National University of Singapore

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

Language Contact with Chinese: Special issue of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Language 38:1 (2023)

Edited by Zhiming Bao

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

[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 38:1] 2023. | special issue

The Semantics of Chinese Music: Analysing selected Chinese musical concepts

Adrian Tien

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Semantics | Semiotics | Sino-Tibetan languages

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 5] 2015. xv, 303 pp. |

Who’s really normal? Language and sexuality in public space: Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 4:2 (2015)

Edited by Mie Hiramoto

Subjects Discourse studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Journal of Language and Sexuality, 4:2] 2015. | special issue

Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World. Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 (2014)

Edited by Mie Hiramoto & Joseph Sung-Yul Park

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 24:2] 2014. | special issue

The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific

Edited by Lionel Wee, Robbie B.H. Goh & Lisa Lim

Subjects English linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Studies in World Language Problems, 4] 2013. ix, 322 pp. | edited volume

Media Intertextualities

Edited by Mie Hiramoto

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Benjamins Current Topics, 37] 2012. v, 144 pp. | edited volume

Media Intertextualities: Semiotic mediation across time and space. Special Issue of Pragmatics and Society 1:2 (2010)

Edited by Mie Hiramoto

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics and Society, 1:2] 2010. | special issue

Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese

Yosuke Sato

Subjects Austronesian languages | Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 155] 2010. xiii, 159 pp. | monograph

Negotiation of Contingent Talk: The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa

Emi Morita

Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 137] 2005. xvi, 240 pp. | monograph

Separate and Unequal: Judicial rhetoric and women's rights

Huang Hoon Chng

Subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 3] 2002. viii, 156 pp. | monograph

The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The formation of the resultative construction and its effects

Yuzhi Shi

Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 59] 2002. xiv, 262 pp. | monograph

Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, discourse, and grammar

Hongyin Tao

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 5] 1996. xvi, 226 pp. | monograph

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka & Alexander D. Smith 2026 Bornean passives in comparative perspective

In: New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] pp. 322–347

Han, Chao, Xiaolei Lu, Weiwei Wang & Shirong Chen 2025 Applying n-gram-based evaluation metrics to assess human interpreting: A battery of replications with internal meta‑analysis

Keywords: replication | internal meta-analysis | automatic assessment | interpreting assessment | machine translation | evaluation metrics

Interpreting 28:1 pp. 58–90 | article

Han, Chao & Yueqing Wang 2025 Conducting replication in translation and interpreting studies: Stakeholders’ perceptions, practices, and expectations

Keywords: replication | quantitative studies | translation and interpreting studies | cumulative science | postpositivism

Target 37:3 pp. 444–484 | article

Chen, Yi-Chiao 2025 Examining the impact of footnotes and cultural memory references on empathic evocation through translation: A socio-cognitive exploration of reader reception

Keywords: footnotes | cultural memory references | empathic evocation | Alfian Sa’at | sense of involvement | notes de bas de page | références à la mémoire culturelle | évocation empathique | Alfian Sa’at | sentiment d’implication

Babel 72:2 pp. 148–174 | article

Werner, Valentin, Mie Hiramoto & Paul Flanagan 2025 Language and pop culture: Setting the agenda

Journal of Language and Pop Culture 1:1 pp. 1–17 | introduction

Han, Chao, Shirong Chen & Jia Feng 2025 Modeling rater cognition in translation assessment: An exploratory investigation based on think-aloud, eye-tracking, and interview data

Keywords: translation assessment | rater cognition | scoring process | translation reception | eye-tracking | think-aloud protocols

Target 37:4 pp. 590–626 | article

Huang, Nick, Li Lin, Kunmei Han, Jia Wen Hing, Luwen Cao, Vincent Ooi & Zhiming Bao 2025 Treebanks and World Englishes: A Singapore English perspective

Keywords: treebank | corpus | World Englishes | syntactic parsing | variation | Singapore English | New Englishes | language contact

English World-Wide 46:1 p. 93 | article

Chen, Yi-Chiao 2025 An eco-translatology-based comparison of localization in simplified and traditional Chinese locales: A case study of Hearthstone

Keywords: localization | Hearthstone | eco-translatology | entertainment | transcreation strategies | traditional Chinese | simplified Chinese

