Nanyang Technological University

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

The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach

AuthorFangqiong Zhan

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

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 41] 2026. | monograph

Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains: Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 (2023)

EditorAlexander R. Coupe, Randy J. LaPolla & Hideo Sawada

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Dravidian languages | Historical linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics | Turkic languages | Typology | Uralic languages

[Asian Languages and Linguistics, 4:2] 2024. v, 218 pp. | special issue

The Joint Production of Conversational Turns: Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 12:1 (2021)

Edited by K.K. Luke & Mei Fang

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Chinese Language and Discourse: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 12:1] 2021. | special issue

Conversation Analysis in Chinese: Part II: Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 10:2 (2019)

Edited by Ni-Eng Lim

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Chinese Language and Discourse: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 10:2] 2020. | special issue

Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors

Edited by Rik De Busser & Randy J. LaPolla

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] 2015. vi, 370 pp. |

English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use

Edited by Ee-Ling Low & Azirah Hashim

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Varieties of English Around the World, G42] 2012. xiv, 394 pp. | edited volume

Studies in Transitivity: Insights from Language Documentation. Special issue of Studies in Language 35:3 (2011)

Edited by František Kratochvíl, Alexander R. Coupe & Randy J. LaPolla

Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Studies in Language, 35:3] 2011. | special issue

Zhang, Sai & Vahid Aryadoust 2026 Towards methodological rigor and analytical depth in conducting bibliometric reviews: A case study in Applied Linguistics

Keywords: applied linguistics | bibliometric reviews | citation practices | methodological framework

In: Research Synthesis Methodologies in Applied Linguistics, Chong, Sin Wang (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 17] p. 90 | open access

Zhang, Sai & Vahid Aryadoust 2026 Section overview: What is a bibliometric/scientometric review?

In: Research Synthesis Methodologies in Applied Linguistics, Chong, Sin Wang (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 17] pp. 68–71 | open access

Zhan, Fangqiong 2026 The development of the Chinese cleft construction: A diachronic constructional approach

In: The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach, Zhan, Fangqiong[Constructional Approaches to Language, 41]

Tham Wei Hui, Deniss, Ali Jalalian Daghigh & Yuezeng Niu 2026 A reception study on the impact of visual elements and translation strategies on viewers’ comprehension of culture-specific items in Malay-subtitled Chinese movies

Keywords: multimodality | interlingual subtitles | Chinese culture-specific items | comprehension | Malay viewers | multimodalité | sous-titres interlinguistiques | éléments culturels spécifiques chinois | compréhension | public malais

FORUM 24:1 pp. 109–137 | article

Smith, Christopher A. & Csilla Weninger 2026 Representation of social class in Korean ELT materials: A visual analysis

Keywords: ELT textbooks | critical discourse studies | multimodality | social class

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 18 pp. | article

Li, Haoze & Chigchi Bai 2026 Wh-conditionals are more interrogative than not: An insight from Khorchin Mongolian

Keywords: wh-conditionals | wh-indefinites | the variable binding approach | the question-based approach | alternative semantics | Khorchin Mongolian | 疑問代詞條件句 | 疑問代詞的無定用法 | 變量約束分析 | 疑問句基底分析 | 選項語義學 | 科爾沁蒙古語

Concentric 52:1 p. 79 | article

Luke, K. K. 2025 Review of Fundamental Structures of the Chinese Language: Topic-Comment and Other Key Structures by Taciana Fisac & Riccardo Moratto (2024)

Chinese Language and Discourse 17:1 pp. 156–159 | book review

Xie Pan, Molly & Dennis Tay 2025 Communicating socio-psychological meanings: Metaphors in Hong Kong press conferences on measures against COVID-19

Keywords: metaphor | press conferences | conceptualization | socio-psychological meanings

In: COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] pp. 190–215

Chun, Fung Yee & Bee Chin Ng 2026 A clash of ‘Prides’ in Chinese-English bilinguals

Keywords: emotion | pride | bilingual | bicultural | self-conscious emotions

International Journal of Language and Culture 12:2 pp. 251–289 | article

Zhang, Limei 2025 The effect of metacognitive instruction on Singapore secondary students’ Chinese listening performance and metacognitive awareness

