Researcher
: Ashcroft WD |
List of Research Outputs |
Ashcroft
W.D., "Transnation and the Fate of
Nation", Public Address, |
Ashcroft
W.D., Critical Utopias, Textual Practice.
Brighton, |
Ashcroft
W.D., Exile and Representation: Edward Said
as Public Intellectual, In: Ned Curthoys and Debjani Ganguli, Edward Said:
the Legacy of a Public Intellectual . Melbourne, |
Ashcroft
W.D., Globalism, Utopia and the Transnation, Locating
Transnationalism(s) International Conference . |
Ashcroft
W.D., In: Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and
Helen Tiffin, Post-colonial Studies: the Key Concepts. |
Ashcroft
W.D., The Emperor’s New Clothes, In:
Vijayasree, C., Meenakshi Mukherjee, Harish Trivedi and Vijay Kumar , Nation
in Imagination: Essays on Nationalism, Sub-Nationalisms and Narration . |
Ashcroft
W.D., Utopianism in Post-Colonial Writing, Postcolonial
Studies Colloquium. |
Ashcroft W.D., “Border Free” EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) March 25-29 2008, EACLALS Conference. 2008. |
Ashcroft
W.D., “Ernst Bloch and the Sacred”, Theory
Faith and Culture Conference, |
Ashcroft
W.D., “Is Australian Literature
Post-Colonial?” EASA (European Association for Studies of |
Ashcroft
W.D., “Towards the Literary Transnation”
Re-Routing Postcolonialism Conference, |
Ashcroft
W.D., “Transnation and Globalization” |
Researcher
: Baxter KI |
List of Research Outputs |
Baxter
K.I., Review: Reading, Publishing and the
Formation of Literary Taste in |
Baxter
K.I., ‘New Black Fiction of East Asia’, Theorizing
Blackness Conference, |
Project Title: |
The study of
English in Hong Kong: the international corpus of English project in |
Investigator(s): |
|
Department: |
|
Source(s) of Funding: |
Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
Start Date: |
07/2002 |
Abstract: |
The project attempts to advance the |
Researcher
: Chen KHY |
List of Research Outputs |
Chen
K.H.Y., Positioning and repositioning:
Linguistic practices and identity negotiation of overseas returning
bilinguals in |
Researcher
: Ding Y |
List of Research Outputs |
Ding Y., Noel D. and Wolf H.H., Lost in metaphor and metonymy translation? A corpus-based study of the translation of metaphors and metonymies of FEAR between English and Chinese, Seventh International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM7), University of Extremadura, Spain, 29-31 May. 2008. |
Researcher
: Gan WCH |
Project Title: |
The pursuit of privacy: modernity and femininity in early twentieth century British women's writing |
Investigator(s): |
Gan WCH |
Department: |
|
Source(s) of Funding: |
Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
Start Date: |
01/2007 |
Abstract: |
This project is concerned with women's desire for privacy and by extension the desire to be modern as negotiated through texts written by women in early twentieth century Britain. Examining a range of modernist and non-modernist texts, I intend to study the female pursuit and appropriation of privacy and the ways this was perceived to be modern. (1) To explore the emancipatory and progressive potential of spatial privacy for women. (2) To examine the discourses of British women writers on the subject of privacy: Are there female forms of privacy? What are the responses of women to a lack of privacy? (3) To study the implications of this desire for privacy on women's relations to modernity and femininity. |
List of Research Outputs |
Gan
W.C.H., ‘Tropical Hong Kong: Narratives of
Absence and Presence in |
Researcher
: Heim O |
List of Research Outputs |
Heim O., Fall and Response: Alan Duff's Shameful Autoethnography, Postcolonial Text. 2007, 3.4: 1-17. |
Heim O., Global Indigeneity, incongruity, return: toward a definition of world indigenous literature, Try Freedom: Rewriting Rights in/through Postcolonial Cultures. EACLALS triennial conference, Venice, 25-29 March 2008. |
Heim O., The Interplay of the Local and the Global in Witi Ihimaera's Revisions, Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 2007, 43.3: 310-322. |
Researcher
: Ho EYL |
Project Title: |
Theories of the novel in Britain |
Investigator(s): |
Ho EYL |
Department: |
|
Source(s) of Funding: |
Louis Cha Fund |
