SCHOOL OF ENGLISH
| Researcher : Bolton KR |
| Project Title: | The 7th International Association for World Englishes Conference (IAWE 2000) Chinese Englishes: From Canton Jargon to Global English |
| Investigator(s): | Bolton KR |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 12/2000 |
| 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: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 07/2002 |
| Researcher : Brown DBW |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Brown D.B.W., Opaque Rings of Earth: Landscape in Conrad's Asia and Africa. University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Researcher : Chan KW |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chan K.W. and Leung J.H.C., Implicit Learning of L2 Spanish Stress Rule, The 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. 2011. |
| Researcher : Chen KHY |
| Project Title: | Overseas returnees’ linguistic strategies in multilingual Hong Kong: a corpus and sociolinguistic analysis |
| Investigator(s): | Chen KHY |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 06/2009 |
| Completion Date: | 01/2012 |
| Project Title: | Shifting Continents, Shifting Identities: A sociolinguistic study of North America-Hong Kong transnational bilinguals |
| Investigator(s): | Chen KHY |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2010 |
| Completion Date: | 08/2011 |
| Project Title: | Rootless transnationals: A sociolinguistic ethnography of returned Indonesian Chinese's 60-year-journey from Indonesia to China and Hong Kong |
| Investigator(s): | Chen KHY |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 06/2011 |
| Project Title: | Coming home as strangers: A sociolinguistic ethnography of transnational bilinguals in Hong Kong |
| Investigator(s): | Chen KHY |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 09/2011 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chen K.H.Y. and Kang A.M., Co-organized panel: "Gender Ideologies in Public Discourses", 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium. 2011. |
| Chen K.H.Y., HKU Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award, HKU Faculty of Arts. 2012. |
| Chen K.H.Y., Styling bilinguals: How structurally distinctive code-switching styles index social groups in Hong Kong, In: Gerald Stell (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & FRIAS), Kofi Yakpo (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen & FRIAS), Code-switching at the crossroads between structural and socio-linguistic perspectives. 2012. |
| Researcher : Cheng PMG |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Cheng P.M.G., The Problem of China: British Writings on China in the 1920s. University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Researcher : Chiu WF |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chiu W.F., Tradition as Inheritance and Departure: Transformation, Survival and the Trickster in Love Medicine, China Men and Illywhacker. University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Researcher : Christe N |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Christe N., ""Worldwide education": a study of English in international schools", The Second Asian Conference on Language Learning. University of Osaka, Japan, 2012. |
| Christe N., "Discrepant norms: culture, ecology and indeterminacy in Victor Turner's anthropology of meaning", Postgraduate Workshop on Politics of Interpretations: (Con)Text and Power. The University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Christe N., "Do you speak global?" An Enquiry into the Theories of English as an International Language", English Linguistics Society of Japan 5th International Spring Forum. University of Kobe, Japan, 2012. |
| Christe N., "From language to cognition and identity: critical reflections", School of English Seminar Series. University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Christe N., "Language and identities - cultural dynamics in international institutions", SWELL 2012. The University of Lausanne, Switzerland. |
| Christe N., "Linguistic identity: The language-culture interaction in multilingual institutions", 35th International LAUD Symposium. The University of Koblentz-Landau, Germany, 2012. |
| Researcher : Chun M |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chun M., Summer Fellowship, National Humanities Center. 2012. |
| Researcher : Colleman T |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Colleman T. and Noel D., Corpus-based diachronic construction grammar at work: Tracing the history of Dutch deontic NCI patterns, 12th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester, U.K., 3-8 July. 2011. |