Keywords: metacognitive awareness | listening comprehension | Singapore secondary students | Chinese study

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12:2 pp. 242–255 | article

Huang, Xiyue 2025 The passive construction and participant identification in Cuntou Tuhua

Keywords: passive | topicalization | participant identification | Tuhua | sinitic languages

Studies in Language 50:1 pp. 233–257 | article

Jia Xuan, Lim & Norhaida Aman 2025 The (in)visibility of Indian languages in Singapore’s multilingual landscape: A study of the linguistic landscape of little India

Keywords: Little India | Singapore | linguistic landscape | English | Tamil | Bengali

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 35:1 pp. 58–86 | article

Zhan, Fangqiong 2025 The development of the Chinese multifunctional construction V+qilai : From a complement-taking predicate to a discourse marker

Keywords: discourse marker | complement-taking predicate | the Trajectory Hypothesis | constructionalization

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article

Mao, Feng, Rita Elaine Silver & Qian Luo 2025 The evolution of language education policies and international relations in China: A structural realist perspective

Keywords: language education policy | China | international relations | structural realism | political economy | cultural diplomacy

Language Problems and Language Planning 49:2 pp. 178–205 | article

Sim, Jasper Hong & Brechtje Post 2024 Early phonological acquisition in multi-accent contexts

Keywords: accent variability | variable outcomes | input effects | variable input | sociolinguistics

In: Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity, Babatsouli, Elena (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 67] pp. 194–216

Lee, Junwen 2024 A relevance-theoretic analysis of Colloquial Singapore English hor

Keywords: Colloquial Singapore English | Singlish | discourse particles | imperatives | interrogatives | relevance theory | intonation

Pragmatics 35:3 pp. 369–394 | article

Teo, Ming Chew & Jingxia Lin 2024 Creating individual styles through discourse variation in Singapore Mandarin

Keywords: Singapore Mandarin | discourse variation | discourse particles | style | personae | indexicality | enregisterment

Chinese Language and Discourse 16:1 pp. 55–80 | article

Chen, Yixiong, Csilla Weninger & Fei Victor Lim 2024 Multimodality: A systemic-functional semiotic perspective

In: Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics, Riazi, A. Mehdi (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 6] pp. 49–67

Weninger, Csilla, Fei Victor Lim & Yixiong Chen 2024 Applying multimodal analysis: Embodied teaching and textbook analysis

In: Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics, Riazi, A. Mehdi (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 6] pp. 68–82

Lai, Yunfan 2024 Musk deer are inherited: The reconstruction of the onset *t.ɬj- in Proto-Gyalrongic

Keywords: Gyalrongic languages | Sino-Tibetan languages | regular sound change | etymology re-construction | historical linguistics | musk deer

Journal of Historical Linguistics | Online First Publication, 17 pp. | article

Lai, Yunfan 2024 Mutual predictiveness of sound correspondences for reconstruction and language subgrouping: The case of Gyalrongic preinitials

Keywords: Sino-Tibetan | Gyalrongic languages | Tangut | Khroskyabs | (Mutual) Implicative Entropy | Neighbornet | historical linguistics

Diachronica 41:5 pp. 635–677 | article

Ang, Gregory 2023 Review of Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction by Xuehua Xiang (2021)

Chinese Language and Discourse 15:1 pp. 142–149 | book review

Ring, Hiram 2023 Gender, classifiers, and diachrony in Khasian

Keywords: gender | numeral classifiers | plural | grammaticalization | Austroasiatic | Khasian

In: Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives, Allassonnière-Tang, Marc & Marcin Kilarski (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 362] pp. 200–225

Cavallaro, Francesco, Yan Kang Tan, Wenhan Xie & Bee Chin Ng 2023 Language practices and policies of Singaporean-Japanese families in Singapore

Keywords: binational marriages | transnational marriages | Family Language Policy | Japanese | Singapore | language ideologies | One Parent One Language

