DEPT OF ENGLISH
| Researcher : Ashcroft WD |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ashcroft W.D., Home and Horizon, In: Cynthia vanden Driesen and Ralph Crane, Diaspora: The Australasian Experience. New Delhi, Prestige, 2005, 45-58. |
| Ashcroft W.D., Introduction to the Post-Colonial Studies reader, In: Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Post-Colonial Studies reader. London, Routledge, 2006, 2: 5-8. |
| Ashcroft W.D., Post-Colonial Horizons, In: Ranjam Gosh, (In)fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits. Lanham, Md, University Press of America, 2006. |
| Ashcroft W.D., Representation and Resistance: Edward Said (1938-2003), In: Patrick Colm Hogan, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies . Georgia USA, Georgia Southern University, 2006, 11: 30-42. |
| Ashcroft W.D., Simulation, Resistance and Transformation: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, In: Andreas Gaile , Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey. Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, 2005, 199-214. |
| Ashcroft W.D., Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden , Special Issue: The Australian Sacred, In: Bill Ashcroft, Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden, Antipodes. New York, AAALS, 2005, 19: 113-248. |
| Ashcroft W.D., The Future of English, Pearl River Delta Postgraduate Students Conference. 2006. |
| Ashcroft W.D., The Horizonal Sublime, In: Nicholas Birns, Antipodes. New York, AAALS, 2005, 19: 135-45. |
| Ashcroft W.D., Griffiths G. and Tiffin H., The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. 2006. |
| Ashcroft W.D., Worldliness and Representation: Said, the Public Intellectual and the New World Order, Edward Said and the Future of the Public Intellectual. Canberra, 2006. |
| Researcher : Bolton KR |
| Project Title: | The study of English in Hong Kong: the international corpus of English project in Hong Kong (HK-ICE) |
| Investigator(s): | Bolton KR, Nelson GA, Luke KK |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 07/2002 |
| Abstract: |
| The project attempts to advance the Hong Kong component of the global International Corpus of English (ICE) Project which is a highly prestigious and productive international research project on the English language. The existence of this database will facilitate comparative studies of Hong Kong English, UK and US English, as well as studies of Asian Englishes. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Researcher : Chung HY |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chung H.Y., Language and Gender Representations in the Reality Television Show Survivor: The Amazon. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006. |
| Researcher : Francis EJ |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Francis E.J. and Matthews S.J., A multi-dimensional approach to the category ‘verb’ in Cantonese, Journal of Linguistics. 2005, 41: 269-305. |
| Researcher : Gan WCH |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Gan W.C.H., 'Community and Solitude: Privacy, the Study and the Room in 'A Room of One's Own', Woolfian Boundaries: 16th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. 2006. |
| Gan W.C.H., 'Hong Kong Weather and the Exotic Hollywood Romance', Cinematic Representation of the Tropical Urban. 2006. |
| Gan W.C.H., 'Reperceiving Weather in Hong Kong Films', The Film Scene: Cinema, the Arts, and Social Change. 2006. |
| Researcher : Heim O |
| Project Title: | Local and global currents in recent Maori literature in English |
| Investigator(s): | Heim O |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| Completion Date: | 10/2006 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate the development of Anglophone literature by indigenous Maori in New Zealand over the last ten years, with special attention to the relationship between local and international currents of reception and response; to examine and assess processes of mediation between cultural traditions and technologies of representation as they shape, and are shaped by, Maori literature in English; to publish findings in two substantial adn two shorter scholarly articles. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Heim O., Allegories of Awakening: Melancholy, repetition and 'race' in Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars, In: Otto Heim and Caroline Wiedmer (eds.), Inventing the Past: Memory Work in Culture and History. Basel, Schwabe, 2005, 117-137. |
| Heim O., Duff, Alan, In: Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd (eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia. London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2005. |
| Heim O. and Wiedmer C., Introduction: Figures of memory, In: Heim, Otto; Wiedmer, Caroline (eds.), Inventing the Past: Memory Work in Culture and History. Basel, Schwabe, 2005, 1-14. |
| Heim O. and Wiedmer C., Inventing the Past: Memory Work in Culture and History. Basel, Schwabe, 2005. |
| Heim O., Taylor, Apirana, In: Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, and Janet Todd (eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia. London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2005. |
| Researcher : Ho EYL |
| Project Title: | Theories of the novel in Britain |
| Investigator(s): | Ho EYL, Yin Q.P. |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Louis Cha Fund |
| Start Date: | 01/2000 |
| Abstract: |
