Research in the Language and Communication Centre (LCC)
| Books, journal special issues, and reports |
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| Bhatia, T. K., & Kathpalia, S. S. (Eds.). (2019). World Englishes and cross-cultural advertising. World Englishes, Special Issue, 38(3), 348-351 |
| Frattarola, A. (2018). Modernist Soundscapes: Auditory Technology and Novel. University Press of Florida. |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2019). Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31430-9 |
| Jain, R. (2021). Multilingual Singapore: Language policies, linguistic realities. Multilingual Asia Series. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. |
| Journal articles |
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| Chau, M. H., Zhu, C., Jacobs, G. M., Delante, N., Asmi, A., Ng, S., John, S. S., Guo, Q., & Shunmugam, K. (2022). Eco-linguistics for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of World Languages, 8(2), 323-345. https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2021-0027 |
| Delante, N. (2017). Perceived impact of online written feedback on students’ writing and learning: A reflection. Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 18(6). 772-804. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2017.1351351 |
| Delante, N. (2019). Intercultural communication in the classroom: A study of a foreign teacher's rhetorical practices that accomplish learning [Doctoral dissertation, University of the Philippines Open University]. UPOU Repository. https://repository.upou.edu.ph/handle/20.500.13073/511 |
| Delante, N. (2019). Natural disasters reconstruct the self: A thematic analysis of youth survivors’ narratives about typhoon Haiyan. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 7(13), 113-129. https://nalans.com/index.php/nalans/article/view/174 |
| Delante, N. (2020). Challenges, paradigm shift and theoretical underpinnings of learning advising in higher education: The case of an Australian university in Singapore. Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, 3(1), 51-64. https://journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.php/jalt/article/view/199 |
| Delante, N. (2020). Classroom teaching as an intercultural communication phenomenon: A thematic analysis of a foreign teacher’s rhetorical practices as communication dynamic. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 49(6), 536-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2020.1790406 |
| Delante, N. (2021). Surviving a natural disaster as a semiotic reformation of the self and worldview. Semiotica: Journal Association for Semiotic Studies/Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique International, 243(2021), 353-386. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0130 |
| Delante, N. (2023). Trolling and fake news diminish critical analysis and morality: Insights from Philippine newspapers and trolling narratives. In V. Benson & J. McAlaney (Eds.), Handbook of social media use volume 2: Online relationships, security, privacy, and society. Academic Press/Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-28804-3.00002-8 |
| Delante, N. (2025). Pahan-making: Weaving identity, tradition, and the courage to hold on to the past. Simbolismo: Signs, Identities, Meanings, 1(2), 42-50. https://simbolismo.org/index.php/ssim/article/view/71 |
| Delante, N. (2025). Exploring the signs and objects in aswang accounts and descriptions in academic texts: A semiotic and critical interpretation. Simbolismo: Signs, Identities, Meanings, 1(2), 52-92. https://simbolismo.org/index.php/ssim/article/view/59 |
| Delante, N., Soo-Chee, E. W., & Toh, L. L. A. (2025). Signs and objects in op-ed articles on loneliness in the US and Singapore newspapers: A semiotic interpretation. Language and Semiotic Studies, 11(1), 95-124. https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2024-0061 |
| Delante, N., Wong, C., & Wang, P. (2017). Using PELA to predict international business students’ English writing performance with contextualised English writing workshops as intervention program. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 14(1), 1-23. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.T2025020600013191172259324 |
| Frattarola, A. (2009). Developing an ear for the modernist novel: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, and James Joyce. Journal of Modern Literature, 33(1), 132-153. |
