University of Macau

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Macau*

Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies

Edited by Jeremy Munday & Meifang Zhang

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Current Topics, 94] 2017. v, 151 pp. |

Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies: Special issue of Target 27:3 (2015)

Edited by Jeremy Munday & Meifang Zhang

Subjects Translation Studies

[Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, 27:3] 2015. | special issue

Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter & Mário Pinharanda-Nunes

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Creole Language Library, 46] 2012. xi, 375 pp. | edited volume

Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Vincent X. Wang

Subjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 207] 2011. xv, 199 pp. | monograph

Zhang, Xin 2026 Review of Multidisciplinary Insights into Translation Studies by Jozef Štefčík (2025)

FORUM | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review

Kim, Younhee & Nguyen Thi Xuan Hue 2026 Discourse, narrative and pragmatic development of children acquiring Korean in monolingual and bilingual contexts

Keywords: acquisition of Korean | developmental pragmatics | discourse competence | language socialization | narrative competence | pragmatic competence | speech acts

In: Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art, Choi, Soonja (ed.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 36] pp. 353–377

Montgomery, Martin 2026 Trump’s superlatives, his discursive absolutism, and the changing character of the public sphere

Keywords: public sphere | superlatives | absolutes | Donald Trump | validity claims

In: Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham & Peter Stockwell (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] pp. 24–35

Li, Songqing 2026 Affective roadscapes and beyond: Chronotopes, affective regimes, and traffic signage in Mudu, China

Keywords: affective roadscape | traffic signage | chronotope | affective regime | traffic regulation | value promotion | place branding

Linguistic Landscape | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article

Zhong, Chen & Fan Like 2026 Cognitive mechanisms in Chinese and English diagonal direction compounds encoding order: The competition between cognitive style and stability-identifiability interplay

Keywords: encoding order | figure-ground | stability | differentiation | egocentric style | object-centered style

Review of Cognitive Linguistics | Online First Publication, 23 pp. | article

Tsai, Cheng-Yu Edwin 2026 Exhaustifying conditionals

Keywords: Mandarin jiu | conditionals | minimal sufficiency | only | (recursive) exhaustification

Language and Linguistics 27:2 pp. 324–360 | article | open access

Ma, Everard Jun-Jie 2025 Review of Multilingual Crisis Communication: Insights from China edited by Jia Li & Jie Zhang (2025)

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 36:1 pp. 149–154 | book review

Tao, Jin & Yiling Xu 2025 Review of Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer edited by Petra Broomans & Jeanette den Toonder (2024)

Babel 72:1 pp. 130–133 | book review

Jiang, Siqi, Defeng Li & Victoria Lei Lai Cheng 2025 Review of Translation, Interpreting and Technological Change: Innovations in Research, Practice and Training edited by Marion Winters, Sharon Deane-Cox & Ursula Böser (2024)

Target 37:2 pp. 292–297 | book review

Ma, Everard Jun-Jie 2025 Review of Introducing Chinese discourse: Methods of analysis empowered by Systemic Functional Linguistics by Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma (2025)

Functions of Language 32:3 pp. 382–385 | book review

Mathews, Peter D. 2025 Arguing with Virginia Woolf: Metamodernism in contemporary Australian fiction

Keywords: metamodernism | Virginia Woolf | contemporary Australian fiction | modernist legacy | literary ethics | 메타모더니즘 | 버지니아 울프 | 현대 호주 소설 | 모더니즘의 유산 | 문학윤리

InContext 5:2 pp. 60–76 | article | open access

Walker, Callum, Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund & Victoria Lei 2025 Screen eyetracking

In: Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies, Rojo López, Ana María & Ricardo Muñoz Martín (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 10] pp. 213–234

Ma, Jun-Jie 2024 Review of The future of language: How technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate by Philip Seargeant (2024)

Journal of Language and Politics 24:2 pp. 360–363 | book review

Xu, Minhui & Tianze Duan 2024 Networking in online collaborative translation: An ANT perspective of translating Horizon, Bright Moon, Sabre on Wuxiaworld

Keywords: actor-network theory | online collaborative translation | instant interaction | Wuxia­world | Horizon | Bright Moon | Sabre | Théorie de l’acteur-réseau | traduction collaborative en ligne | interaction instantanée | Wuxia­world | Horizon | Bright Moon | Sabre

FORUM 22:1 p. 96 | article

Huang, Xinjunrong & Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai 2024 The sole relative marker