Digital Translation 12:1 pp. 39–61 | article

E, Marissa K. L. & Sabine Tan 2025 Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore

Keywords: environmental communication | critical multimodal discourse analysis | neoliberalism | authoritarian environmentalism | neoliberal conservation

Journal of Language and Politics 25:1 pp. 1–20 | article

Gong, Heng, Feng Cao & Lingling Liu 2025 Interactive metadiscourse across languages and writer groups: A comparison among L1 Chinese, L2 English and L1 English research articles

Keywords: English as a lingua franca | interactive metadiscourse | L1 Chinese | multilingual | research articles

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:3 pp. 316–351 | article

Cai, Zhiyu & Yizhu Li 2025 Rethinking translation and interpreting technology in the AI era: Beyond technological linearity

Translation and Interpreting Studies 20:3 pp. 467–477 | review article

Chen, Yi-Chiao 2025 A reader-based investigation into empathic evocation through three translation formats

Keywords: contextual information | reader-based investigation | translation | evocation | empathy

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 13:2, 25 pp. | article

Schneider, Edgar W. 2025 Pluricentricity versus pluriareality?: Areal patterns in the English-speaking world

Keywords: epicenter | language perception | language production | national varieties | pluriareality | pluricentricity | regional dialects | Southern American English | World Englishes

In: Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp & Ryan Durgasingh (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 32] p. 90

Li, Yizhu 2025 Exploring the ethical perspectives of translation students and professional translators on translation technology: A Q-methodological study

Keywords: ethical perspectives | translation technology | translation students | professional translators | Q methodology

Translation Spaces 14:1 pp. 74–98 | article

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka 2025 Toba Batak manang : Notes on its uses and form

Keywords: Toba Batak | disjunction | interrogatives | indefinites | polysemy | sound change

Studies in Language 49:2 pp. 478–500 | article

Chen, Yi-Chiao 2025 Translating affective manifestation: Analyzing tensions in Alfian Sa’at’s Malay Sketches

Keywords: affective manifestation | reception | tension | empathy | mediator | contextual lacuna | manifestation affective | réception | tension | empathie | médiateur | lacune contextuelle

FORUM 23:2 pp. 141–160 | article

Han, Chao & Shirong Chen 2024 Evaluating written versus audio feedback in formative assessment of consecutive interpreting: An exploratory qualitative investigation

Keywords: formative assessment | feedback | written feedback | audio feedback | interpreting | évaluation formative | retour | retour écrit | retour audio | interprétation

FORUM 22:2 pp. 182–205 | article

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka & Anne Nguyen 2024 Ingredients of excess: A study of Vietnamese quá

Keywords: degree constructions | excessive | comparative | malefactive | not-at-issue meaning | exclamative | mirative | multifunctionality | language contact | constructional borrowing | semantic change | grammaticalization | diachronic semantics | Vietnamese | Sino-Vietnamese | Middle Chinese

Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:1 pp. 1–33 | article

Hu, Bei 2023 Flowing to the reception side: A trade-off model of translation acceptance

Keywords: translation reception | reader expectations | trust | trade-off model | translated Chinese foreign affairs discourse

In: Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products, Feinauer, Ilse, Amanda Marais & Marius Swart (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 163] pp. 183–206

Chen, Yi-Chiao 2023 Foreignness as a border-crossing challenge: A Singaporean case

Keywords: foreignness | untranslatability of words | untransferability of feelings | empathy | reader-based insight | étrangèreté | l’intraduisibilité des mots | le caractère non transférable des sentiments | empathie | une vision émanant du lectorat

FORUM 21:1 pp. 1–24 | article

Bao, Zhiming, Ruiqing Shen & Kunmei Han 2023 Languages and language contact in China

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 pp. 1–13 | introduction

Hu, Bei 2023 Translating intercultural interactions in the Netflix-branded film American Factory

Keywords: Netflix | streaming media translation | translator intervention | translation reception | audio-visual intercultural communication

Target 35:3 pp. 378–403 | article

Hing, Jia Wen 2023  Pún and tio̍h in Penang Hokkien

Keywords: heritage language | Penang Hokkien | Malay | Chinese dialects | Southern Min dialect | overseas Chinese

