Yu Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yu Li is involved.
2026 Phoenix in transformation: A social semiotic model of indexical change Linguistic Landscape: Online-First Articles | Article
This study develops a framework for analyzing historically layered meaning-making in semiotic landscapes. It integrates indexical order, enregisterment, reindexicalization, and reenregisterment to explain how social semiotic resources acquire and transform meanings over time. The framework is… read more
2025 Student machine translation use in a transnational English-medium instruction university: Navigating development and expedience Journal of English-Medium Instruction 4:2, pp. 238–258 | Article
Research on machine translation in language courses has proliferated over the last decade, yet few studies have considered use in English medium-instruction programs that aim to simultaneously develop student language ability and knowledge of content. This study therefore investigates student… read more
2022 Developing beginning language learners’ (meta-)cultural understanding via student-led Linguistic Landscape research Linguistic Landscape 8:1, pp. 56–84 | Article
Practitioners of additional-language (AL) education have consistently argued for the pedagogical benefits of engaging students in Linguistic Landscape (LL) research. The potential of how LL study may contribute to students’ development in (meta-)cultural understanding is yet to be explored.… read more
2021 Translanguaging as a pedagogical practice in Chinese language and (inter)culture courses Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 56:2, pp. 89–117 | Article
As Chinese-as-an-additional-language (CAL) practitioners actively seek to bridge the language-culture divide in class instruction and curriculum, various strategies have been adopted to integrate cultural components into traditionally defined “language courses” or vice versa. However, many such… read more