| Frattarola, A. (2009). Modernism and the irresponsible allusion: Joyce, Eliot and Pound. In D. Jernigan, N. Murphy, B. Quigley, & T. Wagner (Eds.), Literature and Ethics: Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies. New York: Cambria Press. |
| Frattarola, A. (2009). The modernist “Microphone Play”: Listening in the dark to the BBC. Modern Drama, 52(4), 449-468. |
| Frattarola, A. (2010). A glimpse of Aidan Higgins through his critical work. In N. Murphy (Ed.), Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form. University of Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press. |
| Frattarola, A. (2010). The phonograph and the modernist novel. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 43.1,143-159. |
| Frattarola, A. (2011). Auditory narrative in the modernist novel: Prosody, music, and the subversion of vision in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, 44(1), 5-27. |
| Frattarola, A. (2012). Fabricating history through folklore in Ming Cher's Spider Boys. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, 50(1), 83-96. |
| Frattarola, A. (2013). The limitations of vision and power of folklore in John Dos Passos’s USA. Studies in the Novel, 45(1), 80-101. |
| Frattarola, A. (2017). Community gardens or affordable housing: A false dichotomy grows in the Lower East Side. Moving Worlds, 17.1, 69-78. |
| Frattarola, A. (in press). The Aura of the Phonographic Relic: Hearing the Voices of the Dead. In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Death. Routledge. |
| Heah, C., & Kathpalia, S. S. (2013). Conventional and culture-specific metaphors in Singapore financial discourse. ESP Across Cultures, 10, 107-204. |
| Hsieh, Y. C. (2017). A case study of the dynamics of scaffolding among ESL learners and online resources in collaborative learning. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 30(1-2), 115-132. |
| Jacobs, G., & Delante, N. (2017). Why do we teach the way we teach? Two tertiary ESL teachers' reflections on their differing practice. The English Teacher, 46(2). 58-72. https://meltajournals.com/index.php/TET/article/view/61 |
| Jain, R., & Wee, L. (2018). Cartographic mismatches and language policy: The case of Hindi in Singapore. Language Policy, 17(1), 99-118. |
| Jain, R., & Wee, L. (2019). Diversity management and the presumptive universality of categories: the case of the Indians in Singapore. Current Issues in Language Planning, 20(1), 16-32. |
| Kathpalia, S. S. (2017). Review of the book Critical genre analysis: Investigating interdiscursive performance in professional practice, by V. K. Bhatia. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 28,
50-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2017.04.002 |
| Kathpalia, S. S. (2018). Neologisms: Word creation processes in Hindi-English code-mixed words. English World-Wide 39(1), 34-59. |
| Kathpalia, S. S. (2019). Redefining gender stereotypes in Indian English advertising. World Englishes, 38(3), 486-351. |
| Kathpalia, S. S., & Ong, K. K. W. (2015). The use of code-mixing in Indian billboard advertising. World Englishes, 34(4), 557-575. |
| Kathpalia, S. S., & See, E. K. (2016). Improving argumentation through student blogs. System, 58, 25-36. |
| Kathpalia, S. S., Ong, K. K. W., & Leong, A. P. (2019). Communication needs of science graduate students. RELC Journal, 51(2), 227-243. |
| Kathpalia, S. S., See E. K., & Tom, K. M. (2020). A blended scientific communication course for undergraduate students: Addressing the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. ESP Today, 8(2), 182-205. |
| Lam, S.T.E. (2021). A web-based feedback platform for peer and teacher feedback on writing: An Activity Theory perspective. Computers and Composition 62, 102666. |
| Lam, S.T.E. (2022). L2 writers’ response to and use of teacher feedback: An Activity Theory perspective. The Journal of Asia TEFL 19(1), 66 – 92. |
| Lee, H. H., Leong, A. P., & Song, G. (2017). Investigating teacher perceptions of feedback. ELT Journal, 71(1), 60–68. |
| Lee, J.C.P. (2023). Gaze and facial expression in engineering student presentations: A case study of a high- and low-performing presenter. ESP Today, 11(1), 6-30. https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2023.11.1.1 |
| Leong, A. P. (2013). Thinking critically: A look at students’ critiques of a research article. Higher Education Research Development, 32(4), 575-589. |
| Leong, A. P. (2014). The passive voice in scientific writing: The current norm in science journals. Journal of Science Communication, 13(1), 1-16. |
| Leong, A. P. (2015). Topical themes and thematic progression: The ‘picture’ of research articles. Text & Talk, 35(3), 289-315. |