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 pp. 151–169 | article

Tse, Vincent Wai Sum, Jasper Zhao Zhen Wu & Andre Joseph Theng 2023 “Money can buy health”: Risk and protection in Hong Kong’s COVID-19 advertisement-scape

Keywords: advertisements | affect | counter-affect | risk | protection | COVID-19 pandemic | Hong Kong

Pragmatics and Society 14:2 pp. 257–280 | article

Smedinga, Marthe, Alan Cienki & Henk W. de Regt 2023 Metaphors as tools for understanding in science communication among experts and to the public

Keywords: Science communication | scientific understanding | metaphor analysis | epigenetic

Metaphor and the Social World 13:2 pp. 248–268 | article | open access

Lee, Nala H. 2023 The early Baba Malay continuum

Keywords: Baba Malay | creole | continuum | lexicon | morphology | syntax | sociolinguistics | variation

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:2 pp. 339–364 | article

Lee, Nala H. 2023 Variability or its loss in creole endangerment: The case of Baba Malay

Keywords: creole | language endangerment | variation | lexifier | substrate | lexicon | syntax

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:1 pp. 59–82 | article

Shen, Ruiqing 2023 閩南語的去鼻化音變與原始沿海閩語的清響音 [Denasalization in Southern Min and voiceless sonorants in Proto-Coastal-Min]

Keywords: 音變 | 閩南語 | 去鼻化 | 清響音 | 原始沿海閩語 | sound change | southern Min | denasalization | voiceless sonorants | Proto-Coastal-Min

Language and Linguistics 24:3 pp. 515–539 | article | open access

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka 2022 Mandarin exhaustive focus shì and the syntax of discourse congruence

In: Particles in German, English and Beyond, Gergel, Remus, Ingo Reich & Augustin Speyer (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 224] pp. 323–354

Theng, Andre Joseph, Vincent Wai Sum Tse & Jasper Zhao Zhen Wu 2022 Complicating solidarity: The Hong Kong Covid-19 landscape

Keywords: Linguistic Landscape | Covid-19 | solidarity | Hong Kong | advertisement | stance

Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 pp. 264–280 | article

Lee, Cher Leng & Daoning Zhu 2022 Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows: When code-switching manifests as impoliteness

Keywords: impoliteness | code-switching | television talk show | Hong Kong | Cantonese | rapport management

Pragmatics 33:2 pp. 237–259 | article | open access

Lee, Cher Leng 2022 Singapore hawker centres: A linguistic landscape of identity, diversity, and continuity

Keywords: Singapore hawker centres | linguistic landscape | multilingualism | heritage | identity | language ecology

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 34:1 pp. 23–55 | article

Starr, Rebecca Lurie 2022 Production and evaluation of sociolinguistic variation in Mandarin Chinese among children in Singapore

Keywords: language variation and change | acquisition of variation | dialect contact | language attitudes | child language acquisition | transnational migration | Southeast Asia | Mandarin Chinese

In: Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston & Xiaoshi Li (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 28] pp. 43–70

Park, Mihi 2022 Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of L3 variation: A comparison of speech and writing

Keywords: third language | argument realization | variation | animacy | multilingualism | transfer | Korean | early bilinguals

In: Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston & Xiaoshi Li (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 28] pp. 71–96

Wee, Lionel 2022 Globalization

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment, Brisard, Frank, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras & Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 25] p. 91

Hu, Bei 2022 Trust to thrive: On academic publishing in interpreting and translation studies

Interpreting 24:2 pp. 309–317 | discussion

Zen, Evynurul Laily & Rebecca Lurie Starr 2021 Variation and contact-induced change in Javanese phonology among multilingual children in Indonesia

Keywords: phonological variation | Javanese | Indonesia | language acquisition | multilingualism | language contact | variasi fonologis | Bahasa Jawa | Bahasa Indonesia | pemerolehan bahasa | multilingualisme | dan kontak bahasa | variasi fonologis | Basa Jawi | Basa Indonesia | pikantukipun basa | multilingualisme | lan kontak basa

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 p. 95 | article

Pak, Vincent 2021 

Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:2 pp. 211–215 | book review