Pragmatics 34:1 pp. 55–80 | article | open access

Coupe, Alexander R., Randy J. LaPolla & Hideo Sawada 2024 Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains

Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 pp. 113–118 | introduction

LaPolla, Randy J. & Keita Kurabe 2024 Manifestations of Jinghpaw influence among Rawang speakers

Keywords: Rawang language | Tibeto-Burman languages | Language contact influence | Kachin languages | Sino-Tibetan languages

Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 pp. 273–290 | article

Tan, Ying-Ying 2023 English as lingua franca or World Englishes?: Two approaches to achieving linguistic justice for all

Keywords: Linguistic justice | World Englishes | English as a lingua franca | global language | language planning and policy | 언어정의 | 세계영어 | 국제공용어로서의 영어 | 세계어 | 언어계획 및 정책

InContext 3:2 pp. 31–51 | article | open access

Coupe, Alexander R. 2024 The role of cognitive schemas in linguistic convergence: From nominative-accusative to ergative‑absolutive alignment in Nagamese

Keywords: Tibeto-Burman | Indo-Aryan | language contact | linguistic convergence | morphosyntactic alignment | linguistic typology

Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 pp. 251–272 | article

Park, Innhwa, Rachel S. Y. Chen, Jan Gorisch, Song Hee Park, Nadja Tadic & Eiko Yasui 2023 The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts

Keywords: conversation analysis | multi-unit turn | interlocking organization | topic management | topic shift | disjunction | inbreath | turn design

Pragmatics 35:1 pp. 51–71 | article | open access

Zhan, Fangqiong 2022 A constructional account of the development of the Chinese stance discourse marker běnlái

Keywords: analogisation | commentary pragmatic marker | constructionalisation | discourse connectives | multiple sources | stance discourse marker | subjectification

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:2 pp. 245–284 | article

Zhu, Xuelian & Vahid Aryadoust 2022 A scientometric review of research in Translation Studies in the twenty-first century

Keywords: Translation Studies | co-citation analysis | burst | temporal metrics | structural metrics

Target 35:2 pp. 157–185 | article

Lee, Kwan Min, Jae-gil Lee & Young June Sah 2022 Interacting with an embodied interface: Effects of embodied agent and voice command on smart TV interface

Keywords: smart TV | embodied agent | voice control | social attribution | social presence | satisfaction

Interaction Studies 23:1 pp. 116–142 | article

Zhan, Fangqiong & Haihua Pan 2022 The development of the Chinese V de O cleft construction: A constructional approach

Keywords: Chinese | the V de O cleft | neoanalysis | analogization | constructionalization

Studies in Language 47:2 pp. 318–349 | article

Luke, K. K. 2021 Parties and voices: On the joint construction of conversational turns

Keywords: joint production | collaborative completion | increments | turn continuation | projection | 協同建構 | 聯合完成 | 延伸 | 話論延續 | 投射

Chinese Language and Discourse 12:1 p. 6 | article

Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu 2022 「粵語語法學習概覽」的建構: 廣東話第二語言語法學甚麼？何時教？ [Development of the Cantonese Grammar Profile ]

Keywords: 現代粵語語法 | 對外粵語教學 | 語言評量 | 國際粵語教育 | 廣東話 | 歐洲共同語言參考架構 | modern Cantonese | teaching Cantonese as a second language | language assessment | international Cantonese language education | Gwongdungwaa | Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 56:3 pp. 209–228 | article

Tandoc Jr., Edson C., Andrew Duffy, S Mo Jones-Jang & Winnie Goh Wen Pin 2021 Poisoning the information well?: The impact of fake news on news media credibility

Keywords: credibility | Facebook | fake news | journalism | social media | trust

Journal of Language and Politics 20:5 pp. 783–802 | article

Luke, K.K. & Mei Fang 2021 Special issue on joint production of conversational turns

Chinese Language and Discourse 12:1 pp. 1–5 | introduction

Xu, Duoduo 2021 Noun-epithets of Dongba and Daba oral traditions

Keywords: Dongba | Daba | noun-epithet | oral-tradition | chant | formula

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 44:1 pp. 133–139 | article

Zhang, Hui, Ruanni Tupas & Aman Norhaida 2020 English-dominated Chinatown: A quantitative investigation of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Singapore

Keywords: Chinatown | Singapore | linguistic landscape | quantitative analysis | English | Mandarin Chinese

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1/2 pp. 273–289 | article

LaPolla, Randy J. 2020 Forward to the past: Modernizing linguistic typology by returning to its roots

Keywords: linguistic typology | Wilhelm von Humboldt | Structuralism | Romanticism | cognitive linguistics | construction grammar | interactional linguistics

Asian Languages and Linguistics 1:1 pp. 147–167 | article

Coupe, Alexander R. 2020 Northern Sangtam phonetics, phonology and word list

Keywords: Tibeto-Burman | Indo-Burmic | Aoic | Sangtam | phonetics | phonology | tone | language documentation | historical linguistics | typology | Nagaland

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:1 pp. 147–189 | article

He, Xiaoling, Haojiang Ying & Sureenate Jaratjarungkiat 2021 Multimedia learning materials for second language learners: A comparison of two kinds of videos

Keywords: live-action video | animation videos | vocabulary learning | lip-reading | 实景视频 | 动画视频 | 词汇习得 | 读唇

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 55:3 pp. 175–192 | article

Adams, Jonathon & Fei Victor Lim 2020 Towards a functional literacy approach to teach the language of science in the Singapore classroom

Keywords: disciplinary literacy | functional literacy | genre pedagogy | science teaching | classroom discourse | writing | joint construction

Pedagogical Linguistics 1:2 pp. 125–148 | article

Wenqi, Toh & Cui Feng 2020 Translation, rewriting and formation of Singapore’s bilingual education policy: A comparison of English and Chinese editions of My Lifelong Challenge: Singapore’s Bilingual Journey by Lee Kuan Yew

Keywords: rewriting | poetics | patronage | ideology | bilingual education policy | réécriture | poésie | paternalisme | idéologie | politique d’éducation bilingue

Babel 66:3 pp. 505–529 | article

Khoo, Yong-Kang 2020 Zhu Chungeng. 2019. Chinese aspectual particle le: A comprehensive guide

Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1 pp. 146–149 | book review

LaPolla, Randy J. 2019 A note on the history of the term “pronomenalisation”

Keywords: Sino-Tibetan linguistics | Tibeto-Burman linguistics | pronominalization | person marking | verb agreement | typological features vs. genetic features

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:1 pp. 143–147 | article

Lim, Ni-Eng 2020 Introduction: Recent developments of Conversation Analysis in Chinese

Chinese Language and Discourse 10:2 pp. 127–132 | introduction

Peck, Jeeyoung & Jingxia Lin 2019 Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: postverbal locative PP | scale | internal adjunct | added argument | preposition incorporation | result | event delimiter | word order

Language and Linguistics 20:1 p. 85 | article | open access

Minh, Nguyen Thi Thuy, Do Thi Thanh Ha, Pham Thi Thanh Thuy & Nguyen Tuan Anh 2019 The effects of corrective feedback with and without revision on enhancing L2 pragmatic performance

Keywords: corrective feedback | email requests | metapragmatic instruction | accuracy | fluency

Applied Pragmatics 1:1 pp. 1–25 | article

Li, Shushu & Ni-Eng Lim 2020 “不会 VP 吧”在互动会话中的求证行为和反期待推测 [Seeking verification for unexpected inference using “buhui VP ba”]

Keywords: 不会 VP 吧 | 推测 | 反期待 | 求证 | 立场 | 疑信倾向

Chinese Language and Discourse 10:2 pp. 241–262 | article

Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu 2020 印尼華裔中學生繼承語學習動機及其影響因素 [Motivational orientations of secondary school students of Mandarin Chinese as a heritage language in Indonesia] [Motivational orientations of secondary school students of Mandarin Chinese as a heritage language in Indonesia]

Keywords: 繼承語 | 學習動機 | 印尼華人 | 華僑學校 | 華裔學生 | heritage language | L2 motivation | Chinese Indonesians | overseas Chinese schools | Chinese heritage language learners

