Dr Jiayi Wang

Dr Jiayi Wang is Associate Professor and Acting Associate Dean at De Montfort University. Her research spans intercultural communication, transnational education (TNE), pragmatics, and teaching and learning in a second or foreign language. She has published widely in leading journals and with major academic publishers, including Cambridge University Press, the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Higher Education Quarterly, Language Learning, and the Journal of Pragmatics..

Selected publications include:

• Relating to others and (not) getting along: What triggers evaluative reactions? (with Helen Spencer-Oatey, 2025)
• Triple-A transnational education (TNE): Addressing intercultural challenges (2025)
• Pragmatics in English Language Learning (co-edited with Nicola Halenko, 2022), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Jiayi holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, where she specialised in professional (business and official) intercultural communication. Alongside her academic career, she has worked as a senior intercultural consultant for organisations including the Supreme Court, AstraZeneca, Jaguar Land Rover, and Deutsche Bank, and previously served as International Project Manager at the Ministry of Justice.

She has supervised more than 50 PhD, postgraduate, and undergraduate dissertations.

Institute of Global Challenges and Cultures

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_Z7zmB4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Selected Publications

• Wang, J. (2026). Transnational education as ecosystem: Rethinking sustainability and equity. Higher Education Quarterly, 80(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.70099
• Zabrodskaja, A., & Wang, J. (2025) Editorial: Intercultural communication and international students. Frontiers in Communication, 10:1729136. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1729136
• Spencer-Oatey, H., & Wang, J. (2025). Relating to others and (not) getting along: What triggers evaluative reactions? Journal of Pragmatics, 243, 6–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.002
• Wang, J. (2025). Triple-A transnational education (TNE): Addressing intercultural challenges. Frontiers in Communication, 10:1568138. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1568138
• Wang, J., & Halenko, N. (2022). “Mind your language”: L2 English emails during study abroad. In N. Halenko & J. Wang (Eds.), Pragmatics in English Language Learning (pp. 29–56). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Halenko, N., & Wang, J. (Eds.). (2022). Pragmatics in English Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Wang, J. (2022). Exacerbating cultural differences in translation/interpreting as intercultural mediation. In D. Busch (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation (pp. 423–432). New York/London: Routledge.
• Chen, X., & Wang, J. (2021). First-order and second-order indirectness in Korean and Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics, 178, 315–328.
• Wang, J. (2021). How and why people are impolite in danmu? Internet Pragmatics, 2(1), 295–322.
• Spencer-Oatey, H., & Wang, J. (2020). Establishing professional intercultural relations. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 49(6), 499–519.
• Spencer-Oatey, H., & Wang, J. (2019). Culture, context, and concerns about face: Synergistic insights from pragmatics and social psychology. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 38(4), 423–440.
• Wang, J. (2009). New models of recidivism analysis in the USA. Crime and Reform Research, 5, 65–68.

Further publications spanning pragmatics, intercultural communication, transnational education (TNE), and applied linguistics from 2009–2026 are available upon request or online.

• Intercultural Communication
• Transnational Higher Education (TNE)
• Pragmatics and Language in Use
• Discourse Analysis
• Applied Linguistics
• Teaching and Learning in a Second/Foreign Language

• PhD in Intercultural Communication, University of Warwick
• EMBA, University of Cambridge
• MA (Distinction)
• BA (First-Class Honours)
• FHEA – Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Editorial board membership:

1. Journal of East Asian Pragmatics
2. Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics

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• Australian National University
• University of York
• University of Surrey
• Cardiff University
• University of Huddersfield
• University of Bologna (Italy)