Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications.

Books:

• Li Wei (ed.) (2011) The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader. London: Routledge
• Vivian Cook and Li Wei (eds) (2009) Contemporary Applied Linguistics. Vol. 1 Language Teaching and Learning. London: Continuum. Paperback edition, 2011.
• Li Wei and Vivian Cook (eds) (2009) Contemporary Applied Linguistics. Vol. 2 Linguistics for the Real World. London: Continuum. Paperback edition, 2011.
• Li Wei (ed.) (2009) Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Vol. 1 Linguistic and Developmental Perspectives. London: Routledge
• Li Wei (ed.) (2009) Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Critical Concepts in Linguistics Vol. 2 Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Perspectives. London: Routledge
• Li Wei (ed.) (2009) Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Critical Concepts in Linguistics Vol. 3 Sociolinguistic and Interactional Perspectives. London: Routledge
• Li Wei (ed.) (2009) Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Critical Concepts in Linguistics Vol. 4 Applied Perspectives. London: Routledge
• Li Wei and Moyer, M. (eds) The Blackwell Handbook of Research Methods on Bilingualism and Multilingualism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2009.
• Li Wei (ed.) The Bilingualism Reader. (1^st edition, 2000, 2^nd edition 2007) London: Routledge
• Auer, P. and Li Wei (eds) Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication. Handbook of Applied Linguistics Vol. 5. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. Paperback edition, 2009.
• Zhu Hua, Seedhouse, P., Li Wei and Cook, V. (eds) Language Learning and Teaching as Social Inter-Action. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• J.-M. Dewaele, A. Housen and Li W, (eds). Bilingualism: Beyond Basic Principles. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2003.
• Li W, J.-M. Dewaele, and A. Housen (eds). Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
• Li Wei (1994) Three Generations Two Language One Family: Language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters 

Special Issues of Journals:

• Li Wei (ed.) (2010) BAMFLA of Chinese Children. A special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism, 14, 1.
• Li Wei and Peter Martin (eds) Tensions and Conflicts in Classroom Code-Switching. A special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 12,2
• Li Wei (ed.) Conversational Code-Switching. A special issue of Journal of Pragmatics, 37: 3, 2005
• Li Wei (ed.) Chinese Language, Culture and Communication. Special double issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 7: 3&4, 1996

Recent journal articles:

• Li Wei (2011) Multilinguality, Multimodality and Multicompetence: Code- and mode-switching by minority ethnic children in complementary schools. Modern Language Journal, 95,3.
• Li Wei, (2011) Moment Analysis and translanguaging space: Discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth in Britain. Journal of Pragmatics. 43: 1222–1235
• Li Wei and Wu, Chao-Jung (2009) Polite Chinese children revisited: Creativity and the use of codeswitching in the Chinese complementary school classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 12,2: 193-212
• Li Wei (2010) Voices from the diaspora: Changing hierarchies and dynamics of Chinese multilingualism. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 205 pp. 155–171
• Li Wei and Mayouf Ali Mayouf (2009) The effects of the social status of the elderly in Libya on the way they institutionally interact and communicate with younger physicians. Journal of Pragmatics, 41,1: 136-146
• Chien, Ching-ning Chien, Kao, Li-hua and Li Wei (2008) The Role of Phonological Awareness Development in Young Chinese EFL Learners. Language Awareness, 17,4: 271-88

Book Chapters:

• Li Wei (2010)  The early acquisition of English as a second language: The case of young Chinese learners of English in Britain. In Annick De Houwer and Antje Wilton-Farnklin (eds) English in Europe Today. pp. 95-112. Amsterdam: Benjamins
• Li Wei and Wu, Chao-Jung (2010) Literacy and socialisational teaching in Chinese complementary schools. In Vally Lytra and Peter Martin (eds) Site of Multilingualism. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books. pp. 33-44
• Li Wei and Zhu Hua (2010) Changing Hierarchies in Chinese Language Education for the British Chinese Learners. In Linda Tsung and Ken Cruickshank (eds) Teaching and Learning Chinese in Global Contexts. pp. 11-27. London: Continuum
• Li Wei (2010) Contact. In Jürgen Jaspers, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds) Society and Language Use. Pp. 127-139. Amsterdam: Benjamins
• Li Wei (2010) The nature of linguistic norms and their relevance to multilingual development. In Madalena Cruz-Ferreira (ed.) Multilingual Norms. Pp. 397-404. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang
• Li Wei, Zhu Hua and Wu, Chao-Jung (2009)   Doing Britishness: Multilingual practices, creativity and criticality of British Chinese children. In Nigel P Thomas (ed) Children, Politics and Communication: Participation at the Margins. Bristol: Policy Press.
• Li Wei (2008)  Research perspectives on bilingualism and bilingual education. In Encyclopaedia of Language and Education, Vol. 10. Eds, K.A. King and N.H. Hornberger, pp. 137-150. London: Springer
• Li Wei (2008)  Contact. Handbook of Pragmatics. Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren. Amsterdam: Benjamins