Starr, Rebecca Lurie & Tianxiao Wang 2021 Navigating variation amid contested norms and societal shifts: A case study of two L2 Mandarin speakers in Singapore

Keywords: second language acquisition | sociolinguistic variation | language change | lifespan change | Mandarin Chinese | Singapore

In: Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy & Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 26] pp. 199–226

Tan, Peter K. W. 2021 Naming as styling: Inauthenticity in building names in Singapore

Keywords: authenticity | onomastic theory | postmodernism | Singapore | true name

In: Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] pp. 167–188

Hiramoto, Mie 2021 Reflections on the Journal of Language and Sexuality and the view from Japan

Keywords: Japanese women’s language | xxx kotoba | (non-)normativities | language ideologies

Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:1 pp. 37–47 | article

Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath, Abigail C. Cohn & Rebecca Lurie Starr 2021 Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia: An introduction

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 pp. 83–94 | introduction

Wong, Jock & Marshal Or 2021 “Is beauty only skin deep?”: The conceptualization of ‘beauty’ in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: beauty | piàoliàng | měi | natural semantic metalanguage | Mandarin Chinese

International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 pp. 35–61 | article

Pak, Vincent & Mie Hiramoto 2021 For family, for friends, for (true) love: Negotiating discourses of love within the LGBTQ community in Singapore

Keywords: Singapore | Christianity | TrueLove.Is | Pink Dot | Systemic Functional Linguistics | homophobia | discourse analysis

Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:2 pp. 105–128 | article

Lazar, Michelle M. 2021 Ideological manoeuvres in and around Pink Dot: A geopolitics of gender/sexuality in Asia

Keywords: ideological manoeuvres | geopolitics of gender/sexuality | Singapore | Hong Kong | Pink Dot | politics of prudence

Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:2 pp. 202–210 | article

Rowlett, Benedict J. L. & Christian Go 2021 Tracing trans-regional discursive flows in Pink Dot Hong Kong promotional videos: (Homo)normativities and nationalism, activism and ambivalence

Keywords: Asian LGBT+ activism | Pink Dot | Hong Kong | normativities | queer Sinophone cultures | multimodal discourse analysis | homonationalism | citizenship

Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:2 pp. 157–179 | article

Auracher, Jan 2021 Sound-meaning relations in Japanese Tanka: Formant dispersion of vowels is associated with dominance and activity

Keywords: sound iconicity | sound symbolism | formant dispersion | emotion | dominance | activity | arousal

Scientific Study of Literature 11:1 pp. 3–34 | article

Brooke, Mark 2020 Applying semantic gravity wave profiles to develop undergraduate students’ academic literacy

Keywords: Legitimation Code Theory | semantic gravity | knowledge | Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:3 pp. 228–246 | article

Shi, Yuzhi 2020 Bidirectional transfers of the ditransitive construction in Chinese

Keywords: ditransitive construction | construction grammar | English and Chinese | transfer verb | usage-based model

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 pp. 416–439 | article

Lee, Cher Leng & Chiew Pheng Phua 2020 Singapore bilingual education: One policy, many interpretations

Keywords: Singapore | bilingualism | Mandarin | Chinese language | education

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1/2 p. 90 | article

Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong & Mie Hiramoto 2020 Two Englishes diverged in the Philippines?: A substratist account of Manila Chinese English

Keywords: Manila Chinese English | Sino-Philippine language contact | corpus linguistics | intergroup variation | world Englishes | Philippine Englishes

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:1 pp. 125–159 | article

Wong Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel & Rebecca Lurie Starr 2020 Vowel system or vowel systems?: Variation in the monophthongs of Philippine Hybrid Hokkien in Manila

Keywords: mixed languages | language contact | language variation | sociophonetics | vowel systems | Philippine Hybrid Hokkien | Chinese Filipinos | Lánnang-uè | Lannang

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:2 pp. 253–292 | article

Csomay, Eniko & Siew Mei Wu 2020 Language variation in university classrooms: A corpus-driven geographical perspective

Keywords: register variation | geographical context | university classroom talk | discourse organization

Register Studies 2:1 pp. 131–165 | article

Lee, Nala H. 2021 Style variation in the second formant: What does it mean to be “refined” in Baba Malay?