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 54:2 pp. 145–182 | article

Goh, Hock Huan, Jinzhan Lin & Chunsheng Zhao 2019 Specialised corpora for Chinese language education in Singapore

Keywords: Specialised Corpora for Language Education | Singapore Daily Written Chinese Corpus | Singapore Primary School Children Spoken Chinese Corpus | Singapore Chinese Language Teaching Resource Platform | corpus application

In: Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun & Linda Tsung (eds.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 10] pp. 266–295

Lim, Ni-Eng 2019 Preliminaries to delicate matters: Some functions of “I say to you” sequences in Mandarin Chinese conversations

Keywords: conversation analysis | Mandarin Chinese | meta-language units | interactional linguistics | preface

In: Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun & Linda Tsung (eds.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 10] pp. 106–136

Nathan, Mitchell J., Amelia Yeo, Rebecca Boncoddo, Autumn B. Hostetter & Martha W. Alibali 2020 Teachers’ attitudes about gesture for learning and instruction

Keywords: classroom learning | instructional gestures | teacher beliefs

Gesture 18:1 pp. 31–56 | article

Lambert, James 2018 A multitude of “lishes”: The nomenclature of hybridity

Keywords: World Englishes | language hybridity | portmanteau terms | blends | “lishes” | etymology | terminology

English World-Wide 39:1 pp. 1–33 | article

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi 2018 Medical tourism and its niched impact in Tabriz, Iran: Opportunities and challenges for Iranian Azerbaijanis

Keywords: medical tourism | linguistic landscape | Azerbaijani | Tabriz | Farsi | Iran

Linguistic Landscape 4:2 pp. 128–152 | article

Lin, Jingxia & Yong Kang Khoo 2018 Singapore Mandarin Chinese: Its variations and studies

Keywords: Global Chinese | Singapore Mandarin Chinese | grammatical variations | 全球华语 | 新加坡华语 | 语法变异

Chinese Language and Discourse 9:2 pp. 109–135 | review article

Pan Hanting & Wang Yuechen 2018 Andrew Chesterman. Reflections on Translation Theory: Selected papers 1993–2014

Babel 64:2 pp. 326–333 | book review

Cavallaro, Francesco, Mark Fifer Seilhamer, Ho Yen Yee & Ng Bee Chin 2018 Attitudes to Mandarin Chinese varieties in Singapore

Keywords: language attitudes | matched-guise | Putonghua | Singapore Mandarin | verbal-guise

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:2 pp. 195–225 | article

Kathpalia, Sujata S. 2018 Neologisms: Word creation processes in Hindi-English code-mixed words

Keywords: Neologisms | Hindi-English words | word-formation processes | affixation | blending | compounding

English World-Wide 39:1 pp. 34–59 | article

Nguyen, Thi Thuy Minh 2018 Pragmatic development in the instructed context: A longitudinal investigation of L2 email requests

Keywords: e-politeness | email requests | pragmatic instruction | second language | learnability

Pragmatics 28:2 pp. 217–252 | article | open access

Yin, Bin & Beth Ann O’Brien 2017 Aspectual interpretation and mass/count knowledge in Chinese-English bilinguals

Keywords: interface hypothesis | morphosyntax-semantics interface | telicity

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:3 pp. 468–503 | article

Wong, Kevin Zi-Hao & Ying-Ying Tan 2017 Mandarinization and the construction of Chinese ethnicity in Singapore

Keywords: Mandarin-Chinese | Singapore | Attitudes | Ethnicity | Identity | 普通话 | 新加坡 | 语言态度 | 种族 | 身分

Chinese Language and Discourse 8:1 pp. 18–50 | article

Yan, Jing & Stephen Matthews 2017 Relative clauses in English-Mandarin bilingual children: Language transfer and development in Singapore

Keywords: cross-linguistic influence | relative clause | bilingual children | Singapore | 跨语际影响 | 定语从句 | 双语儿童 | 新加坡

Chinese Language and Discourse 8:1 pp. 1–17 | article

Yeo, Wan Ting & Ruanni Tupas 2017 Semiotic engineering in Singapore: National Courtesy Campaign posters in aid of nation-building

