Assistant Professor
Research Interests
♦ Sociophonetics ♦ Clinical phonetics ♦ Sociolinguistics ♦ Disability Studies ♦ Linguistic Anthropology
Education
PhD in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
MA in Language Studies, National University of Singapore
BS in Geography, National Taiwan University
Positions
2023/08- Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2022/09-2023/07 Postdoctoral Researcher, Cross College Elite Program, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
2019/09-2022/08 Tutor, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Science, University of Edinburgh
Awards and Fellowships
2018-2022 MOE overseas PhD scholarship, Taiwan
Publications
Related to sociolinguistic theory
Wan, T.-L. A. (2025). Listening as Self-Positioning: Revisiting Inoue’s Psychoanalytic Approach to the Listening Subject. Journal of Sociolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12719
Related to race and migration
Wan, T.-L. A. (2025). From online parody to mainstream media: The remediation of mock Vietnamese Mandarin in Taiwan. Discourse, Context & Media, 68, 100960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100960
Wan, T.-L. A. (2025). “Hi, I’m Ruan Yuejiao, from Ho Chi Minh City!”: Digital raciolinguistic enregisterment and indexical hijack of the Vietnamese Mandarin accent. Language in Society, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404524001088
Liu, S.-J. S., & Wan, T.-L. A. (2025). COVID success? For whom? Examining the political representation of migrants in Taiwan. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(2), 295–317.
Wan, T.-L. A., & Cowie, C. (2021). Conflicts between World Englishes: Online metalinguistic discourse about Singapore Colloquial English. English World-Wide, 42(1), 85–110. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00061.wan
Related to geopolitics and political figures
Su, H.-Y., Wan, T.-L. A., & Lee, W.-H. A. (2025). “Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other. Language in Society, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404525101425
Wan, T.-L. A. (2025). Indexing Power Through Self-Reference: Electoral Margins and the Use of Běnxí Among Taiwanese Parliamentarians. Journal of Sociolinguistics, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12727
Wan, T.-L. A. (2022). Islands, geopolitics and language ideologies: Sociolinguistic differentiation between Taiwanese and Kinmenese Hokkien. Language & Communication, 83, 36–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.01.001
Related to disability
Wan, T.-L. A. (2025). Book Review: Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 19(2), 289–293. https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2025.2497155
Wan, T.-L. A. (2024). Indexical deprivation: The dominant link between cochlear implants and global English among Taiwanese deaf individuals. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 34(3), 441–469. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12441
萬宗綸（2024）「你是外國人嗎？」：台灣聽障者的口音與身份誤認經驗。文化研究，38：57–91。 https://doi.org/10.6752/JCS.20246_38.0004
Wan, T.-L. A., Hall-Lew, L., & Cowie, C. (2024). Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect. Language in Society, 53(1), 71–97.
Wan, T.-L. A. (2023). Topic-based variation as both cognitive and agentive: Identity politics, deaf speakers, and hearing researcher. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 9(1), 1–28.
萬宗綸（2023）聽損治療的社會與技術史：評 Virdi (2020) Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 科技、醫療與社會，36：57–66。
Wan, T.-L. A. (2022). Individual variation in performing read-aloud speech among deaf speakers. Linguistics Vanguard, 8(1), 291–303. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0076
Wan, Tsung-Lun Alan (2021). Formulating (dis)ability: Discursive construction of cochlear implant satisfaction. In Jessica Nina Lester (ed.), Discursive Psychology and Disability, 169–97. Springer International Publishing.
Wan, T.-L. A. (2021). Sociolinguistics of pathologized speech: A case of deaf and hard-of-hearing speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 25(3), 438–452. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12466
萬宗綸（2021）電子耳與「聽」的展演：社會語言學的取徑。科技、醫療與社會，33：167–194。
萬宗綸（2016）轉聲∕身術：臺灣聽障者的賽伯格、身分協商與空間性。地理學報，81：1–26.
Others
Wan, Tsung-Lun Alan (2019). Film review: The Gangster’s Daughter (2017). Asian Ethnicity 20(3):396–98.
萬宗綸（2014）差異的召喚：從語言地景的生態隱喻談台北市都市空間的日常觀看。環境與世界，30：97–124。
Service
2025- 第十四屆台灣語言學學會理事
2024- 第四屆台灣障礙研究學會理事