Xi Yan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xi Yan plays a role.
Articles
2019 A study of Macao tertiary students’ attitudes to issues in postcolonial Macao’s language policy and planning Language Problems and Language Planning 43:3, pp. 241–261 | Article
This study focuses on Macao, a former Portuguese colony and a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China after 1999. A questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2012 and 2013 respectively among freshmen of the University of Macau to investigate… read more
2013 English ants are digging holes in the Chinese levee: Language ideological debates in the Chinese media Language Problems and Language Planning 37:1, pp. 31–45 | Article
The media have become a key site for the production and reproduction of language ideologies in modern societies. This is typically reflected in language ideological debates in 2010 in the Chinese media. In 2009, an article entitled “English ants are digging holes in the Chinese levee” got wide… read more