Start Date: |
01/2000 |
Abstract: |
(1) The theory of the novel in |
Project Title: |
A critical study
of anglophone |
Investigator(s): |
Ho EYL |
Department: |
|
Source(s) of Funding: |
Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
Start Date: |
01/2007 |
Abstract: |
(1) Develop a database on published anglophone Hong Kong Literature. (2) Update referencing of Key theoretical material. (3) Develop and refine conceptual questions. (4) Select and organize texts from the database for critical analyses. (5) Develop draft plan for critical book. (6) Write draft chapters of critical book. (7) Prepare book proposal and draft chapters for submission to publishers. |
List of Research Outputs |
Ho E.Y.L., "Anglophone Hong Kong Literature: What is to be done?", Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image, Faculty of Arts, HKU. 2007. |
Ho
E.Y.L., "Childhood and Cultural Memory
in Anglophone Hong Kong Fiction: Martin Booth's *Gweilo* and Po Wah Lam's
*The Locust Hunter*", In: A. Robert Lee, |
Ho
E.Y.L., "Cosmpolitanism in the
Borderlands: Travel Writing, the Cold War, and 1950s |
Ho
E.Y.L., "Good Writing in English", Meeting
of Minds Series, HKU, |
Ho
E.Y.L., "Travelling |
Researcher
: Hutton CM |
Project Title: |
Race: imagining human diversity 1750-1945 |
Investigator(s): |
Hutton CM |
Department: |
|
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 |
List of Research Outputs |
Hutton
C.M. and Harris R., Definition In Theory
And Practice: Language, Lexicography And The Law. |
Hutton
C.M. and Wolf
H.H., Guest editors, In: Chris Hutton and Hans-Georg Wolf, Language Sciences, Special Issue: The History of
Linguistics . |
Hutton
C.M., Review of |
Researcher
: Kang MA |
Project Title: |
English as a
Lingua Franca in |
Investigator(s): |
Kang MA, Zayts OA, Tang MHY |
Department: |
|
Source(s) of Funding: |
Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
Start Date: |
03/2007 |
Abstract: |
Different aspects of doctor-patient
communication have been widely studied by both medical professionals and
linguists. Researchers in medical communication have pursued various
objectives, such as the study of the interactional patterns of doctor-patient
talk, power and authority in the doctor-patient relationship, and
socio-cultural aspects of doctor-patient communication. The research has been
based on data drawn from different cultures, although the majority of work
has been conducted using data drawn from native English communication.
Significantly less research has been carried out in the area of English as a
Lingua Franca in a medical setting, and on medical communication in an Asian
context. English as a lingua franca refers to the English language used by
non-native speakers on a regular basis as a means of international
communication. It incorporates some features of standard English that are
essential for successful communication and also some non-standard features
that make communication easier for non-native speakers. Current research in
communication between non-native speakers mainly focuses on developing
language skills of medical personnel, non-standard features of communication
and miscommunications that occurred due to the lower English language
proficiency of speakers (Maher, 1990; Firth, 1996). The main objective of
this research is to analyze the regional variety of English as a Lingua Franca
in Hong Kong with a particular emphasis on medical communication, using
established conversation analytic techniques.The non-standard forms of
English which are used for international communication in Hong Kong have also
been very widely studied (Bolton & Luke, 1999; 2002; 2003; Kirkpatrick,
2002; Moody, 1997; Hung, 2000; Bruce, 1996; Chor-shing Li, 1994), but the
topic of medical communication has not been paid much attention. Despite
similarities of usage in different contexts, we believe there will be some
differences in the medical usage of English as a Lingua Franca, which will
include discussing particular medical subject matters, using medical and
paramedical terminology, and employing specific syntactic structures (e.g.
different types of questions in the history-taking part of the consultation).
