Publications

King, Kendall, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Lyn Fogle, Jia Jackie Lou, and Barbara Soukup, eds. 2008.Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Lou, Jia. 2007. The implication of technology for language policy and practice: A case study of Pinyin romanization in China. eVox: Georgetown Working Papers in Language, Discourse, & Society 1 (1), 16-30.

Lou, Jia. 2007. Revitalizing Chinatown into a heterotopia: A geosemiotic analysis of shop signs in Washington, DC's Chinatown. Space and Culture 10 (2), 170-194.

Refereed Presentations

Lou, Jia. 2008. Resemiotizing linguistic landscape: A case study of Washington, DC’s Chinatown. Poster presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Amsterdam.

Lou, Jia. 2008. Retelling a story, reconstructing a place: Analyzing a place narrative in public space. Paper presented at Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2008. Washington, D.C.

Lou, Jia. 2007. The English morpheme "-ing" as discourse marker in online Chinese text: A corpus-based sociolinguistic analysis. Paper presented at International Pragmatics Association Conference (IprA) 10, Göteborg, Sweden.

Lou, Jia. 2007. The implications of technology for understanding language policy and practice: How Pinyin romanization helped China in the age of the multilingual Internet. Paper presented at Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS) 2007 Conference, Washington, D.C.            

Lou, Jia. 2005. The old and new faces of Chinatown: A geosemiotic analysis of Chinatowns' shop signs in Washington, DC and Boston. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) 104, Washington, D.C.

Lou, Jia. 2005. From English morpheme to symbol of Chinese netizenship: Exploring -ing in Chinese blogs. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 34, New York City.

Lou, Jia. 2005. Connecting the online and the offline: A preliminary study of display names in computer-mediated interactions. Poster presented at Language and Global Communication Conference, Cardiff, Wales.

Lou, Jia. 2005. The presentation of self through online display names: A preliminary study on identity construction in computer-mediated interactions. Paper presented at Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS) 2005 Conference, Washington, D.C.