SCHOOL OF ENGLISH



Researcher : Blumberg FL

Project Title:Literature and its Rivals
Investigator(s):Blumberg FL
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:Organization: Renaissance Society of America / Panel: Poetic Institutions; Institutions of Poetry from Petrarch to Milton
Investigator(s):Blumberg FL
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014
Completion Date:03/2014


List of Research Outputs

Blumberg F.L., Institutions of Poetry from Petrarch to Milton, Renaissance Society of America. 2014.


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 : Chen KHY

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
Completion Date:11/2013


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


Project Title:American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting; Folded arms and LV bags: Policing (Hong) “Kong Girl’s” desire in the new media
Investigator(s):Chen KHY
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2013


List of Research Outputs

Chen K.H.Y. and Kang A.M., Folded arms and LV bags: Policing (Hong) “Kong Girl’s” desire in the new media, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 2013.
Chen K.H.Y. and Carper G., Multilingual Hong Kong: A Sociolinguistic Case Study of Code-Switching (2nd Edition), USA: Films for the Humanities and Sciences. 2013.
Chu H.Y.E., Notari M. and Chen K.H.Y., A triangulated investigation of using wiki for project-based learning in different undergraduate disciplines , Joint International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym + OpenSym 2013). ACM, 2013. ACM.
Kang A.M. and Chen K.H.Y., Social Media as Community of Practice: Stereotype formation in Hong Kong, The 8th International Gender and Language Association Conference. 2014.
Kang A.M. and Chen K.H.Y., Stancetaking And The Hong Kong Girl In A Shifting Heterosexual Marketplace, In: Teun Van Dijk, Discourse & Society. USA, Sage, 2014, 23: 205-220.


Researcher : Chun M

List of Research Outputs

Chun M., Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language. (As translator), Columbia UP, 2014.
Chun M., The Theater of Consciousness in Conrad and James, In: Dr Keith Carabine; Mr Hugh Epstein, Professor Allan H. Simmons, , Joseph Conrad Society UK. 2013.


Researcher : Gan WCH

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


Project Title:Modernism Now; The Shanghai Essays of Emily Hahn
Investigator(s):Gan WCH
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2014




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:John Kneubuhl and Hawaiian Theatre
Investigator(s):Heim O
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:05/2014


List of Research Outputs

Heim O., Literary Citizenship in the Writing of Oceania: The Example of John Kneubuhl and Albert Wendt, In: Michael Kenneally, Rhona Richman-Kenneally, Wolfgang Zach, Literatures in English: New Ethical, Cultural and Transnational Perspectives. Tübingen, Stauffenburg, 2013, 135-154.


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


Project Title:"Searching the Academy": A Chinese Opera and the Rule of Law
Investigator(s):Ho EYL
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:02/2013
Completion Date:04/2014


List of Research Outputs

Ho E.Y.L., Literary Criticism, In: Constant Leung and Brian Street, Routledge Companion to English Studies. London, Routledge, 2014, 46-64.


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




Researcher : Hutton CM

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


Project Title:Transgender jurisprudence: self-classification and the law
Investigator(s):Hutton CM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Law, Literature, Language
Investigator(s):Hutton CM, Wan MMH
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Strategic Research Theme
Start Date:11/2013


List of Research Outputs

Hutton C.M., Reclaiming Socio-Cultural Memory: Creating a Reference Dictionary of Hong Kong Cantonese Slogans and Quotations, Australex, Endangered Words, and Signs of Revival, University of Adelaide, July 25-28, 2013. 2013.
Hutton C.M., Word Meaning and Legal Interpretation: An Introductory Guide. Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.