This study will allow us to identify the specific features of English as a
Lingua Franca in the medical setting in |
List of Research Outputs |
Kang
M.A. and Zayts
O.A., Recipient design in pursuing informed choice, |
Zayts O.A. and Kang M.A., English as a lingua franca in prenatal genetic counseling in Hong Kong , Discourse, Communication, and the Enterprise IV Conference; Nottingham, UK . 2007. |
Zayts
O.A. and Kang M.A.,
Informed Choice in Prenatal Genetic Counseling Sessions, 2008 Health
Communication Series: Enhancing Communication in Health Care; |
Zayts
O.A. and Kang M.A., Medical
discourse in multicultural contexts: meeting doctor and patient concerns in
secondary care,” a panel organized for the 10th International Pragmatics
Association Meeting; |
Zayts O.A. and Kang M.A., Patient-centered Prenatal Genetic Counseling: Patient Compliance With Informed Choice, 10th International Pragmatics Association Meeting; Göteborg, Sweden. 2007. |
Zayts
O.A. and Kang M.A.,
Patient-centered prenatal genetic counseling: patient compliance with
informed choice, 10th International Pragmatics Association Meeting; |
Zayts O.A. and Kang M.A., Preliminary Enquiries in Non-native Interactions in Prenatal Genetic Counselling: A Conversation Analytic Perspective , 9th International Association for Language Awareness Conference . 2008. |
Researcher
: Kerr DWF |
Project Title: |
Conan Doyle and modernity |
Investigator(s): |
Kerr DWF |
Department: |
|
Source(s) of Funding: |
Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
Start Date: |
01/2007 |
Abstract: |
To reseach and write a monograph on the topic of Conan Doyle and Modernity |
List of Research Outputs |
Kerr
D.W.F. and Kuehn
J.C., "A Century of Travels in |
Kerr D.W.F., "Cross-Cultural Studies in Hong Kong", 10th Round Table on English Major Education in Comprehensive Universities in China, Nanjing University. 2007. |
Kerr
D.W.F., "Deep |
Kerr
D.W.F., "Locating Louise Ho", Hong
Kong Culture: Word and Image, |
Kerr
D.W.F. and Kuehn
J.C., 'A Century of Travels in |
Kerr
D.W.F. and Kuehn
J.C., 'Journeys in |
Kerr
D.W.F., Conversation with Anne Enright: “The
Gathering: An Anne Enright Gala Event”, Man |
Kerr
D.W.F., Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire
in British Writing. Hong Kong, |
Kerr
D.W.F., ‘Really Telling Lies: Conrad, Conan
Doyle, and Invention’, 33rd International Conference of the Joseph Conrad
Society, |
Kerr D.W.F., ‘Review of Brian Shelmerdine, British Representations of the Spanish Civil War’,, Literature and History. 2008, 17:1: 100-101. |
Kerr
D.W.F., “Stealing Victory?: The Strange Case
of Conrad and Buchan”, Conradiana. |
Researcher
: Kuehn JC |
Project Title: |
A Century of
Travels in |
Investigator(s): |
Kuehn JC, Kerr DWF |
Department: |
|
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 |
Project Title: |
Exoticism in the Popular Anglo-Indian Women's Novel, 1880-1920 |
Investigator(s): |
Kuehn JC |
Department: |
|
Source(s) of Funding: |
Small Project Funding |
Start Date: |
09/2006 |
Abstract: |