| Leong, A. P. (2016). Thematic density of research-article abstracts: A systemic-functional account. Word, 62(4), 209–227. |
| Leong, A. P. (2016). The thematic structure of homepages: An exploratory systemic-functional account. Semiotica, 2016(210), 105–127. |
| Lin, B. (2015). Using SFL in an appliable stylistics: Exploring verbal artistry and its implications for poetic translation. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 10(1), 13-27. |
| Matwick, K. (2016). Multimodal legitimation strategies on tv cooking shows. Multimodal Communication, 5(2), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1515/mc-2016-0020 |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2014). Storytelling and synthetic personalization in television cooking shows. Journal of Pragmatics, 71, 151- 159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.08.005 |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2015). East meets West: The discourse of Japanese American cookbooks as intercultural communication. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 39. https://www.immi.se/intercultural/nr39/matwick.html |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2015). Inquiry in television cooking shows. Discourse & Communication, 9(2), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481315576629 |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2017). Cooking at home: A multimodal narrative analysis of Food Network. Discourse, Context, & Media, 17, 20-29 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.03.003 |
| Matwick, K. & Matwick, K. (2017). Culinary tourism in Central America: A cross-analysis of government tourism websites. Journal of Culinary Science & Technology, 16(3), 286-309. DOI: 10.1080/15428052.2017.1378601 |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, Kelsi. (2017). Self-deprecatory humor on TV cooking shows. Language & Communication, 56, 33-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2017.04.005 |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2017). Women’s language in female celebrity chef cookbooks. Celebrity Studies, 9(1), 53-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2017.1325761 |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2018). Politeness and pseudo-intimacy in a food radio call-in program. Discourse, Context & Media, 21, 46-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.11.006 |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2018). Restaurant reviews and college writing: A framework for teaching. Teaching Journalism & Mass Communication (TJMC), 8(2), 25-37. https://aejmc.us/spig/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/12/TJMC-8.2-MatwickMatwick.pdf |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2019). Bloopers and backstage talk on TV cooking shows. Text & Talk, 40(1), 49-74. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2019-2052 |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2019). Book Review of The Discursive Construction of Class and Lifestyle: Celebrity chef cookbooks in post-socialist Slovenia, by Ana Tominc, Discourse & Society, 30(3), 324-329. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926519842670c |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2019). Linguistic landscape and authenticity in a Japanese supermarket in Singapore. Open Linguistics, 5(1), 532-552. DOI: 10.1515/opli-2019-0029 |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2020). Trump-Kim 2018 Singapore Summit and culinary diplomacy: The role of food and symbols in international relations. Place Branding & Public Diplomacy. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41254-020-00188-x |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2022). Comics, humor, and public hygiene on Singapore’s national campaign posters. Discourse, Context & Media, 46, 100590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100590 |
| Matwick, K. (2022). Singapore Hawkers and Hawkerpreneurs: Tradition and Imagination Preserving and Creating Food Cultures. Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. Food & Imagination 2021. |
| Song, G., Lee, H. H., & Leong, A. P. (2017). Students’ response to feedback: An exploratory study. RELC Journal, 48(3), 357–372. |
| Winder, R., Kathpalia, S. S., & Koo, S. L. (2016). Writing centre tutoring sessions: Addressing students’ concerns. Educational Studies, 42(4), 323-339. |
