LIU Zhixin
I am a MA by Research student in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore. I received my BA (Honours) in Applied English (First Class) from University of Liverpool in 2023. My research interests are particularly on how postmodern theories can be applied to everyday semiotic and sociolinguistic phenomena in relation to power structure and identity (re)construction.
| Research Interests/ Primary Fields |
Metapragmatics, Language Ideology, Commodification of Language, Sociolinguistics of Globalization, Semiotic Landscape, Digital Communication, Linguistic Anthropology |
| Dissertation Advisor | Professor Joseph Sung-Yul PARK |
| Recent Presentations | ‘Female tattooing as a neoliberal practice in Chinese digital space: Skinscaping, affective economy, and posthumanist materiality.’ 2022 Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference (ASFLA2022), Sydney, Australia, 23-25 September 2022.
‘Chronotopeography, scale, and politicization of place: The semioscaping of a post-socialist village in rural China.’ Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 (SS24), Ghent, Belgium, 13-16 July 2022. ‘Linguistic choice, social identity, and intergroup conflict of framing homosexuality: A mixed-methods exploration of Chinese newspaper.’ The 17th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP 17), Hong Kong, China, 22-25 June 2022. |
| Publications | 2023. 'Liminalizing and affectivizing cityscape as a branding practice: A sociolinguistic ethnography in urban China’, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2023.2215720 |