| Colleman T. and Noel D., The Dutch evidential NCI: A case of constructional attrition, Journal of Historical Pragmatics. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2012, 13, 1: 1-28. |
| Noel D. and Colleman T., The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammar, In: Karin Aijmer, Contrastive Pragmatics (= Benjamins Current Topics 30). Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2011, 143-180. |
| Researcher : Ding Y |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ding Y., Metaphors of SADNESS: Intraconceptual and Interconceptual Variation. University of Hong Kong, 2011. |
| Ding Y. and Noel D., Where was and is sadness? A corpus-based diachronic investigation of metaphorical containers of sadness in English , 35th International LAUD Symposium, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, 26-29 March. 2012. |
| Researcher : Gan WCH |
| Project Title: | Re-imagining China and the Chinese in British Middlebrow Writing and Culture, 1910-1939 |
| Investigator(s): | Gan WCH |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 03/2010 |
| Project Title: | The Popular Imagination and the Dawn of Modernism The unstable memsahib narrative in William Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil |
| Investigator(s): | Gan WCH |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 09/2011 |
| Completion Date: | 09/2011 |
| Project Title: | Middlebrow China: Imagining China in early 20th century Britain |
| Investigator(s): | Gan WCH |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2012 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Gan W.C.H., The unstable memsahib narrative in William Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil, The Popular Imagination and the Dawn of Modernism: Middlebrow Writing 1890-1930. 2011. |
| Researcher : Gisborne NS |
| Project Title: | 1st International Conference on Construction Grammar This Books as if might be a Construction: an Account of Quirky Complement Clauses |
| Investigator(s): | Gisborne NS |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 04/2001 |
| Researcher : Heim O |
| Project Title: | Pacific indigeneities and globalization: commodification, self-determination, and literary creativity |
| Investigator(s): | Heim O |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2010 |
| Project Title: | International Conference on Literatures in English: Ethical, Cultural, and Transnational Perspectives Literary Citizenship in the Writing of Oceania: The example of Samoan Literature |
| Investigator(s): | Heim O |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 07/2011 |
| Completion Date: | 07/2011 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Heim O., Breath as Metaphor of Sovereignty and Connectedness in Pacific Island Poetry, New Literatures Review. 2011, 47-48: 165-180. |
| Heim O., Breathing Space: Ecology and Sovereignty in Pacific Island Poetry, In: Prasad, Mohit, Dreadlocks Special Issue: Oceans, Islands and Skies. 2012, 6/7: 147-173. |
| Heim O., Literary Citizenship in the Writing of Oceania: The Example of Samoan Literature, 2011 Conference of the Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English: "Literatures in English: New Ethical, Cultural, and Transnational Perspectives" 10 - 13 July, 2011. |
| Heim O., Recalling Oceanic Communities: The Transnational Theatre of John Kneubuhl and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Oceanic Archives and Transnational American Studies, University of Hong Kong, 4-6 June 2012. |
| Researcher : Ho EYL |
| Project Title: | Anglophone Hong Kong Literature: Texts and Contexts |
| Investigator(s): | Ho EYL |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2012 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ho E.Y.L., Everyday Law In The Court Writing Of Sybille Bedford, In: Marco Wan, Reading The Legal Case: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Between Law And The Humanities. London and New York, Routledge, 2012, 61-79. |
| Ho E.Y.L., Literary Criticism, Pearl River Delta International Graduate Conference. University of Macao, 2012. |
| Researcher : Hung RYY |
| Project Title: | 31st Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Assoication Writing the Self as History: Chinese Memoirs and the Politics of Writing |
| Investigator(s): | Hung RYY |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 02/2010 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Tong Q.S. and Hung R.Y.Y., “Cultural Policy between the state and the market: regulation, creativity, and contradiction,”, International Journal of Cultural Policy. 2012, 18:3. |
| Researcher : Hutton CM |
| Project Title: | The languages of race 1789-1945: a historical-comparative analysis of racial classification |