| Winder, R.V.P., MacKinnon, J., Li, S. Y., Lin B.C.T.L., Heah, C.L.H., da Costa, L. M., Kuribayashi, T., & Bond, F. (2017). NTUCLE: Developing a Corpus of Learner English to provide writing support for engineering students. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA 2017) (pp.1-11) |
| Book chapters |
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| Delante, N. (2023). Teacher authenticity is teacher reflectivity. In A. B. Asmawi, G. M. Jacobs, G. Qingli, & W. A. Renandya (Eds.). Stories of teacher authenticity (pp. 59-63). Peachey Publications, Devon, United Kingdom. |
| Delante, N. (2023). Trolling and fake news diminish critical analysis and morality: Insights from Philippine newspapers and trolling narratives. In V. Benson & J. McAlaney (Eds.), Handbook of social media use volume 2: Online relationships, security, privacy and society. Academic Press/Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-28804-3.00002-8 |
| Delante, N., & Jacobs, G. M. (2018). Email behaviours. In K. H. Foo & K. Thirumaran (Eds.), First class behaviours for first world nations: Public behaviour in Singapore (pp. 32-39). Various Authors. |
| Delante, N., & Jacobs, G. M. (2018). Cultivating positive social networking behaviour. In K. H. Foo & K. Thirumaran (Eds.), First class behaviours for first world nations: Public behaviour in Singapore (pp. 26-31). Various Authors. |
| Jain, R. and Wee, L. (2015). Multilingual education in Singapore: Beyond language communities? in Yiakoumetti, A. (Ed.) Multilingualism and Language in Education: Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Perspectives from Commonwealth Countries. Pp 67-85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Shah, S. & Jain, R. (2017). Gujarati in Singapore. In C. Seals & S. Shah (Eds.), Heritage Language Policies around the World (pp.199-217). Abingdon; New York: Routledge. |
| Jain, R. and Wee, L. (2019). Language Education Policy, Singapore. In A. Kirkpatrick & T. Liddicoat (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook on Language Education Policy in Asia (pp. 272—285) Routledge. |
| Jain, R. (2021). The other mother tongues of Singaporean Indians. In R. Jain (Ed.). Multilingual Singapore: Language policies, linguistic realities (pp. 65—84). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. |
| Jain, R. (2021). Multilingual Singapore: Language policies, challenges, and responses. In R. Jain (Ed.). Multilingual Singapore: Language policies, linguistic realities (pp. 1—11). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. |
| Jain, R. (2022). The Indian Languages of the Indians in Singapore in G. N. Devy. & V. K. Tadakamalla (Ed.) Indian Languages in the Diaspora (pp 31-46). People's Linguistic Survey of India, Volume 47. Orient BlackSwan. |
| Jain, R. & Selvarajan S. (preprint). Contemporary Issues of Integrating New Indian Immigrants in Singapore. World Scientific Publishing. |
| Kathpalia, S. S. (2012). Is arbitration being colonized by litigation? – Practitioners’ views in the Singapore context. In V. K. Bhatia, C. N. Candlin, & M. Gotti (Eds.), Discourse and practice in international commercial arbitration: Issues, challenges and prospects (pp. 263-282). London: Ashgate. |
Kathpalia, S. S., & Koo, S. L. (2014). The changing landscape for business communication. In V. K. Bhatia & S. Bremner (Eds.),The Routledge handbook of language and professional communication (pp. 274-286). New York/London:
Routledge.
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| Leong, A. P. (2018). Project-based teaching. In J. I. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (pp. 780–788). Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons. |
| Lin, B. (2014). Stylistics in translation. In P. Stockwell & S. Whiteley (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of stylistics (pp. 573-589). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Lin, B. (2015). Functional stylistics. In V. Sotirova (Ed.), The Bloomsbury companion to stylistics (pp. 57-75). London: Bloomsbury. |
| Matwick, K., & Matwick, K. (2022). Doing research through cookbooks and cooking shows. In C. Gomez-Corona & H. Rodrigues (Eds.), Consumer Research Methods in Food Science. Springer Nature. Book Chapter. (In press) |
| Ong, K. K. W., & Kathpalia, S. S. (2017). Argumentation and floor management in computer-supported collaborative learning. In R. Breeze & C. S. Guinda (Eds.), Essential competencies for English medium university teaching (pp. 201-217). New York: Springer. |
| Shah, S., & Jain, R. (2017). Gujarati in Singapore. In C. Seals & S. Shah (Eds.), Heritage language policies around the world (pp.199-217). New York: Routledge. |