Keywords: semiotic engineering | nation-building ideology | ideology dissemination | national campaigns | micro-communication strategies

Journal of Language and Politics 17:1 pp. 46–69 | article

Wang, Haoshu & Helena Hong Gao 2017 Cross-linguistic categorization of throwing events: A behavioral approach

Keywords: behavioral approach | verb semantics | near-synonyms | event categorization

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:2 pp. 259–276 | article

Coupe, Alexander R. 2017 From the editor

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 39:2 p. 179 | article

LaPolla, Randy J. 2017 Once again on methodology and argumentation in linguistics: Problems with the arguments for recasting Sino-Tibetan as “Trans-Himalayan”

Keywords: Sino-Tibetan linguistics | Trans-Himalayan | argumentation | historical linguistics | Tibeto-Burman linguistics | Chinese linguistics

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 39:2 pp. 282–297 | article

Zakaria, Muhammad 2017 Report on the 26th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society: Manila, Philippines, 26 May–28 May, 2016

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 39:2 pp. 298–300 | article

Lwin, Soe Marlar 2016 Stories of (self)-introduction for communicative effectiveness of an institutionalized storytelling performance

Keywords: storyteller's identities | oral narrative | communicative effectiveness | storytelling

Narrative Inquiry 26:1 pp. 64–87 | article

Luke, K.K. 2016 Storytelling in multiple contexts

Keywords: narrative | multiactivity | storytelling | Cantonese | participation framework

Chinese Language and Discourse 7:2 pp. 297–340 | article

Vlachos, Evgenios, Elizabeth Jochum & Louis-Philippe Demers 2017 The Effects of Exposure to Different Social Robots on Attitudes toward Preferences

Keywords: Social human-robot interaction | preference | touch | human-like | machine-like

Interaction Studies 17:3 pp. 390–404 | article

LaPolla, Randy J. 2015 Chapter 2. On the logical necessity of a cultural and cognitive connection for the origin of all aspects of linguistic structure

In: Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors, De Busser, Rik & Randy J. LaPolla (eds.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] pp. 31–44

Onnis, Luca, Arnaud Destrebecqz, Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater & Axel Cleeremans 2015 Implicit learning of non-adjacent dependencies: A graded, associative account

Keywords: artificial grammar learning | artificial language learning | computational models | connectionism | grammar | implicit learning | non-adjacent dependencies | sequence learning | Simple Recurrent Networks | statistical learning

In: Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages, Rebuschat, Patrick (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 48] pp. 213–246

Shegar, Chitra & Saravaran Gopinathan 2015 Sustaining and maintaining a minority language: A case study of the place and use of Tamil in Singapore

In: Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Volker, Craig Alan & Fred E. Anderson (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 35] pp. 153–172

Ring, Hiram 2016 Report on the 25th Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Conference, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: 25 May–29 May 2015

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:2 pp. 328–330 | article

Lim, Ni-Eng 2014 Review of Chinese Discourse and Interaction by Yuling Pan & Dániel Z. Kádár (2013)

Language and Dialogue 4:2 pp. 323–333 | book review

Tan, Seng Chee & Daryl Ku 2014 Developing Teachers’ Epistemic Agency in a Knowledge Building Community through Cogenerative Dialogues

In: Educating in Dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology, Feller, Sebastian & Ilker Yengin (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 24] pp. 133–156

Ren, Li & Guangwei Hu 2014 An ethnographic multiple-case study of mother–child interaction strategies in Singapore-based Chinese families

Keywords: distancing strategies | immigrant families | family literacy practices | maternal interaction strategies | Singapore

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 pp. 274–300 | article

Tournadre, Nicolas & Randy J. LaPolla 2014 Towards a new approach to evidentiality: Issues and directions for research

Keywords: Eventual marking | evidential marking | morphology | cognitive linguistics | Tibetan languages | Tibeto-Burman languages | Sino-Tibetan languages

