Mei-Ya Liang

Biographic Data

ID1089602
NAMEMei-Ya Liang
GIVEN NAMESMei-Ya
FAMILY NAMELiang
SIGNATURELIANG M
AFFILIATIONSNational Central University
ORCID0000-0002-7010-8100
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Styles and stereotypes

    Mei-Ya Liang, Chih-Cheng Wang et al.ARTICLEApplied Linguistics Review2026

    This study focuses on Chinese-English mixing and translingual practices under the backdrop of neoliberal multilingualism. By integrating critical discourse analysis with descriptions of sociopolitical contexts, this article presents economic and historical layers of multilingual identities and ideologies where gender, racial, and regional relations become manifest. Social media users’ critical discursive strategies, including translingual perform…

  • Transcreation on social media through translingual English

    Mei-Ya LiangARTICLEAsian Englishes2025

    Drawing on a creative and translingual approach to translation, the researcher examines online transcreation on social media. This study focuses on online transcreation by multilingual speakers who subtitle and translate video content through translingual English. This article first illustrates the relationships among translanguaging, translation, and transcreation. The article then provides metafunctional and multimodal discourse analyses of fig…

  • Translingual play in networked socialization for transcultural communication

    Mei-Ya LiangARTICLELanguage and Intercultural…2024Cited by: 1References: 19

    By integrating critical translingual theories and praxis-oriented intercultural communication, this article explores social media users' translingual play as a creative way of making linguacultural connections. By juxtaposing transnational YouTubers' narrations, conversations, and reflections, this study presents their humorous stylized performance for transcultural communication with the local community. The analyses of viewer comments further s…

  • Enregistering emojis in online socialization

    Mei-Ya LiangARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2024References: 29

    This article examines linguaculturally diverse university students’ affective translingual practices of using emojis and languages in computer-mediated communication. Research studies have investigated the sociopragmatic uses of emojis from the perspectives of social semiotics, language socialisation, and translingual practices. This study expands on these perspectives and further adopts enregisterment as a conceptual framework to explore the eme…

  • I’m not blue or green. I’m black’. The participatory entextualization of translingual memes and metapragmatic comments in transnational sociopolitical discourse

    Open AccessMei-Ya Liang, Shiou-Ping John Pan et al.ARTICLEDiscourse & Society2023Cited by: 1References: 9

    This article examines sociopolitical discourse in the democratic network society of Taiwan from translingual and transnational perspectives. Ten multimodal memes from two YouTube videos and the associated metapragmatic comments were analyzed. This study combined a discourse-historical approach and translingual analyses of YouTube users’ meme-related discursive strategies, which link historical and political rhetoric to recently circulated linguis…

  • Contingent (dis)agreement and emotional expressiveness in online responsive discourse

    Open AccessMei-Ya LiangARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2023References: 16

  • Transnational narratives of ecological socialisation

    Mei-Ya LiangARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022References: 14

    This study explores multilingual international students’ narratives of mobility and socialisation through online discursive spaces of interview conversations. Drawing upon an ecological approach to transnational narratives, the researcher analyzed international students’ multiscalar interactions and transformations in sociospatial practices. The analyses provide ethnographic accounts of the participants’ translingual discourses, transcultural tra…

  • Multilingual and multimodal mediation in online intercultural conversations

    Mei-Ya LiangARTICLELanguage Awareness2021

    This study explored peer groups’ mediation processes in the digital space. Building upon translingual research and multimodal discourse analysis, the researcher analysed video transcript excerpts of oral conversations and on-screen interactions among university students of different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. This article focuses on multilingual and multimodal mediation practices, which include polyaccented exemplification, bilingual in…

  • Pragmatic socialization through gameplay directives

    Open AccessMei-Ya LiangARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2020Cited by: 2References: 8

  • Viewpoints in multimodal storytelling

    Open AccessMei-Ya LiangARTICLELanguage & Communication2015Cited by: 1References: 23

  • Reimagining Communicative Context

    Mei-Ya LiangARTICLEJournal of Language Identity &…2012Cited by: 4References: 8

    Drawing upon a semiotic approach to English as a lingua franca (ELF), this study investigates English as a foreign language (EFL) students' interactions with international speakers of English in the real-time, multiplayer virtual world Second Life. The author integrated pedagogical strategies of classroom interactions, online conversations, and student reflections in an EFL course to facilitate students' understanding and use of ELF. Qualitative …