This project in literary scholarship is an important attempt to reconsider the relationship between 'the West' and 'the East', using the framework of the exotic to understand the plots, motifs, and characters in popular Anglo-Indian women's romances. The texts examined are primarily popular works of fiction, published in the period between 1880 and 1920, many of which have not been discussed before. The objective of this research project is to contribute a new reading of popular late-Victorian novels set 'elsewhere', which would conventionally be analysed either through the frameworks of colonial discourse analysis or through the popular paradigm. Both approaches have merits but quickly close down discussion as they preempt the ideological nature of the discussed texts, on the one hand, or their literary inferiority, on the other. The framework of the exotic - traced through historical and theoretical texts, such as various psychoanalytical theoretical texts on 'desire' and particlarly texts on the exotic, like Victor Segalen's 1907 study 'On Exoticism' - is an original and productive way of opening up a discussion of these neglected texts. |
List of Research Outputs |
Kerr
D.W.F. and Kuehn J.C.,
"A Century of Travels in |
Kerr
D.W.F. and Kuehn J.C., 'A
Century of Travels in |
Kerr
D.W.F. and Kuehn J.C.,
'Journeys in |
Kuehn
J.C., "Exoticism as 'Travelling Theory':
A Postcolonial Reconsideration", International Conference on
East-West Studies, |
Kuehn
J.C., "Romantic Novelists", In:
Susan Mumm, The |
Kuehn
J.C., ' |
Kuehn
J.C., 'Exoticism as System: Theories of
Alterity', The University of |
Kuehn J.C., 'Gendering the Empire: Women's Orientalist Paintings', In: , 'Politics and Propaganda: Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association'. 2008. |
Kuehn
J.C., 'Only Women should go to |
Kuehn
J.C., Exoticism in Anglo-Indian Women's
Fiction, 1880-1920, In: Sue Thomas, Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange,
Performance. |
Kuehn
J.C., The Sorrows of Satan, by Marie Corelli.
Edited with and Introduction and Notes by Julia Kuehn., |
Researcher
: Leung JHC |
List of Research Outputs |
Leung
J.H.C., Implicit Learning of Form-Meaning
Connections, Department of English, The |
Leung
J.H.C., Implicit Learning of Form-Meaning
Connections, Doctoral Dissertation, |
Researcher
: Luke KK |
Project Title: |
Linguistic form compression: an investigation of second-order encoding in language |
Investigator(s): |
Luke KK, |
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: |
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 |
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: |
Doctor-Patient
Interaction in |
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 |
Researcher
: Matthews SJ |
Project Title: |
Parsing principles and constituent order in Cantonese |
Investigator(s): |
Matthews SJ, Francis EJ, Perry C |
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: |
Towards a Grammar of Chinese Pidgin English |
Investigator(s): |
Matthews SJ, Smith GPS |
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. |
Researcher
: Noel D |
Project Title: |
The semantics of syntax: corpus investigations of clausal complement constructions |
Investigator(s): |
Noel D |
Department: |
|
Source(s) of Funding: |
Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
Start Date: |
01/2007 |
Abstract: |
1. Aim 1.1. The problem After a few
decades of syntax with as little meaning as possible in the third quarter of
the 20th century, the view is gaining ground that literally everything in
syntax is meaningful and that the linguist’s task is to elucidate the meaning
of form within a — so-called “functional”, as opposed to “formal” —
theoretical model that coherently links up syntax and semantics. Models like
Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar have acquired a fair amount of
respectability and both models are amassing a growing flock of followers.