Keywords: matched-guise | creole | style | register | acoustic | perceptual | sound symbolism | Baba Malay

Language Ecology 4:1 pp. 115–130 | article

Xu, Duoduo 2019 Yang, Bingjun & Wang, Rui. 2017. Language Policy: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach. London: Routledge.

Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1 pp. 120–126 | book review

Park, Joseph Sung-Yul 2019 Digital media communication, intellectual property, and the commodification of language: The discursive construction of fansub work

Keywords: fansubbing | political economy | intellectual property | copyright | language ideology | South Korea

Language, Culture and Society 1:2 pp. 244–266 | article

Park, Mihi & Rebecca Lurie Starr 2019 The acquisition of L3 variation among early bilinguals: The roles of L2 experience, home language and linguistic factors

Keywords: multilingualism | variation | argument realization

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:5 pp. 657–689 | article

Lazar, Michelle M. 2018 Gender, sexuality, and semioscapes

Linguistic Landscape 4:3 pp. 320–327 | in brief

Lee, Nala H. 2018 Baba Malay: Diverging trends in two ecologies

Keywords: Baba Malay | Southeast Asia | Austronesian | Sino-Tibetan | documentation | endangerment | ecology | morphology | syntax

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:1 pp. 136–173 | article

Hiramoto, Mie & Yanning Lai 2017 Building a body of followers: Neoliberalism and online discourse of fitness and masculinity

Keywords: spornosexuality | masculinity | neoliberalism | globalization | mediatization | multimodal analysis | Instagram | Singapore

Journal of Language and Sexuality 6:2 pp. 262–291 | article

Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong 2018 Language contact in the Philippines: The history and ecology from a Chinese Filipino perspective

Keywords: Chinese Filipino | language contact | language ecology | Philippine contact languages | sociohistory

Language Ecology 1:2 pp. 185–212 | article

Wang, Jiayu 2017 Representing Chinese nationalism/patriotism through President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” Discourse

Keywords: nationalism | the “Chinese Dream” | Xi Jinping | representations | critical discourse analysis | Chinese political discourse | the Chinese Communist Party | political discourse analysis

Journal of Language and Politics 16:6 pp. 830–848 | article

Goh, Huishan A. 2016 Moving forward in time: Spatial construal of time in Singapore English

Keywords: Singapore English | spatiotemporal metaphor | contact linguistics | bilingualism | conceptual metaphor

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:1 pp. 1–15 | article

Wee, Lionel 2016 Situating affect in linguistic landscapes

Linguistic Landscape 2:2 pp. 105–126 | article

Goddard, Cliff, Anna Wierzbicka & Jock Wong 2017 “Walking” and “running” in English and German: The conceptual semantics of verbs of human locomotion

Keywords: contrastive semantics | conceptual semantics | lexical polysemy | Manner | verbs of motion | semantic template | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:2 pp. 303–336 | article

Wee, Lionel 2015 Review of Singapore English: Structure, Variation, and Usage by Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (2013)

English World-Wide 36:2 pp. 259–263 | book review

Hiramoto, Mie 2015 Who’s really normal?: Language and sexuality in public space

Journal of Language and Sexuality 4:2 pp. 183–192 | article

Wee, Lionel 2015 The party’s over?: Singapore politics and the ‘new normal’

Keywords: global city | habitus | speech act | stance | style

Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 pp. 455–478 | article

Hiramoto, Mie & Joseph Sung-Yul Park 2014 Anxiety, insecurity, and border crossing: Language contact in a globalizing world

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 pp. 141–151 | article

Said-Sirhan, Yurni 2014 Linguistic insecurity and reproduction of the Malay community’s peripherality in Singapore

Keywords: socioeconomic peripherality | linguistic insecurity | meritocracy | adequation | distinction

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 pp. 221–240 | article

Park, Joseph Sung-Yul 2014 “You say ouch and I say aya”: Linguistic insecurity in a narrative of transnational work

Keywords: language ideology | transnationalism | linguistic insecurity | English | neoliberalsim | multinational corporation | Korea

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 pp. 241–260 | article

Bao, Zhiming 2013 Review of The Typology of Asian Englishes edited by Lisa Lim & Nikolas Gisborne (2011)

