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 Publications

Journal articles:

Yao, X. (2023). Commodification or shared ownership? A case study of Chinese communities in the linguistic landscape of Bendigo. Applied Linguistics Review, 14(3), 447-472. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2020-0045

Yao, X. (2023). Metrolingualism in online linguistic landscapes. International Journal of Multilingualism, 20(2), 214–230. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2021.1887197

Nie, P., & Yao, X. (2022). Tourism, commodification of Dongba script and perceptions of the Naxi minority in the linguistic landscape of Lijiang: A diachronic perspective. Applied Linguistics Review. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2021-0176 

Yao, X., & Gruba, P. (2022). Power through the semiotic landscape. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 43(5), 373–386. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1737090

Wu, B., & Yao, X. (2022). Leisure Lives and Children’s Play: A Tale of Two Ideals. Leisure Sciences, 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2022.2126911

McCosker, A., Yao, X., Albury, K., Maddox, A., Farmer, J., & Stoyanovich, J. (2022). Developing data capability with non-profit organisations using participatory methods. Big Data & Society, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221099882

Yao, X. (2021). Face masks, materiality, and exclusion in the COVID-19 semiotic landscape. Social Semiotics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2021.2016032 

Yao, X., & Gruba, P. (2020). A layered investigation of Chinese in the linguistic landscape: A case study of Box Hill, Melbourne. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(3), 302-336. http://doi.org/10.1075/aral.18049.yao

Yao, X. (2020). Material narration of nostalgia: The linguistic landscape of a rural township in Australia. Sociolinguistic Studies, 14(1-2), 7-31. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.37218

Yao, X. (2021). 语言景观研究的理论框架和研究方法 [Theoretical frameworks and research methods of linguistic landscape studies]. Journal of Beijing International Studies University/北京第二外国语学院学报, 04, 101-115. https://doi.org/10.12002/j.bisu.349

Yao, X., & Zhu, C. (2017). 中国学生在综合写作测试中的引用模式 [Chinese students' source use patterns in an integrated reading-to-writing test]. Overseas English/海外英语, 02, 84-87. 

Book reviews:

Davidson, L., Elder, C., Fan, J., Frost, K., Kelly, B., McNamara, T., Morton, J., Price, S., Storch, N., Thompson, C., Yao, X., & Diskin-Holdaway, C. (2022). Review of the book Language as symbolic power, by C. Kramsch. Applied Linguistics, 43(3), 613–619. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab027

Yao, X. (2020). Review of the book There isn’t only one way of being Chinese”: Language, culture, and identity in two Chinese community schools, by S. Ganassin. Language and Intercultural Communication, 21(1), 132-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2020.1808426

Yao, X. (2020). Review of the book Posthumanist applied linguistics, by A. Pennycook. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 266, 143-145. http://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-2116

Yao, X. (2020). Review of the book Language and subjectivity, by T. McNamara. Sociolinguistic Studies. 14(3), 395–397. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108639606

Yao, X. (2019, October 24). Review of the book Dialogues with ethnography, by J. Blommaert. Linguist List, 30, 4050.  https://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=36524919

Research reports:

Yao, X., McCosker, A., Albury, K., Maddox, A., & Farmer, J. (2021). Building data capacity in the not-for-profit sector: Interim report. Swinburne University of Technology. https://doi.org/10.26185/ey72-s303

McCosker A., Shaw F., Yao X., Albury K. (2022). A Data Capability Framework for the Not-for-Profit Sector. Swinburne University of Technology. https://doi.org/10.25916/h2s6-r178 

Research blogs:

Yao, X. (2022, July 12). Creativity and exclusion in China’s COVID-19 linguistic landscapes. Language on the Move. https://www.languageonthemove.com/creativity-and-exclusion-in-chinas-covid-19-linguistic-landscapes/