PUBLICATIONS
2019 Integrationism and the Self. Reflections on the Legal Personhood of Animals. London: Routledge
2019 The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning: Corbett v Corbett and the Invention of Legal Sex. Cham: Palgrave.
2014 Word Meaning and Legal Interpretation: An Introductory Guide. Basingstoke: Palgrave, MacMillan. 243pp.
2009 Language, Meaning and the Law. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 244 pp.
2007 Definition in Theory and Practice: language, lexicography and the law. London: Continuum. 238 pp. (with R. Harris)
2007 Special edition of Language Sciences on the History of Linguistics (forthcoming) (with Hans-Georg Wolf).
2006 The Romantic theory of language: writing and speech in Western views of the Chinese language. Critical Zone: A Forum of Chinese & Western Knowledge 2: 82-105.
2005 Race and the Third Reich: linguistics, racial anthropology and genetics in the dialectic of Volk. Cambridge: Polity Press. 261 pp.
2005 A Dictionary of Cantonese slang: the language of Hong Kong movies, street gangs and city life London: Hurst & Co; Singapore: NUS; Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. Principal editor. (with K. Bolton) 492 pp.
2004 "Race science and scientific racism", in ed. E. Cashmore, Encylopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies , London: Routledge, pp. 385-9.
2002 "'Distant mirror' of the self: the image of the Jews in Chinese culture" (review article) Asian Ethnicities 3 (2): 256-262.
2002 "Media mythologies: the case of triad language." In eds. C. Barron, N. Bruce, and D. Nunan, Knowledge and discourse, London: Longman, pp. 147-163. [with K. Bolton]
2002 "The language myth and the race myth: twin evils of modern identity politics?" In ed. Roy Harris, The Language Myth in Western Culture, London: Curzon, pp. 118-138.
2001 "Cultural and conceptual relativism, universalism and the politics of linguistics." In eds. R. Dirven, B. Hawkins & E. Sandikcioglu, Language and Ideology I: cognitive theoretical approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 277-296.
2000 "Cross-border Categories: Ethnic Chinese and the Sino-Vietnamese Border at Mong Cai." In eds. G. Evans, C. Hutton, and K.E. Kuah, Where China meets Southeast Asia, pp. 254-276. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
2000 "Linguistics in cross-cultural communication: From the Chinese Repository to the 'Chinese Emerson'." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 9: 145-163 [with K. Bolton].
1999 Linguistics and the Third Reich. Mother-tongue fascism, race and the science of language. London & New York: Routledge.
1990 Abstraction and instance: the type-token relation in linguistic theory. Oxford: Pergamon.