| Investigator(s): | Hutton CM |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 09/2008 |
| Completion Date: | 02/2012 |
| Project Title: | Outstanding Researcher Award 2009-10 |
| Investigator(s): | Hutton CM |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Outstanding Researcher Award |
| Start Date: | 12/2010 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Hutton C.M., Salomon V Salomon (1897), Uncanny Personhood And The Jews, In: Marco Wan, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legal Case . London, Routledge, 2012, 29-64. |
| Hutton C.M., Too Obvious To Translate? Decorum And Chinese Varieties In A Hong Kong Magistrate’s Court. , The Second International Conference on Law, Translation and Culture, held at HK Polytechnic University, co-organized by Hong Kong Polytechnic University and City University London, May 31-June 2, 2012. |
| Hutton C.M., Vernacular Spaces And ‘non-places': Dynamics Of The Hong Kong Linguistic Landscape., In: Markus Messling, Dieter Läpple & Jürgen Trabant, Stadt und Urbanität. Berlin, Kulturtverlag Kadmos, 2011, 162-184. |
| Pable A.M. and Hutton C.M., In: Paul Cobley, Signs, Meaning and Experience. (draft accepted on condition of revisions). Mouton de Gruyter, 2012. |
| Researcher : Jia Q |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Jia Q., Envisioning Alternative Interiors: Space and Ecology in Margaret Atwood’s Short Stories and Oryx and Crake. University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Researcher : Kang AM |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chen K.H.Y. and Kang A.M., Co-organized panel: "Gender Ideologies in Public Discourses", 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium. 2011. |
| Researcher : Kerr D.W.F. |
| Project Title: | Research Output Prize |
| Investigator(s): | Kerr DWF |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Research Output Prize (in Faculty) |
| Start Date: | 12/2009 |
| Project Title: | CONRAD AND INVENTION |
| Investigator(s): | Kerr DWF |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2010 |
| Project Title: | Rudyard Kipling: An International Writer International Conference “Let us annex China!”: Visuality and Ventriloquism in the Far East |
| Investigator(s): | Kerr DWF |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 10/2011 |
| Completion Date: | 10/2011 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Researcher : Kerr DWF |
| Project Title: | Research Output Prize |
| Investigator(s): | Kerr DWF |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Research Output Prize (in Faculty) |
| Start Date: | 12/2009 |
| Project Title: | CONRAD AND INVENTION |
| Investigator(s): | Kerr DWF |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2010 |
| Project Title: | Rudyard Kipling: An International Writer International Conference “Let us annex China!”: Visuality and Ventriloquism in the Far East |
| Investigator(s): | Kerr DWF |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 10/2011 |
| Completion Date: | 10/2011 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Kerr D.W.F., "Into print: A research journey", Institute of Education, Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Kerr D.W.F., Conversation with Shehan Karunatilaka, Hong Kong International Literary Festival. 2011. |
| Kerr D.W.F., Deep China: A Travelling Metaphor, In: Sin, C. Y., Dongxifang Yianjiu. ＜東西方研究＞, Shanghai, Guji Chubanshe, 2011, 591-600. |
| Kerr D.W.F., George Orwell. Segovia, Spain, Sergio Martinez, 2011, 143 pp. |
| Kerr D.W.F., Leung Ping-Kwan's Amblings: A Review of the Right-hand Pages, In: Tammy Ho Lai Ming, Jeff Zroback, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. 2011, Fourth Anniversary Issue: online. |
| Kerr D.W.F., Living with George Orwell, The Orwell Society Newsletter. 2012, 1: 11-13. |
| Kerr D.W.F., “Going About: Conrad’s Progress in A Personal Record”, Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Postcolonialism. University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2011. |
| Kerr D.W.F., “‘Let us annex China!’Visuality and Ventriloquism in the Far East”: , Rudyard Kipling: An International Writer. Institute of English Studies, London U, 2011. |
| Researcher : Kuehn JC |
| Project Title: | The Female Exotic: Sensationalism, Empire and Gender in Womens Writing 1880-1920' |
| Investigator(s): | Kuehn JC |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2009 |
| Completion Date: | 06/2012 |
| Project Title: | Trash or Triumph: Pearl S. Buck's Chinese Novels |
| Investigator(s): | Kuehn JC |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 01/2010 |
| Completion Date: | 12/2012 |
