Dr Jackie Jia Lou 樓佳
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Overview
Overview
Biography
My main research interest is concerned with language and the city, especially how languages are used in transnational urban spaces like Chinatown and how such spaces are represented and reconstructed through discourse. This often entails an eclectic research design which integrates sociolinguistic and discourse analysis with social- and geo-semiotic analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and more recently, mobile video ethnography. Recently, I have also extended this approach to transnational educational spaces in collaboration with language educators. I particularly welcome opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers of shared interests as well as with writers, artists, and community groups. I am also an associate editor of the journal Linguistic Landscapes (John Benjamins).
Current research projects include:
BAAL Applying Linguistics Grant 2018 – 2019: Increasing the visibility of linguistic diversity in an international school: Children as co-researchers and co-designers of linguistic landscape (in collaboration with Ms. Susan Stewart and Prof. Jean Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck)Birkbeck Research Innovation Fund 2018 – 2019: Navigating the linguistic landscapes of Chinatown: Spatial narrations of urban change
#wordswewear: language, mobility and materiality in the semiotic landscape (in collaboration with Prof. Adam Jaworski, the University of Hong Kong)
Qualifications
- Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2009
Web profiles
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research overview
My main research interest is concerned with language and the city, especially how languages are used in transnational urban spaces like Chinatown and how such spaces are represented and reconstructed through discourse. This often entails an eclectic research design which integrates sociolinguistic and discourse analysis with social- and geo-semiotic analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and more recently, mobile video ethnography. Recently, I have also extended this approach to transnational educational spaces in collaboration with language educators. I particularly welcome opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers of shared interests as well as with writers, artists, and community groups. I am also an associate editor of the journal Linguistic Landscapes (John Benjamins).
Current research projects include:
BAAL Applying Linguistics Grant 2018 – 2019: Increasing the visibility of linguistic diversity in an international school: Children as co-researchers and co-designers of linguistic landscape (in collaboration with Ms. Susan Stewart and Prof. Jean Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck)
Birkbeck Research Innovation Fund 2018 – 2019: Navigating the linguistic landscapes of Chinatown: Spatial narrations of urban change
#wordswewear: language, mobility and materiality in the semiotic landscape (in collaboration with Prof. Adam Jaworski, the University of Hong Kong) -
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Language, space, and place; linguistic and semiotic landscapes; urban discourse; transnational migration; sociolinguistic ethnography.
Current PhD students:
Fengzhi Zhao: Language, Space, and Cosmopolitan Identity in Contemporary Shanghai
Maha El-Farhan: Language Emplacement, Meaning-Making & The Sense of Public Space: An Examination of Activism Signage in Bloomsbury’s Linguistic Landscape
Zuzana Rozsypalova: The discursive construction of the City of London: A study on the multimodal representations of urban historyDoctoral alumni since 2013-14
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FENGZHI ZHAO
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MAHA EL-FARHAN
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Doing Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics (ARLL004S4)
- Dissertation (LNLN004D7)
- Research Methods and Design (LNLN019S7)
- Linguistics Final Year Project (LNLN023S6)
- Approaches to Language (Level 4) (LNLN026S4)
- Language, Culture and Communication (LNLN063S7)
- Introduction to Applied Linguistics (LNLN076S7)
- Independent Literature Review (SSAC012S7)
- Empirical Research Skills Training Workshop (SSAC035Z7)
- Language, Culture, and Communication (Level 5) (SSAC052H5)
- Postgraduate Research Seminars (SSAC059Z7)
- Investigating Language (SSAC060H5)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Jaworski, A. and Lou, Jackie Jia (2020) #wordswewear: mobile texts, expressive persons, and conviviality in urban spaces. Social Semiotics 31 (1), pp. 108-135. ISSN 1035-0330.
- Lee, J.W. and Lou, Jackie Jia (2019) The ordinary semiotic landscape of an unordinary place: spatiotemporal disjunctures in Incheon’s Chinatown. International Journal of Multilingualism 16 (2), pp. 187-203. ISSN 1479-0718.
- Lou, Jackie Jia (2018) Discussion: The local practice of “Global Chinese”. Global Chinese 4 (1), pp. 89-101. ISSN 2199-4382.
- Lou, Jackie Jia (2017) Spaces of consumption and senses of place: a geosemiotic analysis of three markets in Hong Kong. Social Semiotics 27 (4), pp. 513-531. ISSN 1035-0330.
- Lou, Jackie Jia (2016) Shop sign as monument: the discursive recontextualisation of a neon sign. Linguistic Landscape: An International Journal 2 (3), pp. 211-222. ISSN 2214-9953.
- Lou, Jackie Jia and Jaworski, A. (2016) Itineraries of protest signage: semiotic landscape and the mythologizing of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Journal of Language and Politics 15 (5), pp. 612-645. ISSN 1569-2159.
Book
- Lou, Jackie Jia (2016) The linguistic landscape of Chinatown: a sociolinguistic ethnography. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781783095629.
- Jenks, C. and Lou, Jackie Jia and Bhatia, A., eds. (2015) The discourse of culture and identity in national and transnational contexts. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138901919.
Book Section
- Lou, Jackie Jia (2020) The narrative arc of nation branding: staging Shanghai World Expo 2010 in historical events. In: Irene, T. and Tovar, J. (eds.) Research Companion to Language and Country Branding. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780367343590.
- Lou, Jackie Jia (2017) Linguistic landscape and ethnographic fieldwork. In: Mallinson, C. and Childs, B. and Van Herk, G. (eds.) Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications (2nd edition). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138691377.
- Lou, Jackie Jia (2015) Space and place as context. In: Flowerdew, John (ed.) Discourse in Context. Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3. London, UK: Bloomsbury. pp. 205-223. ISBN 9781623563011.
- Lou, Jackie Jia (2014) The other side of the postcard: navigating linguistics landscapes in Hong Kong. In: Curry, J. and Hanstedt, P. (eds.) Reading Hong Kong, Reading Ourselves.. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. ISBN 9789629372354.