7, 2025. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Su, H. (2025). “Why don’t you admit you are the language police”: Enregisterment and offense-taking as social action. The 19th International Pragmatics Conference. June 22-19, 2025. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Su, H. (2024). (De)legitimizing language policing in ordinary conversations: Linguistic authority and enregisterment on Taiwanese social media. Sociolinguistics Symposium 25. June 24-27, 2024. Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
Su, H. (2023). The metapragmatics of swearing: The indexical field of fuck. The 18th International Pragmatics Conference. July 9-14, 2023. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Chang, W., Chen, C., Haugh, M., & Su, H. (2023). The pragmatics of offence and public shaming in Chinese. The 18th International Pragmatics Conference. July 9-14, 2023. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Wan, T., Lee, W., & Su, H. (2022). “Is qǐyè Putonghua? Elders also say qǐyè”: Contestation between generation characterizing and nation othering. New Ways of Analyzing Variation - Asian Pacific 7. December 14-16. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Su, H., Wan, T., & Lee, W. (2022). “The minister just said qǐyè”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other. The 2022 East Asian Anthropological Association annual meeting. October 15-17. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Su, H. (2021). Mothers as stancetakers: Identity, stancetaking, and intertextuality in same-sex marriage discourses in Taiwan. The 11th biennial conference of the International Gender and Language Association. June 22-24. Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Su. H. (2019). "You don't have kids, do you?: Mother identity, stancetaking, and intertextuality in same-sex marriage discourses in Taiwan. Georegetown University Roundtable 2019. March 29-31. Georegetown University, Washington DC.
Su. H. (2018). Traditional Chinese script, Taiwaneseness, and Chineseness. 2018 Annual meeting of American Anthropological Association. Nov 14-18. San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA.
Su, H. & Lee, W. (2018). “This is our country. Show some respect!”: (Im)politeness, social evaluation, and language ideologies.' The 4th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA). Nov 1-3, 2018. University at Albany, SUNY.
Chang, M., Haugh, M. & Su, H. (2018) Taking it too far or not being able to take a joke? A metapragmatic analysis of online discussion about the limits of teasing and taking offence on a Taiwanese variety show. The 4th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA). Nov 1-3, 2018. University at Albany, SUNY.
Su, H. (2018). Politeness as a discursive construction: Identity and language ideologies among Taiwanese in China. Sociolinguistics Symposium 22. University of Auckland, New Zealand. June 27-30, 2018.
Su, H. (2017) Traditional or Simplified Scripts?: Identity and Marketing in the Taiwanese Tourism. 言語科学会第19回国際年次大会(jsls 2017). Kyoto Women’s University. Kyoto, Japan. July 1-2, 2017.
Su, H. (2016) Redefining Marriage and Family: Discourses about the Legalization of Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan. The 9th International Gender and Language Association Conference. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. May 19-21, 2016.
Su, H. (2016) From a Taiwanese Accent to an Imagined Mainland Chinese Accent: Sociolinguistic Variation, Media Reactions, and Language Ideologies in Taiwan. New Ways of Analyzing Variation--Asian Pacific Region. Chiayi, Taiwan. April 22-24, 2016.
Su, H. (2015) Politeness, Identity, and Language Ideologies: Discursively constructed contrasts between “the polite Taiwanese” and “the rude Chinese” among Taiwanese in China. The 14th International Pragmatics Conference. Antwerp, Belgium. July 26-31.
Su, H. (2015). The discourses of lao yingwen (撂英文/烙英文): Identities and language ideologies concerning English code-mixing in Taiwan. Symposium on language diversity in the Sinophone world. Göttingen University. Göttingen, Germany. June 11-13.
Su, H. & Chun, C. (2015). Tourism, orthographic controversy, and language ideologies: Is simplified Chinese necessary in Taiwan? The sociolinguistics of globalization. Hong Kong University. Hong Kong. June 3-6.
Lee, W. & Su, H. (2015). "You are in Taiwan, speak Chinese": Identity, language ideologies, and sociolinguistic scale. The Sociolinguistics of Globalization. Hong Kong University. Hong Kong. June 3-6.
Su, H. (2014). Language, femininity, and language ideologies. The 8th International Gender and Language Association Conference. Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, Canada. June 5-7.
Su, H. (2011). Language play and politeness in computer-mediated communication in multilingual Taiwan. The 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism. University of Oslo. Oslo, Norway. June 15-18.