| Project Title: | Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2009-10 |
| Investigator(s): | Kuehn JC |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Outstanding Young Researcher Award |
| Start Date: | 12/2010 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Kuehn J.C., 'Exotic Harem Paintings: Gender, Documentation, and Imagination', Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 2011, 32:2: 31-63. |
| Kuehn J.C., 'The Power of Fiduciary Terms: Marie Corelli’s Populist-Sublime Aesthetics’, Australasian Victorian Studies Association, Griffith University, Brisbane. 2012. |
| Kuehn J.C., Passion Impossible: Sex Abroad, The Sheik and Other Stories, In: Greta Depledge, Jane Jordan, Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Popular Culture. 3rd Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, London. 2011. |
| Kuehn J.C., ‘Marie Corelli (1855-1924): “Favoritin der ungebildeten Masse”’, Centre for British Studies, University of Bamberg. 2012. |
| Kuehn J.C., ‘Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley’s Orientalist Aestheticism’. , In: Catherine Delyfer, Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens . Presses Universitaires de la Mediterranee, 2011, 74: 169-95. |
| Researcher : Lam NSA |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Lam N.S.A., Implicit Learning of Tonal Rules in Thai as a Second Language. University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Lam N.S.A. and Leung J.H.C., Implicit learning of tonal rules in Thai as a second language, Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone conference. 2011. |
| Researcher : Leung JHC |
| Project Title: | Individual Variables in the Development of Insight |
| Investigator(s): | Leung JHC, Ho CW |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 04/2010 |
| Completion Date: | 04/2012 |
| Project Title: | The Implicit Learning of Logographic Form-Meaning Connections |
| Investigator(s): | Leung JHC |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 05/2012 |
| Project Title: | 2012 International Conference on Law and Society The Judge as a Godfather, Scholar, Educator and Scolding Parent: Judicial Discourse in Cantonese Courtrooms in Hong Kong |
| Investigator(s): | Leung JHC |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 06/2012 |
| Completion Date: | 06/2012 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chan K.W. and Leung J.H.C., Implicit Learning of L2 Spanish Stress Rule, The 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. 2011. |
| Lam N.S.A. and Leung J.H.C., Implicit learning of tonal rules in Thai as a second language, Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone conference. 2011. |
| Leung J.H.C. and Williams J.N., Constraints on Implicit Learning of Grammatical Form-Meaning Connections, Language Learning. Wiley, 2012, 62:2: 634-662. |
| Leung J.H.C. and Wan M.M.H., Constructing the Meaning of 'Obscenity': an Empirical Investigation and an Experimentalist Account, In: Anne Wagner, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. Springer, 2012, 25: 415-430. |
| Leung J.H.C., Discourse on Equal Authenticity in Bilingual Jurisdictions, The First International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse (LLD). 2011. |
| Leung J.H.C., Intertextuality in Equal Authenticity Discourse, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2012. |
| Leung J.H.C., Judicial discourse in Cantonese courtrooms in Hong Kong, The Second International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse: Multiculturalism, Multimodality and Multidimensionality. 2012. |
| Leung J.H.C., Letter vs. Spirit of the Law and Literal vs. Free Translation, The Second International Conference on Law, Translation and Culture. 2012. |
| Leung J.H.C., On the Edge of Reason: Law at the Borderline, In: Wan, M., Reading The Legal Case: Cross Currents between Law and the Humanities. Routledge, 2012. |
| Leung J.H.C., Resolving Ambiguity in a Multilingual Legal System, The 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. 2011. |
| Leung J.H.C., Statutory Interpretation in Multilingual Jurisdictions: Typology and Trends, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 2012. |
| Wan M.M.H. and Leung J.H.C., 'A Tale of Many Newspapers: Perversion, Criminality, and Scopophilia in Hong Kong's Reportage on the Edison Chen Scandal' , In: Anne Wagner and Richard Sherwin, Law, Culture and Visual Studies . 2012. |
| Xia X. and Leung J.H.C., Category typicality effects in foreign language acquisition: The role of L1-based typicality in L2 semantic organization, In: Tizón-Couto, David, Tizón-Couto, Beatriz, Pastor-Gómez , Iria and Rodriguez-Puente, Paula, New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research II: Studies in Language Variation, Meaning and Learning. Bern, Peter Lang, 2012. |
