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  1. “Graffiti” on protective gear in China's Covidscape: Mediated actions, affective regimes and resemiotization

    Article • Language & Communication, November 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  2. Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory: A scalar-chronotopic approach

    Article • Language & Communication, September 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  3. Disguise, confrontation, and playfulness: Aminoac on Bilibili in the lens of the carnivalesque

    Article • Critical Discourse Studies, August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  4. 21. Code-switching in Hong Kong

    Article • April 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  5. Borrowing or code-switching? Single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese

    Article • Open Linguistics, January 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  6. “Por Favor Use a Máscara”: Unmasking Macao’s Multilingual Translated Top-Down and Bottom-Up Covidscape During Pandemic Communication

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  7. Coffee shop-naming practices in Shanghai

    Article • Chinese Semiotic Studies, November 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  8. Orthographic variation < Macau>/<Macao > and Macau identity

    Article • Cogent Arts and Humanities, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  9. Translanguaging practices of Macau junior-one students in a remedial class

    Article • Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  10. Constructional Borrowing From English in Hong Kong Cantonese

    Article • Frontiers in Communication, May 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  11. Linguistic landscape in transnational areas: a comparative study of African and Korean neighbourhoods in Guangzhou

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  12. Collective colouring in danmu comments on Bilibili

    Article • Discourse Context & Media, March 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  13. Entextualizing high energy texts: an exploration of modal shift on a Chinese online video-sharing website Bilibili

    Article • Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, January 2022, De Gruyter

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  14. Pedagogical translanguaging in a trilingual context: the case of two EFL classrooms in a Xinjiang university

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  15. Translanguaging or code-switching?

    Article • Chinese Language and Discourse An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, April 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  16. Differentiating graffiti in Macao: activity types, multimodality and institutional appropriation

    Article • Visual Communication, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Hong Zhang, Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  17. Protest graffiti, social movements and changing participation frameworks

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan, Dr. Hong Zhang

  18. Single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese

    Article • Chinese Language and Discourse An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, August 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  19. Flexible and separate multilingualism

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, February 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Hong Zhang, Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  20. The shaping of a multilingual landscape by shop names: tradition versus modernity

    Article • Language and Intercultural Communication, December 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Hong Zhang, Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  21. Portmanteau Constructions, Phrase Structure, and Linearization

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  22. Local voice of Macau

    Article • Global Chinese, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  23. Sentence-Final Particles, Complementizers, Antisymmetry, and the Final-over-Final Constraint*

    Article • December 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  24. A diachronic-functional approach to explaining grammatical patterns in code-switching: Postmodification in Cantonese–English noun phrases

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, March 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  25. English in Hong Kong Cantopop: language choice, code-switching and genre

    Article • World Englishes, March 2009, Wiley

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  26. Code-switching, word order and the lexical/functional category distinction

    Article • Lingua, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  27. Beyond “Contextualization”

    Article • Journal of Language and Social Psychology, March 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan

  28. Code-switching between typologically distinct languages

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Brian H.S. Chan