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Prof. YAO Xiao Fang 姚曉芳教授

Translation Programme

Assistant Professor

BMgmt (Nanchang), MA (Westminster), MA, PhD (Melbourne)

852-39178910

852-28581334

Rm 1053, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Chinese Diaspora, Linguistic and Semiotic Landscape, Minority Community, Multilingualism, Posthumanism, Sociolinguistics

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Committee Member

2025

Committee Member – Online Education and Outreach Committee (OEOC) of American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), 2025-present

Editorial Board Member

2024

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024-present

Affiliate Researcher

2021

Affiliate Researcher – Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S), 2021-present

Research Blog

2022

Yao, X. (2022, July 12). Creativity and exclusion in China’s COVID-19 linguistic landscapes. Language on the Movehttps://www.languageonthemove.com/creativity-and-exclusion-in-chinas-covid-19-linguistic-landscapes/ 

Book Review

2022

Davidson, L., Elder, C., Fan, J., Frost, K., Kelly, B., McNamara, T., Morton, J., Price, S., Storch, N., Thompson, C., Yao, X., & Diskin-Holdaway, C. (2022). Review of the book Language as symbolic power, by C. Kramsch. Applied Linguistics43(3), 613–619. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab027

Book Review

2020

Yao, X. (2020). Review of the book There isn’t only one way of being Chinese”: Language, culture, and identity in two Chinese community schools, by S. Ganassin. Language and Intercultural Communication21(1), 132-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2020.1808426

Book Review

2020

Yao, X. (2020). Review of the book Posthumanist applied linguistics, by A. Pennycook. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 266, 143-145.http://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-2116

Book Review

2020

Yao, X. (2020). Review of the book Language and subjectivity, by T. McNamara. Sociolinguistic Studies14(3), 395–397.https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108639606

Book Review

2020

Yao, X. (2019, October 24). Review of the book Dialogues with ethnography, by J. Blommaert. Linguist List, 30, 4050. https://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=36524919