Keywords: relative construction | exclusive focus | definiteness | syntactic movement | Mandarin

Language and Linguistics 25:2 pp. 318–350 | article | open access

Bu, Weimei & Hongyong Liu 2024 臘羅彝語的度量短語 [Measure phrases in Lalo Yi]

Keywords: 臘羅彝語 | 度量短語 | 單調性 | 準切分結構 | 定中結構 | Lalo Yi dialect | measure phrase | monotonicity | pseudo-partitive | attributive

Language and Linguistics 25:3 pp. 351–369 | article | open access

Wang, Binhua & Yifeng Sun 2025 The creation of new academic knowledge spaces through the repatriated self-translation of foreign-language texts: The case of migrant historian Ray Huang

Keywords: migrant scholar | Ray Huang | historical monograph | foreign-language texts | repatriated self-translation

Target 36:4 pp. 615–646 | article

Lan, Ge & Nanxi Bian 2024 Review of The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity: Theoretical Foundation, Descriptive Research Findings, Application edited by D. Biber, B. Gray, S. Staples & J. Egbert (2021)

Register Studies 5:2 pp. 240–245 | book review

Minhui, Xu 2023 The pivotal role of translators’ research in literary translation: A case study on Jeffrey C. Kinkley

Keywords: translator’s research | translator’s visibility | translational trust | Jeffrey Kinkley | literary translation | Recherche par les traducteurs | visibilité du traducteur | confiance et traduction | Jeffrey C. Kinkley | traduction littéraire

Babel 69:2 pp. 266–284 | article

Venkatesan, Hari 2023 Technology preparedness and translator training: Implications for curricula

Keywords: translator training | computer-assisted translation | Machine Translation | translation pedagogy | Chinese-English translation

Babel 69:5 pp. 666–703 | article

Lu, Gaoqiang & Yating Yu 2023 The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media: A corpus-assisted critical approach

Keywords: corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis | COVID-19 vaccines | crisis discourse | the Chinese and the American news media

Journal of Language and Politics 23:4 pp. 520–543 | article

Wang, Yike 2022 Review of The Situatedness of Translation Studies: Temporal and Geographical Dynamics of Theorization edited by Luc van Doorslaer & Ton Naaijkens (2021)

Translation in Society 1:2 pp. 251–256 | book review

Li, Xiao & Hongyong Liu 2022 Dimensional adjectives in Nuosu Yi

Keywords: Nuosu Yi | degrees | dimensional adjectives | degree constructions

Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:1 pp. 60–88 | article

Wang, Shan & Lei Tang 2022 Who predicted what?: A comparative study of two newspapers in the Chinese Mainland and Taiwan

Keywords: Greater Chinese Language | vocabulary | predict | newspapers | the Chinese Mainland | Taiwan | 中文 | 詞匯 | 預測 | 大陸 | 報紙 | 臺灣

Chinese Language and Discourse 14:1 pp. 136–159 | article

Rautajoki, Hanna & Richard Fitzgerald 2022 Populating ‘solidarity’ in political debate: Interrelational strategies of persuasion within the European Parliament in the aftermath of the Brexit

Keywords: Brexit | European Parliament | European Union | membership categorisation analysis | narrative positioning | parliamentary debate | solidarity

Journal of Language and Politics 21:5 pp. 763–784 | article

Tam, Ho I (Anna) & Barry Lee Reynolds 2022 The relationship between extramural English engagement and the vocabulary size of L1 Cantonese speakers in Macau

Keywords: Macau | extramural English | vocabulary size | extensive reading | language of instruction | video viewing

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 174:1 pp. 49–82 | article

Wang, Shan & Shaoming Wang 2022 基于华语流行歌曲的词汇附带习得研究 [A study of incidental vocabulary acquisition based on Chinese popular songs]

Keywords: 歌曲 | 语料库 | 词汇附带习得 | 覆盖率 | 词频 | 《汉语水平词汇与汉字等级大纲》 | song | corpus | incidental vocabulary acquisition | coverage | word frequency | Syllabus of Graded Words and Characters for Chinese Proficiency

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 57:1 pp. 21–57 | article

Xu, Yuhang 2022 海豐閩語持續體貌標記的特徵與來源 [The characteristics and sources of the durative aspectual markers in Haifeng Min dialects]

Keywords: 海豐閩語 | 客家話 | 持續體貌標記 | 語言接觸 | Haifeng Min | Hakka | durative aspectual markers | language contact

