Name: Xi Yan
Gender: Male
Title: Associate Professor
E-mail: yxmax1980@126.com
Address: School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, Jiangning District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
Introduction:
Research interests: sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, translation studies
Education: PhD in linguistics, University of Macao; MA in English studies, University of Macao; BA in English Language and Literature, Beijing International Studies University
Work experience: 2021-present, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University
Major publications:
Yan, X. (2023) A study of Macao tertiary students' attitudes towards language after the handover. Cham: Springer. (ISSN: 2211-1921; ISBN: 978-981-99-6818-3)
Yan, X. (2025) A study of Pinyin as social practice in China's commercial linguistic landscape. Social Semiotics.
Yan, X. (2025) A study of the commodification of Sinoperipheral writing in the linguistic landscape of China. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Yan, X. (2025) A study of the resignification of English through the linguistic landscape of a private English training centre in China. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 46(2), 421-436.
Yan, X. (2024) A study of English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China. Language and Intercultural Communication, 24(6), 589-600.
Yan, X. (2020) A meta-discursive analysis of online comments on the suggestion of cancelling National Matriculation English Test in China. Asian Englishes, 22(3), 222-237.
Yan, X. (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), 241-261.
Yan, X. (2019) A study of language choices in the linguistic landscape of Macao’s heritage and gaming tourism. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40(3), 198-217.
Yan, X. (2017) A study of Macao tertiary students’ language attitudes after the handover. Language Awareness, 26(1), 25-40.
Yan, X. (2017) The language situation in Macao. Current Issues in Language Planning, 18(1), 1-38.
Yan, X. (2016) “Macao has died, traditional Chinese characters have died”: A study of netizens' comments on the choice of Chinese scripts in Macao. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37(6), 564-575.
Yan, X. (2014) A meta-discursive analysis of online comments of Chinese netizens on Huang Xiaoming's appropriation of English. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 27(2), 151-162.
Yan, X. (2013) English ants are digging holes in the Chinese levee: Language ideological debates in the Chinese media. Language Problems and Language Planning, 37(1), 30-45.
Yan, X. & Moody, A. (2010) Language and society in Macao: A review of sociolinguistic studies on Macao in the past three decades. Chinese Language and Discourse, 1(2), 293-324.
