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Yao, X. & Hu, B. (2025, July). Distrusting technologies: Misalignments in stakeholder perspectives on video remote interpreting in healthcare. Paper presented at the European Society for Translation Studies Congress (EST2025). Leeds, UK.

Yao, X., Nie, P. & Bi, Q. (2025, March). Fostering multiliteracies of ethnic minority students through linguistic landscapes. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Denver, US.

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

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 (online).

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