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Fengzhi Zhao is an Assistant Professor in Department of Applied Linguistics. Before joining XJTLU, she did her Ph.D. at the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck, University of London. Her fields of research broadly fall into: sociolinguistics; linguistic landscape studies; discourse analysis; linguistic ethnography. She is generally interested in issues such as multilingualism; language, space and identity; sociolinguistics of globalization and cosmopolitanism. She is currently working on projects related to language and affect in urban encounters; discourse and digital humanities; discursive constructions of subjects and communities during and after COVID epoch; ; language and aging in place; etc. Publications can be reached in ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fengzhi-Zhao
Research interests
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic landscape studies
Discourse analysis
Linguistic ethnography
Language, space and identity
Sociolinguistics of globalization and cosmopolitanism
Multilingualism
Experience
Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2023 - present
Program Director for MA Applied Linguistics, 2024 - present
Research Seminar Coordinator, 2023 - 2024
Teaching
LNG423 MA Dissertation (Applied Linguistics)
LNG203 Language and Society
LNG406 Research Methods
Awards and honours
2018-2021 Birkbeck School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy (SSHP) Scholarship for Doctoral Research
2018-2022 China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship for Doctoral Research
2015-2017 European Union Erasmus Mundus Master Scholarship for Research
Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D., Birkbeck, University of London
Master of Social Sciences, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris)
BA, Dalian University of Technology
Person Types
- Staff
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Living a diasporic space online: semiotic landscape and landscaping of Chinese students in the UK under COVID pandemic
Zhao, F., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Localising cosmopolitanism in place talk: Semiotic landscape as stance object
Zhao, F. & Lou, J. J., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Language in Society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Managing the shikumen chronotope, constructing a cosmopolitan place: A case study of Xintiandi in global Shanghai
Zhao, F., 2022, Routledge. p. 39-51 12 p. 14Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Linguistic landscapes as discursive frame Chinatown in Paris in the eyes of new Chinese migrants
Zhao, F., 16 Jun 2021, In: Linguistic Landscape: An International Journal. 7, 2, p. 235-257 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus) -
Review of Amiena Peck, Christopher Stroud & Quentin Williams (eds) Making sense of people and place in linguistic landscapes.
Zhao, F., 2019, In: Language in Society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review