Language and Linguistics 23:3 pp. 492–520 | article | open access

Du, Kexin 2021 Review of Communication across cultures: The linguistics of texts in translation by Basil Hatim (2020)

Babel 67:4 pp. 526–531 | book review

Chan, Brian Hok-Shing 2021 Translanguaging or code-switching?: Reassessing mixing of English in Hong Kong Cantonese

Keywords: translanguaging | code-switching | languagising | Hong Kong Cantonese | repair | radio talk

Chinese Language and Discourse 13:2 pp. 167–196 | article

Li, Wendong & Yandan Zhu 2021 

Keywords: second language socialization | study abroad | social network analysis | conversation analysis

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:3 pp. 371–374 | book review

Kim, Younhee & Andrew P. Carlin 2021 “How was your day?”: Development of Interactional Competence located in Today Narrative sequences

Keywords: longitudinal CA | Interactional Competence | today narrative | bilingual acquisition | list construction | parent-child interaction | assessment response | story prefaces

Pragmatics 32:2 pp. 246–273 | article | open access

Jin, Ying & Dennis Tay 2021 Discretion: The final particle ou and its functions in medical advice-giving

Keywords: ou | discretion | conversation analysis | interpersonal pragmatics | 嘔 | 慎重表達 | 會話分析 | 人際語用學

Chinese Language and Discourse 12:2 pp. 158–180 | article

Wu, Chenggang & Juan Zhang 2021 The role of emotion in language development among bilingual children with autism spectrum disorders: A critical void

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 pp. 87–91 | article commentary

Montgomery, Martin 2020 Populism in performance?: Trump on the stump and his audience

Keywords: applause | audience response | conversationalisation | discourse | discourse plane | gesture | live audience | political speeches | rhetoric

Journal of Language and Politics 19:5 pp. 733–765 | article

Yang Shanshan, Li Defeng & Lei Victoria Lai Cheng 2020 The impact of source text presence on simultaneous interpreting performance in fast speeches: Will it help trainees or not?

Keywords: SI performance | fast speech | ST presence | trainee interpreters | performances en interprétation simultanée | débit de discours rapide | accès au texte source | interprètes stagiaires

Babel 66:4/5 pp. 588–603 | article

Su Wenchao & Li Defeng 2020 Exploring processing patterns of Chinese-English sight translation: An eye-tracking study

Keywords: processing patterns | sight translation | eye tracking | translation direction | modèles de traitement | traduction à vue | oculométrie | sens de la traduction

Babel 66:6 p. 999 | article

Zhang, Hong & Brian Hok-Shing Chan 2020 Protest graffiti, social movements and changing participation frameworks: The case of Macao

Keywords: protest graffiti | participation framework | social movement | political discourse | multimodality | Macao

Journal of Language and Politics 20:4 pp. 515–538 | article

Martins, Custódio & Mário Pinharanda-Nunes 2020 The Lexical Aspect Hypothesis: Off-line evidence from Chinese learners of European Portuguese as an L2

Keywords: Aspect Hypothesis | SLA | L2 verbal morphology | Portuguese | Chinese

In: Linguistic approaches to portuguese as an additional language, Molsing, Karina Veronica, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna & Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] pp. 109–148

Zhang, Jingwei, Yanyong Zhang & Daming Xu 2019 A variationist approach to tone categorization in Cantonese

Keywords: variationist sociolinguistics | Hong Kong Cantonese | sociophonetics | tonal categorization | 變異社會語言學 | 香港粵語 | 社會語音學 | 聲調歸類

Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1 pp. 1–16 | article

Su, Wenchao & Defeng Li 2019 Identifying translation problems in English-Chinese sight translation: An eye-tracking experiment

Keywords: translation problem triggers | cognitive load | eye-tracking | sight translation | linear mixed-effects regression modeling

Translation and Interpreting Studies 14:1 pp. 110–134 | article

Liu Xiaodong & Li Defeng 2019 Isabel Lacruz and Riitta Jääskeläinen (Eds). Innovation and Expansion in Translation Process Research

Babel 65:5 pp. 719–724 | book review

Moutinho, Ricardo 2019 The dynamic layering of relational pairs in L2 classrooms: The inextricable relationship between sequential and categorial analysis

Keywords: membership categorization analysis | sequential analysis | ethnomethodology | conversation analysis | second language classroom | Portuguese as a second language | praxiological studies | ethnomethodological studies of work