| (1) The theory of the novel in Britain is often neglected by both Chinese and Western scholars. The dialogue on the novel between the authors themselves, and between authors and critics in 20th century Britain is the object of inquiry of this project. (2) There is no book in Chinese on the history of fictional theory in Britain. This study seeks to fill a large gap by providing an unprecedented perspective on the evolution and current state of theoretical work on the novel in Britain. |
| Project Title: | Critical and creative english |
| Investigator(s): | Ho EYL |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2002 |
| Completion Date: | 10/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| To study the intellectual historical, and linguistic frameworks of the debates among writers from different cultural backgrounds about the use of English as the language of creative writing. |
| Project Title: | Hong Kong anglophone literature |
| Investigator(s): | Ho EYL |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| Completion Date: | 10/2006 |
| Abstract: |
| The publication of either an extended section of a book-length study on Hong Kong Anglophone literary culture or its equivalent (2-3 articles). |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ho E.Y.L. and Rambukwella H.S., "A Question of Belonging: Reading Jean Arasanayagam through Nationalist Discourse", The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 2006, 41:2: 61-82. |
| Ho E.Y.L., Anita Desai. Writers and Their Work Series. Ed. Isobel Armstrong. Tavistock, UK, Northcote House Publishers, 2006, 118pp. |
| Researcher : Ho LM |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ho L.M., Reading Aloud and Charles Dickens's Style. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2005. |
| Researcher : Hutton CM |
| Project Title: | Jargon, language change and official agencies in Hong Kong: a sociolinguistic study |
| Investigator(s): | Hutton CM |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2002 |
| Completion Date: | 10/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| To evaluate the social status of lists of slang and jargon produced by government agencies in Hong Kong. |
| Project Title: | Race: imagining human diversity 1750-1945 |
| Investigator(s): | Hutton CM |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| This proposal is for a single authored book on the history of racial theorizing in the West, focusing on Britain, France, Germany and the United States. It is is intended to serve as an intellectual guide to those who wish to orient themselves in the complex history of racial theorizing, and would relate the history of racial theorizing to key sociopolitical currents both in Europe and in postcolonial nation states. There is a massive literature on issues of race in sociology, literary theory, ethnic studies, history, anthropology and many other disciplines, but there is no a concise work of this kind to consult.This work would complement rather than compete with the vast number of post-WWII political, sociological and literary works on race, in particular dealing with race politics in the United States, and in former European colonies. It would not overlap significantly with introductory works on postcolonial theory, critical race theory etc., as it focuses specifically on the history of racial theorizing from 1750 to 1945. The book seeks to map out the overall intellectual area, its recurrent preconceptions and ongoing debates, and highlight continuities and discontinuities. These general topics include: whether human diversity should be seen as a blessing or a curse, how this diversity originated and is defined and maintained; whether there is an overall pattern to change (progress in evolution versus racial decline); whether there is a determinative relationship between race and culture. The organization would be thematic, in addition to offering an historical overview. Each chapter/section would aim to give a concise insight into the fundamental terms of the debate, and thus enable students to make connections between the history of these ideas and their contemporary impact and relevance. A guide to further reading and a concise glossary of key terms would also be of value to students. Each chapter/section would be as concise as possible, with the book no more than 80,000 words in length. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Hutton C.M., Linguistics and nationalism, In: Keith Brown, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition). Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2006, 8: 485-488. |
| Hutton C.M., Race and the Third Reich: linguistics, racial anthropology and genetics in the dialectic of Volk. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005, 261. |
| Hutton C.M., Word-stories: etymology as history, In: Nigel Love, Language and History. London, Routledge, 2006, 60-70. |
| Researcher : Kang AM |
| Project Title: | Language and identity in Diaspora: Koreans in Hong Kong |
| Investigator(s): | Kang MA |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| Completion Date: | 10/2006 |
| Abstract: |
| To examine how the relationship between language and identity plays out among speakers who may not see themselves simply as Koreans living abroad while retaining their own language and culture. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Researcher : Kang MA |
| Project Title: | Language and identity in Diaspora: Koreans in Hong Kong |
| Investigator(s): | Kang MA |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| Completion Date: | 10/2006 |
| Abstract: |