Another very popular paradigm in which the relation between syntax and
semantics is of central importance is grammaticalisation theory. This drastic
change of perspective — from syntax without semantics to no syntax without
semantics — did not entail an equally drastic change in the way linguists
argue their cases and did not therefore make linguistics much more of an
empirical science than it used to be. Meanings are posited, and supported
with argumentative evidence, but rarely proven empirically. The literature on
the dative alternation is a case in point. There it is often claimed that
nominal complements present their referents as somehow more “central”, or more
“prominent”, than prepositional complements (Langacker 1986, Goldberg 1995,
Pinker 1989, Dik 1997, Van Valin & LaPolla 1997, etc.). What exactly is
meant by “prominence” usually remains unclear. The literature on the topic is
usually also characterised by a type of argumentation one could qualify as
unempirical: typically, only invented examples are used, together with
untested grammaticality judgements. In the area of grammaticalisation theory,
as well, the semantic changes that go together with morphosyntactic changes
are not always proven in a meticulous fashion. Though cognitive linguistics
has recently seen a sharp increase in the use of experiments, sadly most
linguists possess neither the training nor the infrastructure to set up and
carry out experiments that would pass muster in experimental psychology
departments. Other sources will therefore have to be tapped to provide claims
about the semantic import of syntactic forms with a sound empirical basis.
1.2. Two ways out Though large computerized monolingual corpora of texts are
currently widely available, their huge potential for semantic research
remains underexploited. True, corpora first and foremost lend themselves to
observing (and counting) forms (they do not automatically reveal the meanings
of these forms), but they can nevertheless increase the empiricalness of
semantic research in at least two ways. First, they can ensure that claims
about meanings are based on data that are more real, less selective, and less
open to suggestion than are decontextualized intuition-based data. A
sufficiently large corpus of English texts, for instance, makes it possible
to refute the claim, persistent in English linguistics, that perception verbs
turn into cognition verbs when combined with an accusative and infinitive or
a finite complement (see Noël |
List of Research Outputs |
Colleman T. and Noel D., 'Gezegd worden + te-Inf. Een verdwenen evidentiële constructie.' [The disappearance of the Dutch evidential BE SAID TO construction.], Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium, 26 April. 2008. |
Ding Y., Noel D. and Wolf H.H., Lost in metaphor and metonymy translation? A corpus-based study of the translation of metaphors and metonymies of FEAR between English and Chinese, Seventh International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM7), University of Extremadura, Spain, 29-31 May. 2008. |
Noel
D., Diachronic construction grammar and
grammaticalization theory, Functions of Language. |
Noel D., Evidentiality in English and Chinese academic texts: corpus-driven approaches, HKU School of English CERG Review Workshop. 2007. |
Noel D., Is economics a science? Findings and estimates in scientific and economic texts, In: Katja Pelsmaekers & Craig Rollo , Economically speaking. Antwerpen, Garant, 2007, 75-90. |
Noel D., The English evidential nominative and infinitive construction, 30. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Bamberg, Germany, 27-29 February. 2008. |
Noel D., The development of the English ACI and NCI constructions, Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp, Belgium. 2008. |
Noel D. and Colleman T., The distinct development of the English and Dutch 'nominative and infinitive' constructions, 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 8-13 July. 2007. |
Noel D., The entrenchment of the nominative and infinitive construction in Late Modern English, 3rd Late Modern English Conference, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 29 August-1 September. 2007. |
Noel
D., The evidential BE SAID TO construction in
academic texts: Findings and estimates in the natural sciences and in
economics, 2007 International Conference on ESP, Southern Taiwan |
Noel
D., Verb valency patterns, constructions and
grammaticalization, In: Thomas Herbst & Katrin Goetz-Votteler, Valency: Theoretical, descriptive and cognitive issues.
|
Project Title: |
Distancing English and Speech and Declaration |
Investigator(s): |
|
Department: |
|
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 |
Project Title: |
New Approaches to the Choral and Cross-Cultural Studies |
Investigator(s): |
|
Department: |
|
Source(s) of Funding: |
Small Project Funding |
Start Date: |
11/2006 |
Abstract: |
Objectives The objective of this proposal
is to gather and complete the research necessary for phase III of my second
book, a research project on oral and choral approaches in written texts. The
ultimate cross-cultural focus of this research begins with theoretical
inquiries into translation from written to oral, and especially choral,
discourse. Much research has already been done on transcriptions and
transmissions of oral to written texts. Research that focuses on oral
practices in written texts, however, is just beginning. At the MLA, for
example, a new subgroup on auditory practices was developed in the direction
of understanding better aural/oral modes in written texts. My research
focuses on a traditionally embedded oral pretext, the chorus, in both drama
and lyric, along with new approaches to understanding this less-well
documented phenomenon as it migrates into cross-cultural texts and discourse.
