Book
Li, Wei (2018). Pragmatic transfer and development: evidence from EFL learners in China. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing. doi: 10.1075/pbns.287
Book Chapters
Li, W. (2015). A sociopragmatic analysis of email requests in mandarin Chinese and Australian English. Translation and cross-cultural communication studies in the Asia Pacific. (pp. 437-457) edited by Leong Ko and Ping Chen. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill - Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789004299245_027
Li, Wei (2013). Pragmatic failure in cross-cultural communication. 翻译研究与跨文化交际. (pp. 280-296) edited by Leong Ko and Ping Chen. Taiwan: Bookman.
Journal Articles
Li, Wei, Wei, Yongping, Chen, Lijuan, Chen, Zhenjie, Li, Manchun, Chen, Wenqi, Yang, Kunshu, Xu, Diandian and Zhao, Qiqi (2025). Multiple environmental inequalities between Global South and Global North in over 10,000 urban centers. npj Urban Sustainability, 5 (1) 111, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s42949-025-00302-z
Chen, Wenqi, Chen, Lijuan, Wei, Yongping, Ruan, Linlin, Fu, Yanhua, Li, Wei, He, Tingting and Xiao, Wu (2025). Using the Forel-Ule index (FUI) to track the water quality of subsidence water bodies across the life cycle of coal mining in eastern China. Journal of Environmental Management, 374 124037, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124037
Li, Wei, Chen, Qiaoli, Baby, Thejus, Jin, Song, Liu, Yun, Yang, Guangze and Zhao, Chun-Xia (2021). Insight into drug encapsulation in polymeric nanoparticles using microfluidic nanoprecipitation. Chemical Engineering Science, 235 116468, 116468. doi: 10.1016/j.ces.2021.116468
Li, Wei and Jiang, Wenying (2019). Requests made by Australian learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 10 (1), 23-34. doi: 10.17507/jltr.1001.03
Jiang, Wenying and Li, Wei (2018). Linking up learners of Chinese with native speakers through WeChat in an Australian tertiary CFL curriculum. Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 3 (1) 14. doi: 10.1186/s40862-018-0056-0
Wang, Shaobin and Li, Wei (2007). An empirical study on pragmatic transfer in the performance of refusals (in Chinese). Foreign Language Research (4), 77-82.
Li, W. (2005). Zhong Ao Ju Jue Yan Yu Xing Wei Zhi Bi Jiao. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing, 21, 86-91.
Li, Wei (2002). Indirectness in English and its pedagogical significance. Contemporary Education, 11, 11-13.
Thesis
Li, Wei (2009). Pragmatic Transfer by Chinese EFL Learners in Requests. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comp Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland.