Guo-Qiang Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Guo-Qiang Liu is involved.
Articles
2015 The Confucius Institute Initiative in Reconstruction of China’s National Identity Journal of Language and Politics 14:6, pp. 778–800 | Article
This article examines China’s Confucius Institute program, a significant language policy/planning initiative. I adopt a political perspective in looking into the birth of this language policy initiative, focusing on its role in reconstructing China’s national identity in the context of its rise… read more
2012 Social identity and sound change: The case of WO in Shanghainese Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 35:2, pp. 203–214 | Article
Research has shown that language change is driven on one hand by forces internal to language itself such as grammar-internal systematic pressure, and on the other hand by social motives such as social identity. Language contact presents new features, but why is it that some of them are… read more