Pragmatics 29:4 pp. 571–594 | article | open access

Ding, Chen & Barry Lee Reynolds 2020 The effects of L1 congruency, L2 proficiency, and the collocate-node relationship on the processing of L2 English collocations by L1-Chinese EFL learners

Keywords: L1 congruency | L2 proficiency | collocate-node relationship | collocation processing | EFL learners | formulaic language | L1 Chinese | L2 English | L2 collocations

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:2 pp. 331–357 | article

Zhang, Jingwei 2019 Tone mergers in Cantonese: Evidence from Hong Kong, Macao, and Zhuhai

Keywords: sociophonetics | tone merger | contact | standardization | Putonghua | 社会语音学 | 声调合并 | 接触 | 标准化 | 普通话

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:1 pp. 28–49 | article

Yang Shanshan 2019 Callum Walker and Federico M. Federici (eds). Eye Tracking and Multidisciplinary Studies on Translation

Babel 65:1 pp. 137–143 | book review

Zhang Xiaoyu 2019 Renée Desjardins. Translation and Social Media: in theory, in training and in professional practice

Babel 65:3 pp. 471–475 | book review

Xu, Minhui & Jing Yu 2019 Sociological formation and reception of translation: The case of Kinkley’s translation of Biancheng

Keywords: sociology of translation | sociological formation process | reception | literary translation | Border Town

Translation and Interpreting Studies 14:3 pp. 333–350 | article

Chan, Brian Hok-Shing 2018 Single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese: A cognitive-constructionist approach

Keywords: Preposition | postposition | coverb | copula | code-switching | structural borrowing | convergence | 前置詞（介詞） | 後置詞（介詞） | 方位詞 | 連動詞 | 關係詞 | 語碼轉換 | 外借結構 | 結構合流

Chinese Language and Discourse 9:1 pp. 46–74 | article

Gan, Zhengdong, Sylvia S. L. Ieong, Yuanlian Su & Jinbo He 2018 Understanding Chinese EFL teachers’ conceptions and practices of assessment: Implications for teacher assessment literacy development

Keywords: EFL teacher conceptions of assessment | classroom assessment practices | Chinese EFL teachers | EFL teacher assessment literacy development | student-centred assessment

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 41:1 p. 4 | article

Shi, Jianguo & Yuanyuan Zhang 2018 以多变异刺激感知汉语声调的课堂实验 [Perception of Mandarin tones: Effects of high-variability stimuli]

Keywords: 多变异刺激 | 声调教学 | 声调感知 | 上声低平调 | 中小学汉语 | high-variability stimuli | tone teaching | tone perception | the 3rd tone in low-level pitch | K-12 Chinese

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 53:1 pp. 75–91 | article

Shih, Ying-Chun & Barry Lee Reynolds 2018 Exploring strong and weak EFL readers’ strategy use after a reading strategy and extensive reading instructional intervention: A think-aloud analysis

Keywords: think-aloud | reading strategy instruction | extensive reading program | global strategy | local strategy | comprehension | pensamiento en voz alta | enseñanza de estrategias de lectura | programa de lectura extensiva | estrategia global | estrategia local | comprensión

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31:1 pp. 345–377 | article

Wu, Peisha & Shulin Yu 2018 Understanding the use of mediational means in academic writing: A case study of a novice EFL academic writer

Keywords: mediational means | writing strategies | sociocultural theory | academic writing | tipos de mediación | estrategias de escritura | teoría sociocultural | escritura académica

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31:1 pp. 378–407 | article

Zhang, Meifang & Hanting Pan 2017 Institutional power in and behind discourse: A case study of SARS notices and their translations used in Macao

Keywords: discourse analysis | language | power | translation studies

In: Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies, Munday, Jeremy & Meifang Zhang (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 94] pp. 63–81

Munday, Jeremy & Meifang Zhang 2017 Introduction

In: Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies, Munday, Jeremy & Meifang Zhang (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 94] pp. 1–10

Montgomery, Martin 2017 Post-truth politics?: Authenticity, populism and the electoral discourses of Donald Trump

Keywords: validity claims | discourse | sociolinguistic coding orientation | truth | truthfulness | sincerity | boasting | authenticity | rhetoric | orality and speaking style

Journal of Language and Politics 16:4 pp. 619–639 | article

Fong, Ronald 2017 Chinese as satellite-framed: A constructional-cognitive interpretation