Su, H. (2010). Applied linguistics: Theory and practice. (Invited panelist) 3rd International Conference on Applied Linguistics. National Chiayi University. Chiayi, Taiwan. Nov. 26-27.
Su, H. (2010). Taike, localness, and language ideologies. 3rd International Conference on Applied Linguistics. National Chiayi University. Chiayi, Taiwan. Nov. 26-27.
Su, H. (2010). The gendered meaning of tai. Sixth International Gender and Language Association Conference. Tsuda College. Tokyo, Japan. Sept. 18-20.
Su, H. (2009). "You are so tai!": Localness and language Ideologies in contemporary Taiwan. Conference of Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. Taipei, Taiwan, July 2-5.
Su, H. (2008). Cities, cultural places, and identity: Linguistic and discursive construction of regional differences in multilingual Taiwan. Sociolinguistics Symposium 17. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. April 3-5.
Su, H. (2008). Reconstructing Taiwanese and Taiwan Guoyu on the Taiwan-based Internet: Playfulness, stylization, and politeness. 2008應用語言學研討會。中原大學,January 19.
Su, H. (2006). Language and regional identity in a performative context: Evidence from a Taiwanese university. Fifth international conference of Chinese sociolinguistics. Beijing University. Beijing, China. December 8-10.
Su, H. (2006). Refinement, qizhi, and taike: Ideologies of language, gender, and class in contemporary Taiwan. Fourth International Gender and Language Association Conference. University of Valencia. Valencia, Spain. November 8-10.
Su, H. (2006). ‘What does it mean to be a girl with qizhi?—Ideologies of language and gender in contemporary Taiwan.’ Sociolinguistics symposium 16. University of Limerick. Limerick, Ireland. July 6-8.
Su, H. (2006) Linguistic and discursive construction of regional differences in multilingual Taiwan: Cities, cultural places, and language ideologies. International Conference on Applied Linguistics. National Chiayi University. Chiayi, Taiwan, April 1-2.
Su, H. (2005). Styling and the emergence of comical effects in performance contexts. The 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. Madison, Wisconsin, July 24-29.
Su, H. (2004). Linguistic innovation on the Taiwan-based Internet: Reconstructing the meanings of Taiwanese and Taiwanese-accented Mandarin. American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, December 15-19.
Su, H. (2002). Code-switching in Taiwan: Situational factors and the negotiation of participant roles. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 31. Stanford University, October 10-13.
Su, H. (2002). Syntactic constraints on code-switching between Mandarin and Taiwanese: The interaction between syntactic and social factors. The Fourteenth Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. University of Arizona, Tucson, May 17-19.
Recent Invited Talks
Investigating language policing through the lenses of language ideology and linguistic politeness(從支語警察現象看語言意識形態與禮貌行為). NTNU Wug Linguistics Club. National Taiwan Normal University. Oct 7, 2024.
Language attitudes and language ideologies (語言態度及語言意識形態 ). NTNU Wug Linguistics Club. National Taiwan Normal University. Oct 2, 2023.
The indigenization and enregisterment of Taiwan Mandarin (台灣華語的在地化及標記化). Linguistic Society of Taiwan. National Taiwan University. June 3, 2023.
What's language got to do with gender?: Exploring qizhi and tai. (語言跟性別有什麼關係?:從「氣質」和「台」談起). 台大婦女學程。National Taiwan University. April 19, 2023.
Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China. University of Queensland. Feb 15, 2023.
Discourses of same-sex marriage: Conceptual metaphors of family and the construction of mother identity (同性婚姻相關論述之言談分析:家庭相關隱喻及母親身份的建構). National United University. November 15, 2022.
Discourses of same-sex marriage: Conceptual metaphors of family and the construction of mother identity (同性婚姻相關論述之言談分析:家庭相關隱喻及母親身份的建構). NTU Linguistics Club . National Taiwan University. April 11, 2022.
Pride & Profit: 語 言 是文化認同的象徵,還是經濟資源和商品? 第十屆臺大華語文教學研究生論文發表會. National Taiwan University. March 26, 2022.
Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China. Symposium on Border Crossing, Mobility, and Language Ideology. National Cheng Chi University. December 18, 2021.
Politeness from a semiotic perspective (從符號學的角度談禮貌現象). Linguistic Society of Taiwan. National Central University. May 15, 2021.
Edited Book
Inger Mey, Ginger Pizer, Hsi-Yao Su, and Susan Szmania, (eds.), (2003). Texas Linguistic Forum 45: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium about Language and Society-Austin. Austin, TX: Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin.