Li Wei
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Li Wei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Li |
| FAMILY NAME | Wei |
| SIGNATURE | WEI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2015-7262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 212 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1570 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 203 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Translanguaging and multimodality in digital environments: Perspectives on translocal content creation
Investigating transpositioning as an interactional achievement: Expanding the promise of membership categorization analysis
In social interaction, we take on and are ascribed multiplex social categories. The capacity to transform, transcend, and transgress the boundaries of categories is the ability to transposition, a necessity for thriving in social life in the 21st century. This paper has two related goals. Theoretically, it argues that transpositioning is an interactional achievement and to understand this process, one needs to inspect on a moment-by-moment basis …
Effects of remote breastfeeding guidance on breastfeeding rates and neonatal health: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Background Breastfeeding is widely acknowledged as the optimal feeding method for neonatal health. Remote breastfeeding guidance (e.g., using the telephone, text messages, mobile applications, and so on) may improve breastfeeding rates and neonatal outcomes, but its short-term impact and effect across economic regions remain unclear. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the effect of remote breastfeeding guidance on neonatal f…
Reimagining mentorship in language teacher education through a relation-centered transpositional framework and a Team practice model
Adaptive vs. planned metacognitive scaffolding for computational thinking: Evidence from generative AI-supported programming in elementary education
Self‐Efficacy as a Mediator of the Relation Between Motivation and Academic Performance: A Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Analytic Structural Equation Model
Extensive research has established links between motivation, self‐efficacy, and academic performance. However, the mechanisms of these relationships were underexplored. The purpose of this study was to explore the interrelationships among motivation, self‐efficacy, and academic performance, as well as the mediating mechanism of self‐efficacy by using a multi‐stage structural equation modeling (MASEM) approach. Finally, in total of 23 studies were…
Revealing unseen wounds: A cluster analysis of psychological and pandemic-driven factors associated with self-injury among global students
Despite extensive research on the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, limited attention has been given to how pandemic-related stressors uniquely influence self-injury and suicidal ideation among global student populations. This cross-national study examines both psychological and pandemic-related determinants of self-harm in international and domestic Indonesian students, highlighting divergent drivers of self-injury across these gro…
Leveraging translanguaging in GenAI-enhanced language classes: Capturing its impact on multilingual English learners’ achievement emotions and academic engagement through latent growth curve modelling…
The present research traced the growth trajectories of multilingual English learners’ achievement emotions and academic engagement in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-enhanced classes and examined the effects of translanguaging pedagogy as an emotional scaffolding strategy in this context. Using purposive sampling, 342 multilingual English learners were selected and randomly assigned to either a control group or a treatment group. Data …
Translanguaging in performance or performance in translanguaging
This article approaches translanguaging from the perspective of performance as theorised in anthropological and sociological studies. Drawing on the key argument that every facet of social reality is a performance, and social interaction is based on tacit agreement among all the participants, the article aims to make sense of a key participant’s making sense of her social world, based on an ethnographic investigation into the work and life of a m…
Generative AI and its dilemmas: Exploring AI from a translanguaging perspective
Technological advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) have produced multimodal and multilingual models that have the potential to achieve a long-sought educational goal: increasing equity and access for linguistically diverse learners. However, despite their capability to receive adaptive inputs combined with their proficiency in multiple languages and modalities, GenAI systems are designed to operate in the realm of statistical pr…
Liquid Crystals: A Phenomenological Approach to Complexity of University Students' Identity Formation Through Translanguaging Perspective
In a world with existential issues, inequalities/injustice are (re)emerging in varying degrees around the globe, and yet, each of us strives to sustain our life with our own disappointments/griefs and desires/hopes. Then, identity formation research should elucidate how a human being makes sense of multifaceted voices/dimensions (‘selves’ and ‘(social) identities’) and what propels each to sustain/envision one’s desires/hopes in the future. Thus,…
Refashioning linguistic expertise: Translanguaging Tesol in social media
This article examines the performative reconfiguration of linguistic expertise and the mode of TESOL at the intersection of language teaching, networked technology, and the culture of ludification. Applying van Dijck and Alinejad’s (2020 ‘Social media and trust in scientific expertise: Debating the COVID-19 pandemic in The Netherlands’, Social Media + Society, 6/4) distinction of institutional versus networked models of communication, it addresse…
Social support and its associated factors among older adult patients with intestinal stomas: A cross-sectional study in Guangxi, China
Background Social support plays a crucial role in the rehabilitation and psychosocial well-being of older adult individuals following intestinal stoma surgery. However, regional disparities and influencing factors of social support in this population remain insufficiently studied, particularly in underserved areas of China. This study aimed to assess the current level of social support and identify its influencing factors among older adult patien…
Determining transgender identity: A discussion from legal, medical, and social perspectives
As societal awareness of gender diversity continues to evolve, the legal and social recognition of transgender identities has emerged as a critical global issue. Transgender individuals encounter a range of legal challenges that necessitate collaborative efforts across various sectors for effective resolution. This paper examines the legal, medical, and socio-cultural practices related to transgender identity determination in China and other coun…
Shift one's trouble to others: Does climate policy uncertainty promote enterprises' “pollution migration” in the context of artificial intelligence
Against the backdrop of worsening global climate change, countries worldwide have implemented climate policies to reduce corporate pollution emissions and promote corporate social responsibility. However, regional differences in climatic conditions have intensified the uncertainty of climate policies during implementation, creating a critical research gap: the influence of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) on corporate pollution behavior remains u…
Beyond the liver: Well-being as the bridge between fatigue and quality of life in chronic hepatitis B patients
Background Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) remains a significant public health challenge. Many CHB patients experience fatigue and impaired mental health, affecting their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study investigates the relationships between fatigue, well-being, and HRQoL, while identifying risk factors for poor well-being in CHB patients. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted with 428 CHB patients. HRQoL, fatigue, and well-b…
Engaging students in learning and creating different translanguaging sub-spaces in Hong Kong English Medium Instruction history classrooms
A key pedagogical goal in any classroom is to engage students in learning. This study examines how an English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) teacher employs available resources to engage his students in the classroom for promoting participation, keeping the lesson moving forward and meeting the pedagogical goals. The data for this study is based on a intensive fieldwork in an EMI secondary history classroom in Hong Kong. Multimodal Conversation Analysi…
Who is our friend and who is our enemy? The enregisterment of tribalising digital discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study demonstrates how tribalism and nationalism, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have given rise to the enregisterment of a cultural discursive practice – dui (怼) – on Chinese social media. Based on a sample of social media posts collected through a combination of ‘noticing’ and systematic data scanning and archiving over a month, our analysis shows that dui shifted from a discursive practice of friendly teasing, a specific function t…
How verbal labels modulate early Cantonese-English bilinguals’ perception and categorization of motion events
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The current study investigates how strongly verbal labels (i.e., motion verbs) affect early Cantonese-English bilinguals’ perception and categorization of similar events. Specifically, it examines the degree to which bilinguals’ performance aligns with that of L1 speakers of each language when their access to language ranges from maximal to minimal during task performance. Design/methodology/approac…
The Kongish phenomenon: User perception and language identity
Kongish Daily , a Facebook page promoting Kongish – a creative, critical, and colloquial form of Hong Kong English with Cantonese inflections – has attracted a following in social media over the past decade. It has also sparked interest among sociolinguists interested in (post-)multilingual developments in East Asia. This study is built on Hansen Edwards’s (2016) premise that Hong Kong English would gain wider acceptance in Hong Kong as the cultu…
Unveiling multi-level determinants on empathy among Chinese primary and secondary school students: Evidence from SSES 2019
Empathy has attracted more and more attention among scholars, whereas potential determinants on the empathy of primary and secondary school students have been rarely discussed in Chinese context. The present study, utilizing a hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analysis, investigated the multi-level determinants on empathy of Chinese primary and secondary school students (N = 6,926) based on the 2019 Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES) d…
Psychometric validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 in Chinese adolescent and adult psychiatric inpatient populations
The findings of this study validate the structural validity and diagnostic validity of the PHQ-9 among Chinese adult psychiatric inpatients, while emphasizing that the interpretation of its factor structure in the adolescent population requires caution. The age-related symptom topological patterns indicated by network analyses are highly likely to be influenced by the insufficient size of the adolescent sample and need to be confirmed by subseque…
Predicting poor self-management behaviors in adults with newly diagnosed COPD: Based on the information-motivation-behavioral skills model
The risk prediction model based on IMB model and a nomogram including 3 easily available prediction factors (cognitive function, patient activation and depression) on poor self-management behaviors for newly diagnosed COPD patients was established, which showed good discrimination, and calibration. It can be used to screen out high- risk population with poor self-management behaviors for newly diagnosed COPD patients early
Does language shape the way we think? A review of the foreign language effect across domains
Purpose and research question: This review investigates the influence of the foreign language effect (FLE) on moral decision-making, risk aversion, and causality perception. Recent research indicates that bilinguals employ different decision-making strategies according to the language in use (first vs. second language). Methodology: Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol, we conducted a …
The enhancement of creativity through foreign language learning: Do personality traits matter
This study investigates how L2 proficiency contributes to creativity in relation to personality among 205 young adolescent English-as-a-foreign-language learners from rural China. Participants completed the Cambridge A2 Key for Schools English Test to assess English proficiency, the Chinese Big Five Personality Inventory to evaluate personality traits, and the Evaluation of Potential Creativity to measure creativity, operationalized as divergent …
Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language
This article seeks to develop Translanguaging as a theory of language and discuss the theoretical motivations behind and the added values of the concept. I contextualize Translanguaging in the linguistic realities of the 21st century, especially the fluid and dynamic practices that transcend the boundaries between named languages, language varieties, and language and other semiotic systems. I highlight the contributions Translanguaging as a theor…
Moment Analysis and translanguaging space: Discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth in Britain
Transnational experience, aspiration and family language policy
Transnational and multilingual families have become commonplace in the twenty-first century. Yet relatively few attempts have been made from applied and socio-linguistic perspectives to understand what is going on within such families; how their transnational and multilingual experiences impact on the family dynamics and their everyday life; how they cope with the new and ever-changing environment, and how they construct their identities and buil…
How can you tell
Polish shop(ping) as Translanguaging Space
This article investigates how spatial layout, the display of goods, body movement and gaze work alongside verbalised linguistic codes in creating a Translanguaging Space, using data from a linguistic ethnography project in a family retail shop in East London. We argue that while positioning itself as a “Polski Sklep” (Polish shop) in London, the shop is a Translanguaging Space – a space created by Translanguaging practices and for Translanguaging…
The sequential organisation of gift offering and acceptance in Chinese
Conversational code-switching in a Chinese community in Britain: A sequential analysis
Bringing the outside in: Connecting students’ out-of-school knowledge and experience through translanguaging in Hong Kong English Medium Instruction mathematics classes
Tranßcripting: Playful subversion with Chinese characters
This article discusses a relatively under-explored phenomenon that we call Tranßcripting – writing, designing and digitally generating new scripts with elements from different scriptal and semiotic systems. The data are drawn from examples of such scripts created by multilingual Chinese users in everyday online social interaction. We analyse the dynamic processes of how such scripts are created that transcend language boundaries as well as transf…
Attitudes towards code-switching among adult mono- and multilingual language users
The present study investigates inter-individual variation (linked to personality traits, multilingualism and sociobiographical variables) in attitudes towards code-switching (CS) among 2070 multilinguals. Data were collected through an online questionnaire. We found that high levels of Tolerance of Ambiguity (TA) and Cognitive Empathy (CE), and low levels of Neuroticism are linked with significantly more positive attitudes towards CS. Knowing man…
Multilingualism, empathy and multicompetence
The present study investigates the link between multilingualism and the personality trait of cognitive empathy among 2158 mono- and multilinguals. Data were collected through an online questionnaire. Statistical analyses revealed that the knowledge of more languages was not linked to cognitive empathy. Bilingual upbringing and the experience of having lived abroad were equally unrelated to cognitive empathy. Gender and education level were linked…
Contributions of foreign language writing emotions to writing achievement
Intra- and inter-individual variation in self-reported code-switching patterns of adult multilinguals
The present study is a large-scale quantitative analysis of intra-individual variation (linked to type of interlocutor) and inter-individual variation (linked to multilingualism, sociobiographical variables and three personality traits) in self-reported frequency of code-switching (CS) among 2116 multilinguals. We found a significant effect of interlocutor (friends, family, colleagues and strangers) on self-reported CS. Participants who grew up a…
What do you want me to say?' On the Conversation Analysis approach to bilingual interaction
Is language simply a medium for the expression of intentions, motives, or interests, or is it also a site for uncovering the method through which ordered activity is generated? This question has wide-ranging implications for the study of bilingual interaction in particular, and for sociolinguistics generally. This article attempts to explicate the principles behind the Conversation Analysis (CA) approach to bilingual interaction. It addresses som…
A two-step sociolinguistic analysis of code-switching and language choice: The example of a bilingual Chinese community in Britain
The main concern of this article is an analysis of patterns of language choice (at the community level) and of language mixing (at the interactional level) in a Chinese/English-speaking bilingual community in the northeast of England. The social network concept is used as a tool for analysing both the informal social organisation of the community and the manner in which language choice patterns are related to the different types of social relatio…