| To examine how the relationship between language and identity plays out among speakers who may not see themselves simply as Koreans living abroad while retaining their own language and culture. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Kang M.A., A Discourse-based Study Of Second Generation (korean) Americans: Articulating ‘american’ And ‘korean’ Identities , 40th Annual International Conference of the American Studies Association of Korea . 2005. |
| Kang M.A., Global Englishes, Local Identities: Language And Identity Among Koreans In Hong Kong , Language and Global Communication Conference; Centre for Language and Communication Research; University of Cardiff; Cardiff, Wales. Cardiff, Wales, 2005. |
| Researcher : Kerr DWF |
| Project Title: | Eastern Figures |
| Investigator(s): | Kerr DWF |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC CERG Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2004 |
| Completion Date: | 06/2006 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| Project Title: | Law and order and orientalism |
| Investigator(s): | Kerr DWF |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| Completion Date: | 06/2006 |
| Abstract: |
| To map the relationship between the West and Asia in the colonial and postcolonial period, through a thematic and figural analysis of literary, cultural and administrative texts. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Kerr D.W.F., 'A Quarter Century of English Studies', invited public lecture. Sichuan University, 2006. |
| Kerr D.W.F., 'Agnes Smedley: The Fellow-Traveller's Tale', English research seminar series. University of Hong Kong, 2005. |
| Kerr D.W.F., 'Conrad's Typhoon and the History of China', History Department Research Seminars. University of Hong Kong, 2006. |
| Kerr D.W.F., 'Ruins in the Jungle: Nature and Narrative', Mobilis in Mobile: International Conference on Travel Writing, University of Hong Kong. 2005. |
| Kerr D.W.F., 'Typhoon: Chinese Boxes', Joseph Conrad in Amsterdam, 31st Annual Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society, University of Amsterdam. 2005. |
| Kerr D.W.F., 'Pygmalion in Hong Kong', The Shavian. London, Shaw Society, 2006, 10:2: 2-4. |
| Kerr D.W.F., 'The Quiet American and the Novel', Studies in the Novel. University of North Texas, 2006, 38:1: 95-107. |
| Researcher : Kuehn JC |
| Project Title: | A Century of Travels in China: A Collection of Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s |
| Investigator(s): | Kuehn JC, Kerr DWF |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Research Mentorship Programme |
| Start Date: | 09/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| This project in travel writing studies represents an important initiative to extend the map of travel writing studies to China. We propose to bring together a number of critical essays on English-language travel writing about China between the First Opium War and the founding of the People's Republic. In a total of between twelve and fourteen essay contributions, international scholars will analyse a representative selection of the fictional and non-fictional writings of scientists, merchants, diplomats, missionaries, professional writers of both sexes, and simple travellers in China. The project brings both well-known and neglected travel writers to the fore, and documents their impressions of Chinese cities, landscapes, flora and fauna, customs, people and the work of Europeans abroad, with the overall aim to provide a better understanding and a more comprehensive picture of the evolving image of China. A second aim is to provide innovative critical approaches to travel writing. The volume reviews current theoretical approaches to the travel genre and, it is hoped, opens up new avenues. This project will also lay the foundation work for a second, complementary volume on Chinese travellers in the West, which is currently in its planning phase. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Kuehn J.C., "'Je t'aime ... moi non plus': Deconstructing Love in 'Open Confession'", In: Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Janet Todd, Women's Writing. Routledge, 2006, 13:2: 225-245. |
| Kuehn J.C., "A Fusion of Horizons: Women Travellers in China, 1880-1920", Mobilis in Mobile: An International Conference in Studies in Travel Writing. 2005. |
| Kuehn J.C., 'Marie Corelli's Love Letters to Arthur Severn', In: George P. Landow, The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. 2005. |
| Kuehn J.C., 'Trafficking Exoticism: Popular Late-Victorian Novels on the East’, In: convened by La Trobe University, Melbourne, 'Victorian Traffic': Australasian Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference 2006'. 2006. |
| Kuehn J.C., 'When W. Somerset Maugham Met the Missionaries: Sketches from China and Malaya', Transparant. 2005, 16:3: 15-19. |
| Researcher : Lok IMC |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Lok I.M.C., Cultural Understanding in English Studies: An Exploration of Postcolonial and World Englishes Perspectives. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006. |
| Researcher : Luke KK |
| Project Title: | Linguistic form compression: an investigation of second-order encoding in language |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK, Bodomo AB, Lee WS, Perry C, Nancarrow OT, Han Y. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 09/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To study: (1) for any linguistic expression, how long is too long, and how should length be measured? (2) What are the motivations (both internal and external to language) for linguistic form compression? (3) What kinds of compression methods are available and what is their distribution across languages and language types? Languages from which data will be collected and analysed include Chinese, Dagaare, English, French, German, Hausa, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Swahili, Twi, and others. |