English World-Wide 34:2 pp. 241–244 | book review

Lee, Cher Leng 2013 Review of Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese by Yuling Pan & Dániel Z. Kádár (2011)

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14:1 pp. 150–155 | book review

Peng, Rui 2014 Review of The Europeanization of modern written Chinese: a case study of the changing third person pronouns in the twentieth century and beyond by Clara Ho-yan Chan (2005)

Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2 pp. 281–284 | book review

Lee, Cher Leng 2013 Review of Politeness and Audience Response in Chinese-English Subtitling by Xiaohui Yuan (2012)

Chinese Language and Discourse 4:1 pp. 141–144 | book review

Sato, Yosuke 2013  Wh-Questions in Colloquial Singapore English: Adaptive traits from vernacular Malay and typological congruence

Keywords: wh-topicalization | typological congruence | wh-question | partial wh-movement | Chinese | adaptive trait | Colloquial Singapore English | Malay

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:2 pp. 299–322 | article

Wee, Lionel 2012 Review of World Englishes in Asian Contexts by Yamuna Kachru & Cecil L. Nelson (2006)

English World-Wide 33:1 pp. 95–99 | book review

Wee, Lionel 2012 Review of English Around the World. An Introduction by Edgar W. Schneider (2011)

English World-Wide 33:1 pp. 100–104 | book review

Hiramoto, Mie 2012 Anime and intertextualities: Hegemonic identities in Cowboy Bebop

In: Media Intertextualities, Hiramoto, Mie (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 37] pp. 57–79

Bao, Zhiming & Khin Khin Aye 2012 Bazaar Malay topics

In: Pidgins and Creoles in Asia, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 38] pp. 151–167

Park, Joseph Sung-Yul 2012 Images of “good English” in the Korean conservative press: Three processes of interdiscursivity

In: Media Intertextualities, Hiramoto, Mie (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 37] pp. 11–30

Peng, Rui 2012 Critical frequency as an independent variable in grammaticalization

Keywords: critical frequency | grammaticalization | pragmatic inference

Studies in Language 36:2 pp. 345–381 | article

Ha, Nguyen Thi Thu 2011 Gender ideologies in the Vietnamese printed media

Keywords: discourse as social practice | feminist CDA | gender equality | Vietnamese women

In: Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures, Majstorović, Danijela & Inger Lassen (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 45] pp. 195–216

Bao, Zhiming 2011 One in Singapore English

In: Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy & Shelome Gooden (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 36] p. 79

Hiramoto, Mie 2011 Consuming the consumers: Semiotics of Hawai‘i Creole in advertisements

Keywords: Hawai‘i Creole | advertisements | language commodification | stylization

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:2 pp. 247–275 | article

Yang, Yanning 2011 Grammatical metaphor in Chinese: A corpus based study

Functions of Language 18:1 pp. 1–28 | article

Wee, Lionel 2011 The ranked list as Panopticon in enterprise culture

Keywords: enterprise culture | consumption | neoliberalism | Foucault | genre | Panopticon | rankings | governmentality

Pragmatics and Society 2:1 pp. 37–56 | article

Bao, Zhiming 2010 Review of The Chinese rime tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology edited by David Prager Branner (2006)

Chinese Language and Discourse 1:1 pp. 134–137 | book review

Sew, Jyh Wee 2010 Review of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning by Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel (2006)

Pragmatics & Cognition 18:1 pp. 223–227 | book review

Sew, Jyh Wee 2010 Review of Creative Explorations: New Approaches to Identities and Audiences by David Gauntlett (2007)

Pragmatics & Cognition 18:1 pp. 219–222 | book review

Hiramoto, Mie 2010 Anime and intertextualities: Hegemonic identities in Cowboy Bebop

Keywords: Japanese | anime | intertextuality | role language | naturalization | indexicality

Pragmatics and Society 1:2 pp. 234–256 | article

Bao, Zhiming & Khin Khin Aye 2010 Bazaar Malay topics

Keywords: Chinese | pidgin | Malay | substratum transfer | topic prominence | contact-induced change | Bazaar Malay

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:1 pp. 155–171 | article

Hiramoto, Mie 2010 Dialect contact and change of the northern Japanese plantation immigrants in Hawai‘i

