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Yao, X., Nie, P. & Bi, Q. (2024, November). Fostering multiliteracies of ethnic minority students through linguistic landscapes. Paper presented at the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) conference. Launceston, Australia.

Yao, X., & Nie, P. (2024, June). Authenticating Tibetan-ness through smellscapes. Paper presented at 15th Linguistic Landscape Workshop, Wellington, New Zealand.

Hu, B., & Yao, X. (2024, June). Investigating trust in video remote interpreting within the Australian healthcare context. Paper presented at the 5th East Asian Translation Conference (EATS5), Brisbane, Australia.

Yao, X. & Kang, Y-B. (2024, March). Missing the human touch? A stylometry analysis of human and GPT translations of online Chinese novels. Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Symposium on Machine Translation and Digital Humanities, Singapore.

Yao, X., & Nie, P. (2023, September). Utopia and dystopia: Language policies and ethnic minorities in the Chinese linguistic landscapes. Paper accepted for presentation at 14th Linguistic Landscape Workshop, Madrid, Spain.

Yao, X., & Nie, P. (2023, June). Language ideologies and attitudes towards ethnic minority migrants: The linguistic landscape of a Han Chinese-Tibetan community in Chengdu, China. Paper presented at 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Sydney, Australia.

Yao, X. (2022, November). Affect in the linguistic landscape: A tale of two Chinese restaurants. Paper presented at LCNAU Seventh Biennial Colloquium, Melbourne, Australia.

Yao, X. & Nambu, S. (2021, September). Multilingual official signs in the linguistic landscapes of Japanese Brazilian communities. Paper presented at British Association of Applied Linguistics 2021 Conference, UK (online).

Yao, X. (2021, June). Translanguaging on public signs: The linguistic landscape of Melbourne. Poster presented at 6th Language for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Conference (LSPPC6), Hong Kong (online).

Yao, X. (2021, June). Unsettling linguistic landscapes: Metrolingualism in the collapsed context of WeChat. Paper presented at Sociolinguistic Symposium 23, Hong Kong (online).

Yao, X., Phan, N., & Urribarrí, J. (2021, November). Linguistic landscapes: Languages, materialities and identities. Chaired Panel Session at Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) Annual Conference 2021, Australia.

Yao, X. (2020, November). Exclusion in the ephemeral linguistic landscape. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) Annual Conference 2020, Australia (online).

Yao, X. (2019, June). Power of Chinese assemblages: An ethnographic investigation of the linguistic landscape of Bendigo. Paper presented at XIScape: 11th Linguistic Landscape Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand.

Yao, X. (2018, September). Beneath the sign: The linguistic landscape of a rural township in Australia. Paper presented at 2nd International Conference on Sociolinguistics, Budapest, Hungary.

Yao, X. (2018, June). Journeys into the rural linguistic landscape. Paper presented at Ethnoforum, Melbourne, Australia.

Yao, X. (2017, September). Indexing identities: Bilingual messages in the linguistic landscape. Paper presented at Identities in Translation International Workshop 2017, Melbourne, Australia.