What W. R. Johnson calls the choral situation, “we and world,” demands new
hearing when every “I” is a speaker who, as Sharon Cameron explain, “says ‘I’
and yet is pluralistic; at the same time, “I” of a modern chorus demands
survival inside verbal paradox, relative to visual representation. When acts
of writing reposition such traditions of “I” and “we” as closer on the page
than they are on a visual stage, questions of displacement, translation, and
cross-cultural studies move to the foreground. Phase I of my research looked
at the history of oral and choral modes, beginning with medieval interludes,
liturgical plays, folk drama, and pagan crossovers. I then focused on the
period from approximately 1400-1550, a period of evolving experimental and
vernacular lyric. This research questioned static assumptions of adaptations
of the choral from its longstanding connection to tragic paradigms. I am
particularly interested in the question of direct address in this period, the
breakdown of allegory, the fall of lyric drama, and the rise of what has been
called “segmentability” of language after the invention of printing in 1476.
Charles of Orleans, Thomas Hoccleve, and James I are important in this
period. Phase II carried out research involving the relatively unexplored
ground between speeches and declaration, following lines of development from
the dance of the chorus to its book-conscious evocations after 1476. Ideas of
analogy, crucial to medieval allegory, of course erode; what is less clear is
how that erosion, and the transformation of choral paradigms, affected acts
and pacts of speech-making, including declarations. This phase, therefore,
included theories and applications of translation, including texts by John
Dryden (on translating Ovid), Walter Benjamin, Paul Valéry, George Steiner,
Roman Jakobson, Willis Barnstone, Harold Bloom, D.S. Carne-Ross, and C. R.
Mac Intyre. Phase III Phase III will now focus on theoretical and discursive
links between choral history and translation, connections crucial to
contemporary understandings of cross-cultural currents, including those in |
List of Research Outputs |
Richards P.K., Distancing English, OSUP, 2008. |
Richards
P.K., Editor, Yuan Yang: A Journal of |
Richards P.K., Lightly Separate, Finishing Line Press, 2008. |
Richards
P.K., Nomination, Lightly Separate, In: |
Richards
P.K., Poetics and Framing, In: Eric Athenot, Poets
and Theory Conference, |
Richards P.K., The Splendour of Writing Poems, Curriculum Development Institute. Curriculum Development Institute, 2007. |
Researcher
: Rowe C |
Project Title: |
Sociolinguistic variation in Tyneside English dialect semanteme [DO] |
Investigator(s): |
Rowe C, Wolf HH |
Department: |
|
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 |
Rowe C., Building code: Development, maintenance, and change in a private language. , American Speech. 2007, 82.3: 235-61. |
Rowe
C., The sociolinguistic distribution of
lexical shibboleths in a Northeast British English dialect: The status of
DO+/- NOT in Tyneside English. , International Conference on the
Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE). |
Schnurr S. and Rowe C., Email practices in HK workplaces. An interplay between macro- and micro-level influences, Sociolinguistic Symposium 17. 2008. |
Researcher
: Schnurr S |
Project Title: |
Leadership
Communication in |
Investigator(s): |
Schnurr S |
Department: |
Arts Faculty |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
Start Date: |
05/2007 |
Abstract: |
The aim of the proposed research is to
identify the communication strategies used by effective leaders in an
organization in |
List of Research Outputs |
Holmes J., Schnurr S. and Marra M., Leadership and communication: Evidence of a workplace culture change, Discourse & Communication. Sage, 2007, 1: 433-451. |
Schnurr S., Decision made - let's move on! Negotiating gender and professional identity in HK workplaces, Johan Wolfgang-Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt, Germany. 2008. |
Schnurr S. and Rowe C., Email practices in HK workplaces. An interplay between macro- and micro-level influences, Sociolinguistic Symposium 17. 2008. |
Schnurr S., Enacting organizational culture: Some insights through leaders' use of humour, DICOEN IV (Discourse, Communication and the Entreprise). 2007. |
Schnurr S. and Holmes J., Humour and masculinity at work, 10th conference of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). 2007. |
Schnurr
S., Marra M. and Holmes J., Impoliteness as a
means of contesting power relations in the workplace, In: Derek Bousfield
& Miriam Locher, Impoliteness in Language. |
Schnurr
S., Leadership and gender in HK workplaces.