| Project Title: | Linguistic form compression: an investigation of second-order encoding in language |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK, Bodomo AB, Lee WS, Perry C, Nancarrow OT, Han Y. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Merit Award for RGC CERG Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 09/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| Project Title: | Automatic annotation technologies for Cantonese corpus |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK, Fu G |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Applied Research |
| Start Date: | 10/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To build a large-scale annotated Cantonese corpus and develop relative automatic annotation technologies to support Cantonese studies and applications. |
| Project Title: | 'Elastic Sentences': towards a typology of turn continuations in conversation |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK, Flynn C, Zhang W, Wu D.D.Y., Couper-Kuhlen E., Ono T. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 01/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| To specify the inter-relationships among prosody, syntax, and pragmatics in the production and comprehension of turn continuations in Chinese conversations, and to test, through comparison with other languages, the validity of Couper-Kuhlen, Ono and Vorreiter's cross-linguistic typology of turn continuations. |
| Project Title: | 'Elastic Sentences': towards a typology of turn continuations in conversation |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Merit Award for RGC CERG Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 01/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| Project Title: | Dynamic construction of a Chinese corpus for Hong Kong |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC CERG Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2005 |
| Completion Date: | 06/2006 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| Project Title: | Doctor-Patient Interaction in Hong Kong: Linguistic and Conversational Perspectives |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK, Flynn C, Zhang W, Lam TP |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 12/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| The purpose of the proposed research is to achieve a better understanding of factors that may enhance or otherwise reduce the effectiveness of communication between doctors and patients during medical consultations in Hong Kong. Doctor-patient interaction is a hot topic of research in the US, the UK and Europe in recent years, but has not received very much attention locally. As a pilot study, the proposed project will focus on one particular primary care clinic in Hong Kong, namely the Apleichau clinic, where one of the co-investigators works. The data collected from this clinic will be closely analysed using proven techniques commonly employed in Linguistics and Conversation Analysis. The outcome of the research should contribute towards the enhancement of doctor-patient interaction in Hong Kong. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Researcher : Matthews SJ |
| Project Title: | Parsing principles and constituent order in Cantonese |
| Investigator(s): | Matthews SJ, Francis EJ, Perry C, Yip V. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 01/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate some typologically unusual word order properties of Cantonese from the perspective of the 'performance' theory of Hawkins (1994) and related work. |
| Project Title: | Parsing principles and constituent order in Cantonese |
| Investigator(s): | Matthews SJ |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Merit Award for RGC CERG Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 01/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| Project Title: | Towards a Grammar of Chinese Pidgin English |
| Investigator(s): | Matthews SJ, Smith GPS, Ansaldo |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 09/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| The project seeks to develop a gramatical sketch of the grammatical structure of Chinese Pidgin English (CPE). In particular the work will evaluate the role of Cantonese as substrate language. Grammatical issues to be addressed include: 1. Use of personal pronouns (my wanchee vs. me wanchee vs. I wanchee) 2. Presence vs absence of wh-movement (you pay me what offer vs. you pay me what offer) 3. Placement of prepositional phrases and time adverbials (we tomorrow makee move) 4. Null subjects and objects (must likey or no likey) 5. Use of have/hab as an auxiliary (have bring rice this voyage?) The work also aims to provide analyses of the grammatical functions of key words such as 'long' as a comitative preposition (do littee pidgeon long you) and 'make' as a 'dummy' or light verb (I makee mendee). These usages do not suggest Cantonese influence, but have typological and possibly historical parallels in other contact languages of the Pacific region such as Tok Pisin which have been extensively studied by the co-investigators. These parallels will be addressed with particular attention to the respective roles of historical contacts between contact languages and typological factors. The findings will be published in a book on the history and structure of Chinese Pidgin English to be co-edited by the investigators. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Researcher : Mok SK |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Mok S.K., The Ends of History: The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, Timothy Mo and Graham Swift. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006. |