| Xia X. and Leung J.H.C., L1-based prototypicality effects in L2 vocabulary learning, 35th International LAUD symposium. 2012. |
| Yeung W.L. and Leung J.H.C., Removing linguistic barriers to justice: a study of official reference texts for unrepresented litigants, The Second International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse: Multiculturalism, Multimodality and Multidimensionality. 2012. |
| Researcher : Lim LLS |
| Project Title: | Exploring the Peranakans as a China-West Locus in Southeast Asia: The Continuing Evolution of Their Linguistic Repertoire |
| Investigator(s): | Lim LLS |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 04/2010 |
| Project Title: | The ecology and evolution of Asian Englishes |
| Investigator(s): | Lim LLS |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2012 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Areal features of English in Asia? , 17th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes. Melbourne, Australia, 2011. |
| Lim L.L.S. and Gisborne N., Co-editor, In: Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne, The Typology of Asian Englishes. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2011, Benjamins Current Topics 33. |
| Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish), In: Kortmann, Bernd and Lunkenheimer, Kerstin, The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English [eWAVE]. Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2011. |
| Lim L.L.S., Revisiting English prosody: (Some) New Englishes as tone languages?, In: Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne, The Typology of Asian Englishes. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2011, Benjamins Current Topics 33: 97-118. |
| Lim L.L.S. and Gisborne N., The typology of Asian Englishes: Setting the agenda, In: Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne, The Typology of Asian Englishes. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2011, Benjamins Current Topics 33: 1-10. |
| Researcher : Lim SGL |
| Project Title: | Modern Language Association Convention Teaching Chicano/a and Chinese American Ethnopoetics: Comparative Traditions |
| Investigator(s): | Lim SGL |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 12/2000 |
| Researcher : Noel D |
| Project Title: | 3rd Late Modern English Conference The entrenchment of the nominative and infinitive construction in Late Modern English |
| Investigator(s): | Noel D |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 08/2007 |
| Project Title: | The evolution of the modals and quasi-modals in Asian Englishes |
| Investigator(s): | Noel D |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 06/2010 |
| Completion Date: | 05/2012 |
| Project Title: | Evidential constructions in English and Chinese academic texts: a corpus-driven approach |
| Investigator(s): | Noel D |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2010 |
| Completion Date: | 08/2011 |
| Project Title: | Evidential constructions in English and Chinese: a bottom-up contrastive study |
| Investigator(s): | Noel D |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2011 |
| Project Title: | 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea The modal BE BOUND TO constructions and the dynamic English constructicon |
| Investigator(s): | Noel D |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 09/2011 |
| Completion Date: | 09/2011 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Colleman T. and Noel D., Corpus-based diachronic construction grammar at work: Tracing the history of Dutch deontic NCI patterns, 12th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester, U.K., 3-8 July. 2011. |
| Colleman T. and Noel D., The Dutch evidential NCI: A case of constructional attrition, Journal of Historical Pragmatics. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2012, 13, 1: 1-28. |
| Ding Y. and Noel D., Where was and is sadness? A corpus-based diachronic investigation of metaphorical containers of sadness in English , 35th International LAUD Symposium, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, 26-29 March. 2012. |
| Noel D., GRF Incentive Award 2011-12 (HKU 751311H), University Research Committee. 2011. |
| Noel D., Member of the Editorial Board, French Review of English Linguistics . 2011. |
| Noel D., The modal BE BOUND TO constructions and the dynamic English constructicon, 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain, 8-11 September. 2011. |
| Noel D. and Colleman T., The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammar, In: Karin Aijmer, Contrastive Pragmatics (= Benjamins Current Topics 30). Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2011, 143-180. |
| van der Auwera J., Noel D. and De Wit A., The diverging NEED (TO)'s of Asian Englishes, In: Marianne Hundt & Ulrike Gut, Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes (=Varieties of English Around the World, G43). Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2012, 55-76. |
| Researcher : Ooi VCH |
| Project Title: | 4th 'English in Southeast Asia' Conference - Developing Multiliteracies in Southeast Asia How to Have your Disney and Eat it Too |
| Investigator(s): | Ooi VCH |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 11/1999 |
| Researcher : Pable AM |
| Project Title: | An Annotated Historical Dictionary of Integrational Linguistics and Integrationism |
| Investigator(s): | Pable AM |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2011 |
| Project Title: | Integrationism 2.0 The Terra Firma Of Personal Linguistic Experience |
| Investigator(s): | Pable AM |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 07/2011 |
| Completion Date: | 07/2011 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Bade D. and Pable A.M., Signs unfounded and confounded. A reply to Søren Lund., In: Jacob Mey, RASK. Internationalt tidsskrift for sprog og kommunikation.. 2012, 35 (1): 43-85. |
| Pable A.M., An integrational response to Searlean realism: how language does not relate to consciousness, In: Marcel Danesi, Semiotica. 2012, 35. |
| Pable A.M., Deconstructing Rortian constructivism: against the ubiquity of language., Postgraduate Workshop 'The Politics of Interpretation: (Con)text and Power', co-organized by the Institute of Romance Studies, University of Potsdam and the School of English, the University of Hong Kong. 14-15 June, 2012.. 2012. |
| Pable A.M., English in Hongkong: responsibility and ideology, keynote speech, AMERICAN GEOLINGUISTICS CONFERENCE, New York City. 2011. |
| Pable A.M., Insights into integrational linguistics: theories and applications., Nanjing University, School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing, China. 2012. |
| Pable A.M., Is language ubiquitous? On the construction of knowledge and reality., Sun Yat-sen University, School of Foreign Languages, Guangzhou, China.. 2011. |
| Pable A.M., Language, responsibility, (ex)communication., Keynote address. American Society of Geolinguistics: Language Under Controls. Practices and Policies Affecting Freedom of Speech. September 23-24, 2011. BARUCH College, CUNY, Manhattan, New York City. . 2011. |
| Pable A.M. and Hutton C.M., In: Paul Cobley, Signs, Meaning and Experience. (draft accepted on condition of revisions). Mouton de Gruyter, 2012. |
| Pable A.M., The terra firma of personal linguistic experience, Integrationism 2.0, University of Birmingham. 2011. |
| Pable A.M., Towards a new semiotics of landmark knowledge, In: Paul Cobley, Social Semiotics. 2012, 22 (3): 259-274. |
| Researcher : Richards PK |
| Project Title: | New Formalism, Genre Studies, and Practices of Anticipation: How Listeners Listen |
| Investigator(s): | Richards PK |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2008 |
| Project Title: | An International Poetry Conference 2010 The Sacred and the Panegyric Roots of American Poetry |
| Investigator(s): | Richards PK |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 05/2010 |
| Project Title: | The Emergence of Lyric Biography |
| Investigator(s): | Richards PK |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2010 |
| Completion Date: | 08/2011 |
| Project Title: | The Salzburg Global Seminar: American Studies Symposium to Honor Emory Elliott, "American Literary History in a New Key" Transnationalism, Irruption, and Lyric History |
| Investigator(s): | Richards PK |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 09/2010 |
| Project Title: | The Creation of Character |
| Investigator(s): | Richards PK |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 02/2011 |
| Project Title: | The Lyric Sequence |
| Investigator(s): | Richards PK |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 05/2012 |
| Researcher : Slethaug GE |
| Project Title: | International Congress for American Studies 2001 Red, White, (Black) and Blue The Blues and Acculturation in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues |
| Investigator(s): | Slethaug GE |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 01/2001 |
| Researcher : Smethurst P |
| Project Title: | Excursions: critical approaches to travel writing |
| Investigator(s): | Smethurst P |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Low Budget High Impact Programme |