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37:2 pp. 240–263 | article

Fedden, Sebastian, Dunstan Brown, František Kratochvíl, Laura C. Robinson & Antoinette Schapper 2014 Variation in pronominal indexing: Lexical stipulation vs. referential properties in Alor-Pantar languages

Keywords: affectedness | Papuan | inflectional classes | lexical stipulation | animacy | agreement | Alor-Pantar | volitionality

Studies in Language 38:1 pp. 44–79 | article

Major, George, Agnes Terraschke, Emily Major & Charlotte Setijadi 2014 Working it out: Migrants’ perspectives of social inclusion in the workplace

Keywords: employment | migrants | workplace communication | language learning

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 37:3 pp. 249–261 | article | open access

Shujing, Dong 2014 Review of Meaningful arrangement: Exploring the syntactic description of texts by Edward McDonald (2008)

Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2 pp. 289–292 | book review

Fujita, Hiroko 2013 Review of Politeness in East Asia edited by Sara Mills & Dániel Kádár (2011)

Chinese Language and Discourse 4:1 pp. 153–156 | book review

LaPolla, Randy J. 2013 Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman: Can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact?

In: Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson & Alan Timberlake (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 104] pp. 463–474

Serwe, Stefan, Kenneth Keng Wee Ong & Jean Francois Ghesquière 2013 “Bon Appétit, Lion City”: The use of French in naming restaurants in Singapore

In: Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special, Gerhardt, Cornelia, Maximiliane Frobenius & Susanne Ley (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 10] pp. 281–304 | open access

Chong, Rachael Hui-Hui & Ying-Ying Tan 2013 Attitudes toward accents of Mandarin in Singapore

Keywords: Mandarin | Singapore | verbal-guise | language attitudes | accents

Chinese Language and Discourse 4:1 pp. 120–140 | article

Tan, Ying-Ying & Christina Castelli 2013 Intelligibility and attitudes: How American English and Singapore English are perceived around the world

Keywords: intelligibility | language attitudes | American English | Singapore English | English world-wide | Expanding Circle | Inner Circle

English World-Wide 34:2 pp. 177–201 | article

Stadler, Stefanie Alexa 2013 Speaker or listener or speaker and listener: Why intercultural interaction demands a dual role–relationship

Keywords: pragmatics | discourse | intercultural communication | multimodality | action and reaction by speaker and interlocutor | Listenership

Language and Dialogue 3:2 pp. 167–185 | article

Zhao, Shouhui & Richard B. Baldauf 2012 Individual agency in language planning: Chinese script reform as a case study

Keywords: prestige planning | Chinese script | language policy | individual agency | language planning | standardization

Language Problems and Language Planning 36:1 pp. 1–24 | article

Lim, Ni-Eng & Huaqing Hong 2012 Intensifiers as stance markers: A corpus study on genre variations in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: Corpus Linguistics | genre-analysis | stance markers | intensifiers | Mandarin

Chinese Language and Discourse 3:2 pp. 129–166 | article

Lwin, Soe Marlar 2013 Whose stuff is it?: A museum storyteller’s strategies to engage her audience

Keywords: museum storytelling | storyteller’s strategies | audience’s engagement

Narrative Inquiry 22:2 pp. 226–246 | article

Low, Ee-Ling 2011 Review of World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference edited by Thomas Hoffmann & Lucia Siebers (2009)

English World-Wide 32:3 pp. 384–388 | book review

Kratochvíl, František 2011 Discourse-structuring functions of Abui demonstratives

In: Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 96] pp. 757–788

LaPolla, Randy J., František Kratochvíl & Alexander R. Coupe 2011 On Transitivity

Keywords: Radical Construction Grammar | Transitivity | verbal valence | linguistic typology

Studies in Language 35:3 pp. 469–492 | article

Coupe, Alexander R. 2011 Pragmatic foundations of transitivity in Ao

Keywords: Ao | pragmatics | agentive | Tibeto-Burman | construction grammar | grammaticalization | case

Studies in Language 35:3 pp. 492–522 | article

Kwon, Nayoung, Philip J. Monahan & Maria Polinsky 2010 Object control in Korean: A backward control impostor

In: Movement Theory of Control, Hornstein, Norbert & Maria Polinsky (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 154] pp. 299–328