Keywords: satellite-framed | catenative | motion-directional construction | equipollently-framed | constructionalization

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:2 pp. 233–258 | article

Xu, Daming 2016 Speech community theory and the language / dialect debate

Keywords: speech community theory | language and dialect | Cantonese | communication and identity formation | language attitude

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1 p. 8 | article

Pan, Hanting & Meifang Zhang 2016 Translating for a healthier gaming industry: Keywords and translation in Macao’s gaming discourse

Keywords: corpus | Macao | critical discourse analysis | gaming | discourse | translation shifts | framing | gambling

Translation Spaces 5:2 pp. 163–180 | article

Doman, Evelyn 2015 Chapter 11. Implications of the Developmental Stages of Language Acquisition for Classroom Teaching

In: Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory, Baten, Kristof, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman & Mieke Van Herreweghe (eds.) [Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 4] pp. 239–262

Zhang, Qingwen, Zhenquan Cheng, Sze-Wing Tang & Hongyong Liu 2015 Indefinite article or numeral one?: A Study of iʔ5 ‘one’ in Shiposheng

Keywords: indefinite article | numeral for ‘one’ | demonstrative | numeral

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2:1 pp. 33–56 | article

Zhang, Meifang & Hanting Pan 2015 Institutional power in and behind discourse: A case study of SARS notices and their translations used in Macao

Keywords: discourse analysis | translation studies | language | power

Target 27:3 pp. 387–405 | article

Munday, Jeremy & Meifang Zhang 2015 Introduction

Target 27:3 pp. 325–334 | introduction

Yu, Shulin 2016 What factors shape the collaborative pattern of group interaction during peer feedback in the L2 writing classroom?

Keywords: L2 writing | peer feedback | group interaction | L2 learning | small group work

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28:2 pp. 618–640 | article

Jianguo, Shi 2014 Review of Love and War in Ancient China – Voices from the Shijing by William S-Y Wang (2013)

Chinese Language and Discourse 5:2 pp. 285–287 | book review

Kelen, Christopher 2014 Chapter 5. Process and product, means and ends: Creative Writing in Macao

In: Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel, Disney, Dan (ed.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 19] p. 75

Salaberry, M. Rafael & Custodio Martins 2014 Cross-linguistic transfer of core aspectual conceptualizations in Portuguese and Spanish: Theoretical and methodological factors

In: Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact, Amaral, Patrícia & Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 1] pp. 335–355

Tse, Shek Kam, Hui Li & Shing On Leung 2014 Tense and temporality: How young children express time in Cantonese

In: Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children, Hua, Zhu & Lixian Jin (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 60] pp. 35–56

Wang, Yong & Jie Xu 2013 A systemic typology of existential and possessive constructions

Functions of Language 20:1 pp. 1–30 | article

Baxter, Alan N. 2012 Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole Portuguese

In: Pidgins and Creoles in Asia, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 38] pp. 115–149

Tse, Shek Kam, Hui Li & Shing On Leung 2012 Tense and temporality: How young children express time in Cantonese

Keywords: Cantonese | time expression | young children

Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1 pp. 35–56 | article

Xi Yan, & Andrew Moody 2010 Language and society in Macao: A review of sociolinguistic studies on Macao in the past three decades

Keywords: bilingualism/multilingualism | Macao | sociolinguistics

Chinese Language and Discourse 1:2 pp. 293–324 | article

Cardoso, Hugo C. 2010 The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese

Keywords: Indo-Portuguese | Norteiro varieties | African slave population | East African languages | Goa | sociodemographics

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:1 p. 95 | article

Baxter, Alan N. 2010 Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole Portuguese

Keywords: natural gender | bound morphology | gender inflection | Malacca Creole Portuguese

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:1 pp. 120–154 | article

Zhang, Meifang 2009 Social context and translation of public notices

Babel 55:2 pp. 142–152 | article

Baxter, Alan N. 2008 5. The development of variable NP plural agreement in a restructured African variety of Portuguese

In: Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève & Armin Schwegler (eds.) [Creole Language Library, 27] p. 97

Lai, Fei Loi & Bryce T. McIntyre 2000 The Internet in Macau: A case study of telecommunications structure and policy in a former Portuguese colonial enclave

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:1 pp. 63–78 | article

Venkatesan, Hari Technology preparedness and translator training: Implications for curricula

Keywords: translator training | computer-assisted translation | machine translation | translation pedagogy | Chinese-English translation

Babel | Online First Publication, 38 pp. | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.