How women negotiate their gender and their professional identity, |
Schnurr
S. and Chan A., Politeness and leadership
discourse at work: A case study of |
Researcher
: Smethurst P |
Project Title: |
Excursions: critical approaches to travel writing |
Investigator(s): |
Smethurst P |
Department: |
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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., ' |
Smethurst P., Review of 'Return to Postmodernism: Theory-Travel Writing-Autobiography' ed. Klaus Stierstorfer, In: Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing. Isle of Harris, The White Horse Press, 2007, 11: 205-208. |
Researcher
: Tong QS |
Project Title: |
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Investigator(s): |
Tong QS |
Department: |
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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., 世界文学、人文精神和文学研究的责职, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities & Social
Sciences, |
Tong
Q.S., The Western Idea of the Chinese
Language (a series of four lectures), |
Researcher
: Wolf HH |
Project Title: |
Cognitive nd corpus-based cultural approaches to world Englishes |
Investigator(s): |
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Department: |
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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): |
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Department: |
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Source(s) of Funding: |
Other Funding Scheme |
Start Date: |
07/2003 |
Abstract: |
To compile the first exclusive dictionary
of English in |
List of Research Outputs |
Ding Y., Noel D. and Wolf H.H., Lost in metaphor and metonymy translation? A corpus-based study of the translation of metaphors and metonymies of FEAR between English and Chinese, Seventh International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM7), University of Extremadura, Spain, 29-31 May. 2008. |
Dirven R., Wolf H.H. and Polzenhagen F.,
Cognitive Linguistics And Cultural Studies , In: Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert
Cuyckens, The |
Dirven R., Polzenhagen F. and Wolf H.H., Cognitive Linguistics,
Ideology, and Critical Discourse Analysis, In: Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert
Cuyckens, The |
Hutton
C.M. and Wolf H.H., Guest
editors, In: Chris Hutton and Hans-Georg Wolf, Language Sciences, Special Issue: The History of
Linguistics . |
Peter L. and Wolf H.H., Compiling an exclusive
dictionary of English: A report on work in progress., In: Augustin Simo
Bobda, Explorations into Language Use in |
Wolf
H.H. and Xia
X., Basic-level salience In second language acquisition: A study Of English
vocabulary learning by Chinese adults, 32nd International Laud Symposium.
Cognitive Approaches to second/foreign language processing: Theory and
pedagogy. University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus |
Wolf
H.H., British and French language and
educational policies in the Mandate and |
Xia X.
and Wolf H.H., Basic level
salience in second language acquisition: A study of English vocabulary
learning by Chinese adults, LAUD Linguistic Agency. |
Researcher
: Xia X |
List of Research Outputs |
Wolf
H.H. and Xia X.,
Basic-level salience In second language acquisition: A study Of English
vocabulary learning by Chinese adults, 32nd International Laud Symposium.
Cognitive Approaches to second/foreign language processing: Theory and
pedagogy. University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus |
Xia
X. and Wolf
H.H., Basic level salience in second language acquisition: A study of
English vocabulary learning by Chinese adults, LAUD Linguistic Agency.
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