Zhao, Shouhui & Yongbing Liu 2010 Chinese education in Singapore: Constraints of bilingual policy from the perspectives of status and prestige planning

Keywords: mother tongue | prestige | language planning | status | Singapore | Chinese language | English

Language Problems and Language Planning 34:3 pp. 236–258 | article

Luke, K.K. & Wei Zhang 2010 Insertion as a self-repair device and its interactional motivations in Chinese conversation

Keywords: self-repair | conversational repair | Conversation Analysis | interactional function | insertion | Mandarin

Chinese Language and Discourse 1:2 pp. 153–182 | article

Cai, Wei & Benny P.H. Lee 2010 Investigating the effect of contextual clues on the processing of unfamiliar words in second language listening comprehension

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 33:2 pp. 18.1–18.28 | article | open access

Alvin, Leong Ping 2008 Review of Linguistic Identity in Postcolonial Multilingual Spaces edited by Eric A. Anchimbe (2007)

English World-Wide 29:3 pp. 370–374 | book review

Xiaoyan, Huang & Hao Xiaoming 2008 5. Party journalism vs. market journalism: The coverage of SARS by the People's Daily and Beijing Youth News

In: The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. & Xiaosui Xiao (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] p. 93

Weber, Ian, Tan Howe Yang & Law Loo Shien 2008 8. "Triumph over adversity": Singapore mobilizes Confucian values to combat SARS

In: The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. & Xiaosui Xiao (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] pp. 145–162

Graham, Philip & Allan Luke 2008 The language of neofeudal corporatism and the war on Iraq

Keywords: capitalism | coalition of the willing | corporatism | discourse analysis | feudalism | political economy | war on terror

In: The Soft Power of War, Chouliaraki, Lilie (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 3] pp. 11–37

Deterding, David 2006 Review of Singapore English. A Grammatical Description edited by Lisa Lim (2004)

English World-Wide 27:1 pp. 106–109 | book review

Deterding, David 2006 The pronunciation of English by speakers from China

Keywords: pronunciation | Chinese English | new varieties of English | epenthetic vowels | reduced vowels | nasalized vowels | rhythm

English World-Wide 27:2 pp. 175–198 | article

Deterding, David 2005 Emergent patterns in the vowels of Singapore English

Keywords: English | Singapore English | vowels | vowel quality

English World-Wide 26:2 pp. 179–197 | article

Brown, Adam 2004 The importance of vowel length in pronunciation teaching

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 145-146:1 pp. 269–288 | article

Kluver, Randolph 2004 Review of The Politics of Southeast Asia’s New Media by William Atkins (2002)

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 13:2 pp. 323–327 | book review

Deterding, David 2003 An instrumental study of the monophthong vowels of Singapore English

English World-Wide 24:1 pp. 1–16 | article

Brown, Adam 2003 The importance of vowel length in pronunciation teaching

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 141-142:1 pp. 225–245 | article

Deterding, David 2002 Review of Evolving Identities: The English Language in Singapore and Malaysia edited by Vincent B. Y. Ooi (2001)

English World-Wide 23:2 pp. 324–329 | book review

Lee-Wong, Song Mei 2002 Review of Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction by Yuling Pang

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11:2 pp. 311–313 | book review

Harvey, Arlene 1999 Definitions in English technical discourse: A study in metafunctional dominance and interaction

Functions of Language 6:1 pp. 53–94 | article

Waas, Margit 1997 First Language Loss: Reflex Responses, Repartee and Sound Symbolism

Language Problems and Language Planning 21:2 pp. 119–133 | article

Omoniyi, Tope 1997 My blood, my Nation: Ethnicity and Nationality as alternative and hierarchical Identities in African Borderlands

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 117-118:1 pp. 27–50 | article

Xu, Daming 1993 Unexceptional Irregularities: Lexical Conditioning of Mandarin Nasal Deletion

Diachronica 10:2 pp. 215–236 | article

Saravan, Vanithamani 1990 Gender differences in a bilingual Tamil-English community

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 13:2 p. 97 | article

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