Multilingual English users' linguistic innovation
Can 'non-native' speakers of English innovate in English? This seemly simple question bothers sociolinguists and sociolinguistic research because we feel uncertain whether the 'inventive' productions by 'non-native' speakers should be treated as evidence of creativity or mistakes. This article aims to tackle this question from a translanguaging perspective, using data from social media communication amongst multilingual English users in the Sinop…
Transformative pedagogy for inclusion and social justice through translanguaging, co-learning, and transpositioning
The idea of translanguaging has disrupted much of the thinking in bilingual education. A common misunderstanding, however, is that translanguaging was intended to be a language teaching strategy. This article seeks to explore what a translanguaging approach to language teaching entails, with specific reference to the education of minoritized and racialized bilingual and multilingual learners in the school systems in English-dominant countries suc…
Kongish Daily: Researching translanguaging creativity and subversiveness
This paper analyses Kongish Daily, a Facebook page that trans-scripts local news in Hong Kong into a creative and dynamic mix of Cantonese in traditional Chinese characters, Romanisation and made-up characters, simplified Chinese, pinyin, English, Hong Kong English, other phonetic symbols, emoji and other signs and images. We trace the origin of the site and rationale for the Facebook page, and analyse it as a translanguaging phenomenon. The main…
Multilingual encounters in transcultural families
Chinese young people's attitudes towards translanguaging in self-praise on social media
Translanguaging and embodied teaching and learning: Lessons from a multilingual karate club in London
The purpose of this article is to explore the role of embodied repertories in teaching and learning in a multi-ethnic karate club in East London and its implications for language teaching and learning. We do so through the lens of translanguaging and apply the concept of translanguaging space where diverse semiotic systems are integrated and orchestrated. Through a close examination of how teaching and learning takes place in the karate club, we …
Language policy and practice in multilingual, transnational families and beyond
Language policy and practice in multilingual, transnational families and beyond." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 33(1), pp. A particular thank you should go to Bernard Spolsky, who asked several important questions at the colloquium and agreed to write the preface for the special issue. I am also most grateful to John Edwards for his interest and support in getting the special issue together and to Jonna Gilbert for the te…
Language attitudes: Construct, measurement, and associations with language achievements
The article reports on the development and validation of a new scale for assessing attitudes towards multiple languages among multilingual students from Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, China. The Language Attitudes Scale-Student Form (LASS) was developed based on relevant theory and literature as well as interview data from four students and four language teachers. The LASS consists of 40 items, with ten measuring students’ attitudes …
Individual agency and changing language education policy in China: Reactions to the new ‘Guidelines on College English Teaching’
Cooper’s (1989) LPP framework focuses on ‘who’ the policy planner is and ‘who’ implements the policy to ‘whom.’ These are particularly significant factors in a highly centralized education system such as China’s, where the effect of different individuals as actors in LPP remains largely unexplored. This article examines the controversy around the predominant status of College English and the resulting adjustments that have been made in a new Engl…
Starting from the right place: Introduction to the special issue on Conversational Code-Switching
Discourse patterns and fieldwork strategies in urban settings: Some methodological problems for researchers in bilingual communities
The paper evaluates the contribution of the different methodological procedures and principles offered by William Labov and John Gumperz, with particular reference to the problem of observer effect in community‐level investigations of linguistic minorities. While Labov's work seems generally to have fallen somewhat out of favour in recent years, and was in any event not devised for bilingual communities, it still offers researchers a clear set of…
Chinese or English? Language choice amongst Chinese students in Newcastle upon Tyne 1
Sociolinguistic patterns of Chinese communities in Britain are a rich and important field which has yet to be systematically explored. Any investigation into the internal structuring and cultural norms and values of these communities must be sensitive to the social and historical background of the people concerned. As a first step towards providing more accurate information, this paper discusses the complexity of the composition of the Chinese po…
A two-step sociolinguistic analysis of code-switching and language choice: The example of a bilingual Chinese community in Britain
The main concern of this article is an analysis of patterns of language choice (at the community level) and of language mixing (at the interactional level) in a Chinese/English-speaking bilingual community in the northeast of England. The social network concept is used as a tool for analysing both the informal social organisation of the community and the manner in which language choice patterns are related to the different types of social relatio…
The Duality of the Sacred and the Secular in Chinese Buddhist Music: An Introduction
L'A. examine les significations de la musique dans les contextes bouddhistes chinois doctrinaux et pratiques, et demontre la maniere dont les normes musicales codifiees ont ete reinterpretees dans la pratique bouddhiste contemporaine. Discussion des notions musicales dans le discours bouddhiste a partir d'une structure analytique fondee sur une classification bouddhiste (les musiques sacrees «tianyue » et « fanbei » et les musiques seculieres). E…
