Publications
Selected publications
- The politics of English as a commodity in China: From neoliberal globalization to neoliberal nationalism (Chapter - 2022)
- The Other Food (Chapter - 2021)
- Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness (Book - 2021)
- Language and Intercultural Communication in Tourism: Critical Perspectives (Book - 2021)
- Aspiring to be Global: Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China (Book - 2019)
- The online activism of mock translanguaging: Language style, celebrity persona, and social class in China (Journal article - 2022)
2024
Critical Interculturality in Tourism Communication
Gao, S., & Sharma, B. K. (2024). Critical Interculturality in Tourism Communication. In The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality in Communication and Education (pp. 113-128). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003513940-11
2022
The politics of English as a commodity in China: From neoliberal globalization to neoliberal nationalism
Gao, S. (2022). The politics of English as a commodity in China: From neoliberal globalization to neoliberal nationalism. In English in China: Creativity and Commodification (pp. 32-50). doi:10.4324/9781003292326-4
The online activism of mock translanguaging: Language style, celebrity persona, and social class in China
Gao, S. (2022). The online activism of mock translanguaging: Language style, celebrity persona, and social class in China. DISCOURSE CONTEXT & MEDIA, 47. doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100608
2021
Coffee, Social Space and Middle-Class Romance: Customer Writings in an Independent Coffee Shop in China
Gao, S. (2021). Coffee, Social Space and Middle-Class Romance: Customer Writings in an Independent Coffee Shop in China. In UNPACKING DISCOURSES ON CHINESENESS (Vol. 20, pp. 126-145). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
The Other Food
Gao, S. (2021). The Other Food. In Language and Intercultural Communication in Tourism (pp. 17-36). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003088028-3
The problem of interculturality in tourism
Gao, S., & Sharma, B. (2021). The problem of interculturality in tourism. In B. Sharma, & S. Gao (Eds.), Language and Intercultural Communication in Tourism: Critical Perspectives. Routledge.
Chineseness as competing discourses
Gao, S. (2021). Chineseness as competing discourses. In Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness: The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China. Multilingual Matters.
Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness
Gao, S., & Wang, X. (Eds.) (2021). Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness. Multilingual Matters. doi:10.21832/gao3825
Language and Intercultural Communication in Tourism: Critical Perspectives
Sharma, B. K., & Gao, S. (n.d.). Language and Intercultural Communication in Tourism. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003088028
2019
Chronotopic identities and social change in Yangshuo, China
Gao, S. (2019). Chronotopic identities and social change in Yangshuo, China. In S. Kroon, & J. Swanenberg (Eds.), Chronotopic Identity Work: Sociolinguistic Analyses of Cultural and Linguistic Phenomena in Time and Space. Multilingual Matters.
Aspiring to be Global: Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China
Gao, S. (2019). Aspiring to be Global: Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China. Multilingual Matters. Retrieved from http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922753
2018
Multilingualism and good citizenship: The making of language celebrities in Chinese media
Gao, S. (2018). Multilingualism and good citizenship: The making of language celebrities in Chinese media. MULTILINGUA-JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERLANGUAGE COMMUNICATION, 37(6), 541-559. doi:10.1515/multi-2017-0106
2017
The commodification of language in neoliberalizing China: The cases of English and Mandarin
Flubacher, M. -C., & Del Percio, A. (Eds.) (2017). Language, Education and Neoliberalism. In . Multilingual Matters. doi:10.21832/flubac8682
The sociolinguistics of globalizing China
Gao, S. (2017). The sociolinguistics of globalizing China. Language and Linguistics Compass, 11(6). doi:10.1111/lnc3.12245
2016
Interactional straining and the neoliberal self: Learning English in the biggest English corner in China
Gao, S. (2016). Interactional straining and the neoliberal self: Learning English in the biggest English corner in China. Language in Society, 45(03), 397-421. doi:10.1017/S0047404516000075
2015
Space and language learning under the Neoliberal economy
Gao, S., & Park, J. S. -Y. (2015). Space and language learning under the Neoliberal economy. L2 Journal, 7(3), 78-96. doi:10.5070/L27323514
2012
The biggest English corner in China
Gao, S. (2012). The biggest English corner in China. English Today, 28(3), 34-39. doi:10.1017/s0266078412000296
Commodification of place, consumption of identity: The sociolinguistic construction of a ‘global village’ in rural China<sup>1</sup>
Shuang, G. A. O. (2012). Commodification of place, consumption of identity: The sociolinguistic construction of a ‘global village’ in rural China<sup>1</sup>. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 16(3), 336-357. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9841.2012.00534.x