| Researcher : Polzenhagen F |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Wolf H.H. and Polzenhagen F., Intercultural Communication In English – A Cognitive Linguistic Focus On Neglected Issues, LAUD Linguistic Agency. Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 2006, 683: 1-26. |
| Researcher : Rambukwella HS |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ho E.Y.L. and Rambukwella H.S., "A Question of Belonging: Reading Jean Arasanayagam through Nationalist Discourse", The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 2006, 41:2: 61-82. |
| Researcher : Richards PK |
| Project Title: | Distancing English and Speech and Declaration |
| Investigator(s): | Richards PK |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| *Objectives 1 The objective of this proposal is twofold: first, to complete the research necessary for a book entitled Distancing English and, second, to secure a transition of hard-to-retrieve and emerging materials that have come from this research toward a second book project, tentatively entitled Speech and Declaration. 2 The first part of this proposal, completion of Distancing English, is imminent and requires immediate access to a range of primary and secondary sources both here and in the United States. Distancing English contributes to fields of research pertaining to settler regions, regionalism, postcolonialism, drama, and poetry. The book is in its final stages of editing; cross-checking references, handling rare manuscripts, preparing notes and indices, reequesting final materials overseas, and correspondences with specialists are all in process, heading toward the final stages of placement and production. 3 The second part of this proposal, examining formative speeches in relation to written and spoken language, suggests an equally important stage in the research of the field that underwrites Distancing English. The purpose of this proposal is to make possible the research necessary to make accurate transitions to a second book project that will look widely—through literature, folklore, and linguistics—at precise and archival pivots between spoken and written language. These pivots, at the nodes of these interdisiplinary fields, will help to identify regional decisions, often expressed in speeches and declarations, that are formative in shaping larger understandings of how lyric (including drama) and narrative evolve in relation to historical, political, and social foundations of written or oral genre. Joseph Conrad writes "that the purpose of the work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respetively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood." How does this stated distinction between fiction and oratory hold up or break down in cultures in which written fiction serves oral purposes of speech and declaration, otherwise passed by? How does the potential absence of such a distinction, in turn, render new idiom to language and genre, and in turn, imperialism and foundational blocks of speech? The combination of studies in my proposal aims to look with new vision at the significance of historical origins of the crossroads of “speech” (oral) and “speeches” (oral and written) in the development of recognizable and often so-far unrecognizable patterns of written genre, non-liteary documentation and literature that persists politically and socially in serving oral needs. This is still a relatively young field in relation to the cross-referencing of genre and discipline required to do accurate and sustaining research. My work across disciplines will help to expand the fields and look at questions of temporality, aurality, and orality in literature and language. |
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| Researcher : Rowe C |
| Project Title: | Sociolinguistic variation in Tyneside English dialect semanteme [DO] |
| Investigator(s): | Rowe C, Wolf H.-G.W. |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 09/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| The purpose of the project is to pinpoint the
exact sociolinguistic distribution of the semanteme
DO in Tyneside English. The foundation of this work
has been laid out in research on the distribution
of the semantic unit DO + NOT (Rowe 2004, 2005), because
of its unique structure and status in Tyneside English,
taking as it does the anomalous form |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Researcher : Smethurst P |
| Project Title: | Excursions: critical approaches to travel writing |
| Investigator(s): | Smethurst P |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Low Budget High Impact Programme |
| Start Date: | 11/2001 |
| Abstract: |
| To promote the study of European travel writing by applying to it a range of contemporary theories of literature and culture. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Smethurst P., Introduction to The Travels of Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo. New York, Barnes and Noble, 2005, xxv11-xxxv11. |
| Smethurst P., Postmodern Blackness and Unbelonging in the Works of Caryl Phillips, In: Gonul Pultar, On the Road to Baghdad or, Travelling Biculturalism. Washington, New Academia, 2005, 273-288. |