| Start Date: | 11/2001 |
| Project Title: | The Bicycle in Asia |
| Investigator(s): | Smethurst P |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 09/2009 |
| Completion Date: | 08/2011 |
| Project Title: | Bicycle: A Cultural Object |
| Investigator(s): | Smethurst P |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2010 |
| Completion Date: | 08/2011 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Smethurst P., ‘Peripheral Vision, Landscape, and Nation-Building in Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Scotland, 1769-72’, In: Benjamin Colbert, Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland . Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 13-30. |
| Researcher : Sun L |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Sun L., Degree adverbs in Hong Kong and Singapore English: A corpus-based investigation. University of Hong Kong, 2011. |
| Researcher : Sze TT |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Sze T.T., Mapping Neverland: A Reading of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan texts as pastoral, myth and romance. University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Researcher : Tong QS |
| Project Title: | China in the British mass media in the late 18th and early 19th centuries |
| Investigator(s): | Tong QS |
| Department: | School of English |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Tong Q.S. and Hung R.Y.Y., “Cultural Policy between the state and the market: regulation, creativity, and contradiction,”, International Journal of Cultural Policy. 2012, 18:3. |
| Researcher : Tsang MY |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Tsang M.Y., A study on the construction of identity in the blogging world among Hong Kong adolescents. University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Researcher : Tse HLK |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Tse H.L.K., The Family Saga in Women’s Writing Between the Wars. University of Hong Kong, 2012. |
| Researcher : Tse YN |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Tse Y.N., "Written in Nanking: The politics of feminine details in The Mother", An International Symposium on Pearl S. Buck and her Nanking Years. School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, 2012. |
| Researcher : Webber NP |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Webber N.P., "Within language, through language, beyond language: the portmanteau-word neologism as agent and emblem of contingent change", Journal of South Texas English Studies 3.1. 2011. |
| Researcher : Wolf HH |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Cummings P.J. and Wolf H.H., A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbor. 香港英語詞典, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011. |
| Researcher : Xia X |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Xia X. and Leung J.H.C., Category typicality effects in foreign language acquisition: The role of L1-based typicality in L2 semantic organization, In: Tizón-Couto, David, Tizón-Couto, Beatriz, Pastor-Gómez , Iria and Rodriguez-Puente, Paula, New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research II: Studies in Language Variation, Meaning and Learning. Bern, Peter Lang, 2012. |
| Xia X. and Leung J.H.C., L1-based prototypicality effects in L2 vocabulary learning, 35th International LAUD symposium. 2012. |
| Researcher : Xu D |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Xu D., "Going Native: Honesty in the Romantic Formation of Aboriginality", 2012 Biennial Conference of the Australian Children's Literature Association for Research. Canberra ACT, 2012. |
| Researcher : Xu X |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Xu X., "Depoliticizing Poetry: The Reception of W.H. Auden in 20th Century China", The 15th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference. Harvard University, Cambridge, M.A., U.S.A., 2012. |
| Researcher : Yeung WL |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Yeung W.L. and Leung J.H.C., Removing linguistic barriers to justice: a study of official reference texts for unrepresented litigants, The Second International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse: Multiculturalism, Multimodality and Multidimensionality. 2012. |
| Researcher : Zhang R |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Zhang R., "Identity, Culture, and Language: Putting SLA back in Context?", The Second Asian Conference on Language Learning. Osaka, Japan, 2012. |
| Zhang R., "Interpreting Lev Vygotsky's Marxist Psychology in Post-Revolution Russia", Postgraduate Workshop on Politics of Interpretation: (Con)Text and Power. The University of Hong Kong, 2012. |