Geographical study of ethnicity: Comparison between downtown and suburban Chinese in Metropolitan Los Angeles
New Music in the Orient: Essays on Composition in Asia since World War II
Variations in patterns of language choice and code-switching by three groups of Chinese/English Speakers in Newcastle upon Tyne
Article Variations in patterns of language choice and code-switching by three groups of Chinese/English Speakers in Newcastle upon Tyne was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal Multilingua (volume 14, issue 3)
Code‐switching, preference marking and politeness in bilingual cross‐generational talk: Examples from a Chinese community in Britain
This paper deals with two related research questions: (1) how an understanding of the meaning of bilingual code‐switching can be achieved, and (2) how speakers with very different abilities in and attitudes to the languages communicate with each other in close and informal encounters. Drawing examples from the Tyneside Chinese community in the North East of England, a sequential analysis of conversational code‐switching by speakers of different g…
Conversational code-switching in a Chinese community in Britain: A sequential analysis
Who Maintains/Relinquishes Which Language How and Why? A Response to Michael Clyne
Developing a typology of rapists' speech
China's Sports Law
Journal Article China's Sports Law Get access James A.R. Nafziger, James A.R. Nafziger 1James A.R. Nafziger is Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law; Vice-President, International Sports Law Association Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Li Wei Li Wei 2Li Wei is Member, Oregon Bar; Assistant Professor of Law, Shanghai University (1987-91). The authors would like to thank Yong …
Stylistic variations in the early lexical development of young Putonghua-speaking children
Earlier studies of children's lexical acquisition tended to focus either on the rate or the style of acquisition. More recently, researchers have moved their attention to the individual differences in the stylistic variations in children's lexical composition. Most of the studies of children's lexical development in languages other than English, however, have only copied earlier studies of English-speaking children. There is very little published…
A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography
Towards a critical evaluation of language maintenance and language shift
The sequential organisation of gift offering and acceptance in Chinese
L1 Development in an L2 Environment: The Use of Cantonese Classifiers and Quantifiers by Young British-born Chinese in Tyneside
Cantonese data from a group of 34 British-born Chinese–English bilinguals, aged between 5 and 16 years, are examined to elucidate patterns of L1 development in an L2 environment. Based on tape-recorded conversations and narrative data, the analysis focuses on the use of two Cantonese morphosyntactic features, classifiers and quantifiers. Findings suggest that despite a slight positive correlation between age and Cantonese ability, there is eviden…
Conversational Management and Involvement in Chinese-English Business Talk
Culturally-based differences in conversational style often result in miscommunication in intercultural transactions. Such miscommunication becomes more acute in professional contexts (e.g. business negotiations) when the interacting parties are using the same linguistic code but not the same cultural style. Using the analytic framework provided by Conversation Analysis (CA), this paper examines one sequence of interaction during the closing stage…
Interpersonal harmony and textual coherence in Chinese business interaction
This paper focuses on the key Chinese cultural concept of ‘harmony ’ and investigates how Chinese speakers endeavour to achieve interpersonal harmony in face-to-face interaction. The data on which this study is based comes from a business meeting amongst four native speakers of Mandarin Chinese in Beijing. Through a detailed Conversation Analysis of a sequence from the closing stage of the meeting, we demonstrate the ways in which the Chinese spe…
The Irish language in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland
Bilingual development and social networks of British-born Chinese children
Article Bilingual development and social networks of British-born Chinese children was published on February 28, 2002 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2002, issue 153)
What do you want me to say?' On the Conversation Analysis approach to bilingual interaction
Is language simply a medium for the expression of intentions, motives, or interests, or is it also a site for uncovering the method through which ordered activity is generated? This question has wide-ranging implications for the study of bilingual interaction in particular, and for sociolinguistics generally. This article attempts to explicate the principles behind the Conversation Analysis (CA) approach to bilingual interaction. It addresses som…
Statistical approaches for assessing the relative validity of a food-frequency questionnaire: Use of correlation coefficients and the kappa statistic
Objective: To compare different statistical methods for assessing the relative validity of a self-administered, 150-item, semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) with 4-day weighed diet records (WR). Design: Subjects completed the Scottish Collaborative Group FFQ and carried out a 4-day WR. Relative agreement between the FFQ and WR for energy-adjusted nutrient intakes was assessed by Pearson and Spearman rank correlation coefficients…
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Starting from the right place: Introduction to the special issue on Conversational Code-Switching
Linguistics (110 works) · Psychology (101 works) · Sociology (91 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (85 works) · Computer Science (67 works) · Philosophy (55 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (49 works) · Pedagogy (48 works) · Political science (45 works) · Social Psychology (37 works)