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Email: [email protected]
Phone: 310.338.5359
Office: University Hall 3944
Dr. Li's research interests include linguistic landscape studies, Chinese linguistics, Chinese language pedagogy, and East Asian calligraphy. Her recent work has focused on the cultural and social semiotics of the Chinese writing system. She is the author of The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective published by Routledge in 2020. Her current project examines the use of typeface as representation of group identity. Dr. Li coordinates the Chinese Program at LMU. Before joining LMU, she was a Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Linguistics, and East Asian Studies at Emory University. She served two terms as the Review Editor for Chinese as a Second Language (http://clta-us.org/publications/) from 2015 to 2020 and has served on the journal's editorial board since 2009.
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The chop suey letterform and cultural hegemony in global representation of visual Chineseness
Li, Y., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Visual Communication. 14703572251328349.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The chop suey letterform in historical Los Angeles Chinatowns
Li, Y., Dec 13 2023, In: Social Semiotics. 35, 2, p. 163-207 45 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Calligraphy Education in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
Li, Y., Jan 1 2022, The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies. Springer Nature, p. 813-841 29 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Cultural authenticity in the linguistic landscape: Developing additional language learners’ critical intercultural understanding
Li, Y., Jul 5 2022, In: Multilingual Matters. p. 258-276Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Developing beginning language learners' (meta-)cultural understanding via studentled Linguistic Landscape research
Li, Y., Lee, H. & Choi, B., Jan 25 2022, In: Linguistic Landscape. 8, 1, p. 56-84 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review