| Researcher : Tay E |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Tay E., "Hegemony, National Allegory, Exile: The Poetry of Shirley Lim", Textual Practice. 2005, 19. Issue 3: 289-308. |
| Tay E., "Self-Portrait", "Life is only once, like a leaf", "Funerals", Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology. Ed. Tammy Ho. Department of English, The University of Hong Kong, 2006. |
| Tay E., "The Love Song of J. Elsie Prunes-Frock", Dimsum: Asia's Literary Journal. 2005, 11. |
| Tay E., "The Malaya of Isabella Bird and Emily Innes", Mobilis in Mobile: International Conference on Studies in Travel Writing. The University of Hong Kong, 2005. |
| Tay E., "This City and its Pavements", "Naked, you can be Tasty as Honeydew", "Even without a Body", "Cold Wind", SoftBlow. 2005. |
| Tay E., "Willow", "After a Class Reunion", "Jogging Before Dawn", "Hokkien", "Reading Wordsworth", "My Other", The Other Voices International Project. 2005, 16. |
| Tay E., Bradley Winterton. "Eddie Tay Captures Love's Many Essences". Review of Poetry, Taipei Times. 2005. |
| Tay E., Conducted a talk on writing poetry, Poet of the Month - HKU Writers' Series Forum. 2006. |
| Tay E., Organiser and reader, Bookstore poetry reading at Select Books with other poets . Singapore, 2005. |
| Tay E., Zheng Jianqing. "A Lover's Soliloquy". Review of Poetry, Renditions. 2005, 64: 117-119. |
| Researcher : Tong QS |
| Project Title: | China in the British mass media in the late 18th and early 19th centuries |
| Investigator(s): | Tong QS |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate the English idea of China formulated and articulated in popular British newspapers and magazines in the 18th and 19th centuries; to examine British popular representations of China and the social conditions that have informed such representations; to bring out at least one substantial and lengthy piece of scholarly and critical writing on the topic. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Tong Q.S., The Aesthetic of Imperial Ruins: The Elgins and John Bowring, Boundary2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture. Durham, Duke University Press, 2006, 23: 124 - 150. |
| Tong Q.S. and Zhou X.Y., The historicity of the genres and the conditions for the genesis of modern Chinese critical theory, 文学类別的歷史性和中國文論產生的条件, Open Times. 開放時代, 2005, no. 6: 65-75. |
| Tong Q.S., “From Athens to Beijing: The Elgin Marbles and the Ruins of Yuan Ming Yuan” , Ex/Change: A Publication for Centre for Cross Cultural Studies. Hong Kong, , City University of Hong Kong, 2005, No. 13: 10 – 15. |
| Researcher : Wolf HH |
| Project Title: | Cognitive nd corpus-based cultural approaches to world Englishes |
| Investigator(s): | Wolf HH, Polzenhagen F. |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Other Funding Scheme |
| Start Date: | 06/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate varieties of English with novel methodologies from cognitive and corpus linguistics. |
| Project Title: | Compiling an exclusive dictionary of West African English |
| Investigator(s): | Wolf HH, Lucko P., Peter L., Polzenhagen F. |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Other Funding Scheme |
| Start Date: | 07/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To compile the first exclusive dictionary of English in West Africa, both on the regional and the national level. |
| Project Title: | English in Africa: Cultural linguistic approaches |
| Investigator(s): | Wolf HH, Polzenhagen F |
| Department: | English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| Completion Date: | 12/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| To complete work on a book entitled Cultural linguistic approaches to World Englishes: A corpus-based cognitive linguistic analysis of the community model in African English as a paradigmatic study, together with my co-author Frank polzenhagen. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Bolton K... and Wolf H.H., Exploring the cultures of Asian Englishes: Evidence from corpus linguistics, Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE). The Multiple Expressions of World Englishes. 2005. |
| Wolf H.H., British Educational and Linguistic Policy in the Trusteeship Territories, First East Asian SGdS (Studienkreis Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft)-Colloquium on the History of Linguistics. 2005. |
| Wolf H.H., Dirven R., Cheng R., Yu N. and Smieja B., Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography (CogBib), Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2006, 6000. |
| Wolf H.H. and Polzenhagen F., Intercultural Communication In English – A Cognitive Linguistic Focus On Neglected Issues, LAUD Linguistic Agency. Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 2006, 683: 1-26. |
| Wolf H.H. and Polzenhagen F., Intercultural communication in English – A cognitive linguistic focus on neglected issues, 31st International LAUD Symposium. Intercultural Pragmatics. 2006. |
| Wolf H.H., Review of The Sociolinguistics of Borderlands: Two Nations, one Community. T. Omoniyi, Trenton, NJ. Africa World Press. Current Issues in Language Planning 6(1): 80-83., Current Issues in Language Planning. Exeter, Multilingual Matters, 2005, 6:1: 80-83. |
| Wolf H.H. and Igboanusi H., “Empowerment through English – a realistic view of the educational promotion of English in post-colonial contexts: The case of Nigeria, In: Pütz, Martin; Fishman, Joshua A. & Neff – van Aertselaer, JoAnne , Along The Routes To Power: Explorations Of The Empowerment Through Language (Contributions To The Sociology Of Language 92). Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2006, 333-356. |