Keywords: Second dialect acquisition | Founder principle | Japanese immigrants in Hawai‘i | Japanese dialects | Zû-zû dialect

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:2 pp. 229–262 | article

Park, Joseph Sung-Yul 2010 Images of “good English” in the Korean conservative press: Three processes of interdiscursivity

Keywords: English | media | Korea | interdiscursivity | neoliberalism | language ideology

Pragmatics and Society 1:2 pp. 189–208 | article

Sew, Jyh Wee 2009 Review of Collins Easy Learning Dictionary: English-Malay Malay-English edited by Tan Ling Ling, Azlina Musa, Maggie Seaton & Nigel Phillips (2005)

Language Problems and Language Planning 33:1 pp. 95–97 | book review

Xudong, Deng 2009 Listener response

In: The Pragmatics of Interaction, D’hondt, Sigurd, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 4] pp. 104–124

Tupas, T. Ruanni F. 2009 Language as a problem of development: Ideological debates and comprehensive education in the Philippines

AILA Review 22:1 pp. 23–35 | article

Kim, Chonghyuck & Lionel Wee 2009 Resolving the paradox of Singapore English hor

Keywords: Singapore English | illocutionary force | discourse particles | command | statement/assertion | discourse context | epistemic/deontic authority

English World-Wide 30:3 pp. 241–261 | article

Tien, Adrian 2009 Semantic prime HAPPEN in Mandarin Chinese: In search of a viable exponent

Keywords: allolexy | cognition | culture | Chinese | language | eventive construction | polysemy | natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) | semantics | pragmatics

Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2 pp. 356–382 | article

Ziegeler, Debra 2008 Review of The Expression of Modality edited by William Frawley (2006)

Studies in Language 32:2 pp. 466–475 | book review

Sew, Jyh Wee 2008 Review of Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication edited by Farzad Sharifian & Gary B. Palmer (2007)

Pragmatics & Cognition 16:1 pp. 197–202 | book review

Ziegeler, Debra 2008 Propositional aspect and the development of modal inferences in English

In: Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner & Elisabeth Leiss (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 79] pp. 43–79

Wong, Jock 2008 Anglo English and Singapore English tags: Their meanings and cultural significance

Keywords: Singapore English | Anglo English | tag questions | natural semantic language | pragmatic meaning

Pragmatics & Cognition 16:1 p. 88 | article

Wee, Lionel 2006 The cultural basis of metaphor revisited

Keywords: Conceptual understanding | cultural model | proper names | metaphor

Pragmatics & Cognition 14:1 pp. 111–128 | article

Bao, Zhiming & Lye Hui Min 2005 Systemic Transfer, Topic Prominence, and the Bare Conditional in Singapore English

Keywords: substrate influence | topic prominence | relexification | Singapore English | Chinese | language contact | pidgin and creole | conditional clause

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:2 pp. 269–291 | article

Tan, Peter K.W. 2005 The medium-of-instruction debate in Malaysia: English as a Malaysian language?

Language Problems and Language Planning 29:1 pp. 47–66 | article

O’Halloran, Kay 2011 On the Effectiveness of Mathematics

In: Perspectives on Multimodality, Ventola, Eija, Cassily Charles & Martin Kaltenbacher (eds.) [Document Design Companion Series, 6] p. 91

Fei, Victor Lim 2011 Problematising ‘Semiotic Resource’

In: Perspectives on Multimodality, Ventola, Eija, Cassily Charles & Martin Kaltenbacher (eds.) [Document Design Companion Series, 6] pp. 51–62

Pakir, Anne 2005 Applied Linguistics in Asia: Pathways, Patterns and Predictions

Keywords: Applied linguistics | Asia

AILA Review 17:1 pp. 69–76 | article

Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena 2004 Portuguese and English intonation in contrast

Keywords: foreign accent | intonation mismatch | English/Portuguese

Languages in Contrast 4:2 pp. 213–232 | article

Bao, Zhiming 2003 Review of Sinitic grammar: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives by Hillary Chappell (2001)

Functions of Language 10:1 pp. 116–122 | book review

Ansaldo, Umberto 2003 Review of Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach by William Croft (2000)

Functions of Language 10:1 pp. 122–128 | book review

Bruthiaux, Paul 2008 Contexts and trends for English as a global language

In: Language in the Twenty-First Century: Selected papers of the millennial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, held at the University of Hartford and Yale University, Tonkin, Humphrey & Timothy Reagan (eds.) [Studies in World Language Problems, 1] p. 9

O’Halloran, Kay 2011 Intersemiosis in mathematics and science: Grammatical metaphor and semiotic metaphor

In: Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics, Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie, Miriam Taverniers & Louise J. Ravelli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 236] pp. 337–365

Tupas, T. Ruanni F. 2003 History, language planners, and strategies of forgetting: The problem of consciousness in the Philippines

Language Problems and Language Planning 27:1 pp. 1–25 | article

Hoon, Chng Huang 2003 “You see me no up”: Is Singlish a problem?

Language Problems and Language Planning 27:1 pp. 45–62 | article

Ooi, Vincent B.Y. 2002 Review of The Core Vocabulary of International English: A Corpus Approach by Ahmad S. Peyawary (1999)

English World-Wide 23:1 pp. 147–151 | book review

Newman, John & Toshiko Yamaguchi 2008 3. Action and state interpretations of ‘sit’ in Japanese and English

In: The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 51] pp. 43–59

Callaghan, Jean & Edward McDonald 2008 Expression, content and meaning in language and music: An integrated semiotic analysis

In: Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999, Mc Kevitt, Paul, Seán Ó Nualláin & Conn Mulvihill (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 35] pp. 205–220

Bruthiaux, Paul 2002 Predicting challenges to English as a global language in the 21st century

Language Problems and Language Planning 26:2 pp. 129–157 | article

Goh, Robbie B.H. 2008 Iconicity in advertising signs: Motive and method in miming ‘the body’

In: The Motivated Sign, Fischer, Olga & Max Nänny (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2] pp. 189–210

Bao, Zhiming 2002 The origins of empty categories in Singapore English

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16:2 pp. 275–319 | article

Lim, Lisa 2001 Review of Singapore English in a Nutshell: An Alphabetical Description of its Features by Adam Brown (1999)

English World-Wide 21:2 pp. 309–312 | book review

Hoon, Chng Huang 2000 Review of Negotiating Language, Constructing Race: Disciplining Difference in Singapore by Nirmala Srirekam PuruShotam (1998)

English World-Wide 20:2 pp. 333–338 | book review

Alsagoff, Lubna, Zhiming Bao & Lionel Wee 1998 Why You Talk Like That?: The Pragmatics of a Why Construction in Singapore English

English World-Wide 19:2 pp. 247–260 | article

Begum, Rizwana & Thiru Kandiah 1998 Minority Usage within a New Variety of English: Resistance and Conformity

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 11:1 pp. 277–296 | article

Zhu, Chunshen 1996 Translation of Modifications: About Information, Intention and Effect

Target 8:2 pp. 301–324 | article

Kuo, Eddie C.Y. & Björn H. Jernudd 1993 Balancing Macro- and Micro-Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Language Management: The Case of Singapore

Language Problems and Language Planning 17:1 pp. 1–21 | article

Nayar, P. Bhaskaran 1991 Review of A sociolinguistic investigation of the English spoken by the Anglo-Indians in Mysore by Jennifer Marie Bayer (1986)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:1 pp. 134–135 | book review

Nayar, P. Bhaskaran 1991 Review of Special issue on English in the South Pacific edited by Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo (1989)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:2 pp. 322–325 | book review

Oladejo, James 1991 The National Language Question in Nigeria: Is There an Answer?

Language Problems and Language Planning 15:3 pp. 255–267 | article

Bradshaw, Julie 1990 Teaching the meanings of words

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 13:1 pp. 1–24 | article

D’souza, Jean 1988 Diglossia in The South Asian Sociolinguistic Area

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 79-80:1 pp. 25–59 | article

Baldauf, Richard & Björn H. Jernudd 1987 Academic communication in a foreign language: The example of Scandinavian psychology

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:1 p. 98 | article

Foley, J.A. 1984 A Rationale for the Cloze Procedure

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 64:1 pp. 71–89 | article

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