Researcher : Jaworski A

Project Title:Language as Image: The Sociolinguistics of Text Art
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2013
Completion Date:05/2014


Project Title:Sociolinguistic Symposium 20; Creative Silence -- paper in an invited panel
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Jaworski A., Commentary: Mobile language in mobile places, International Journal of Bilingualism. 2013.
Jaworski A. and Thurlow C., Gesture and movement in tourist spaces, In: Carey Jewitt , The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis. 2014.
Jaworski A. and Coupland N., Introduction: Perspectives on discourse analysis, In: Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland, The Discourse Reader. London and New York, Routledge, 2014.
Jaworski A., Metrolingual art: Multilingualism and heteroglossia, International Journal of Bilingualism. 2014, 18: 134-158.
Jaworski A. and Coupland N., In: Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland, The Discourse Reader. London and New York, Routledge, 2014.
Jaworski A. and Machin D., The Sociolinguistics of space and semiotic landscapes, SemiotiX. 2013, XN-10.
Jaworski A., Welcome: Synthetic personalization and commodification of sociability in the linguistic landscape of global tourism, In: Bernard Spolsky, Ofra Inbar, and Michal Tannenbaum, Challenges for Language Education and Policy: Making Space for People. London, Routledge, 2014.
Jaworski A., Xu Bing’s transformative art of language In It All Begins with Metamorphosis. Exhibition Catalogue Published on the Occasion of Xu Bing’s Exhibition at Asia Society Hong Kong, 8 May–31 August 2014, In: Yeewan Koon, Asia Society. Hong Kong, Asia Society, 2014.
Thurlow C. and Jaworski A., Visible–invisible: The social semiotics of labour in luxury tourism, In: Thom Birtchnell and Javier Caletrío, Elite Mobilities. Abingdon, Routledge, 2013, 176–193.


Researcher : Kang AM

List of Research Outputs

Chen K.H.Y. and Kang A.M., Folded arms and LV bags: Policing (Hong) “Kong Girl’s” desire in the new media, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 2013.
Kang A.M. and Chen K.H.Y., Social Media as Community of Practice: Stereotype formation in Hong Kong, The 8th International Gender and Language Association Conference. 2014.
Kang A.M. and Chen K.H.Y., Stancetaking And The Hong Kong Girl In A Shifting Heterosexual Marketplace, In: Teun Van Dijk, Discourse & Society. USA, Sage, 2014, 23: 205-220.


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:Challenger Unbound; The Challenger Tales and the End of the World
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2013
Completion Date:12/2013


Project Title:Orwell and Asia
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


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:Challenger Unbound; The Challenger Tales and the End of the World
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2013
Completion Date:12/2013


Project Title:Orwell and Asia
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


List of Research Outputs

Kerr D.W.F., Conan Doyle and the Spirits, Irrawaddy Literary Festival. Mandalay, Burma, 2014.
Kerr D.W.F., Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 273 pp.
Kerr D.W.F., Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice, Hong Kong University Library Book Talk. Hong Kong, 2014.
Kerr D.W.F., Conversation with Åke Edwardson, Winter, Murder and Gothenburg, Hong Kong International Literary Fesrtival. Hong Kong, 2013.
Kerr D.W.F., Orwell and Kipling: Global Visions, In: Henk Vynckier and John Rodden, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies . Taipei, Nationla Taiwan Normal University, 2014, 40:1: 35-50.
Kerr D.W.F., The Challenger Tales and the End of the World, Challenger Unbound. University College, London, 2013.
Kerr D.W.F., “Crime Fiction” with Duncan Jepson and Tom Vater; “Biography” with Caroline Moorehead and Wendy Law-Yone; and Conversation with Louis de Bernieres, Irrawaddy Literary Festival. Mandalay, Burma, 2014.


Researcher : Kuehn JC

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


Project Title:Victorian Hong Kong through the Traveller’s Lens
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2013


Project Title:11th Quadrennial International Conference on Comparative Literature; European Literature as the Unworking Drive in Literary Studies Today
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2013
Completion Date:12/2013


Project Title:The German Influence on Victorian Fiction: Idea, Form, Genre
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


List of Research Outputs

Kuehn J.C., 'Colonial Cosmopolitanism? Albert Smith and Rudyard Kipling in Hong Kong', School of English Seminar Series. 2014.
Kuehn J.C., 'Rev. of "Lao She in London", by Anne Witchard', In: Alain Le Pichon, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Hong Kong, 2014, 53: 318-320.
Kuehn J.C., A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf. New York and London, Routledge, 2014.
Kuehn J.C., Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China: Communities and Cultural Production, In: Kuehn, Julia; Louie, Kam; Pomfret, David, Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2013.
Kuehn J.C., European Literature as the Unworking Drive in Literary Studies Today, In: Comparative Literature Associate, R.O.C., After the World: New Possibilities for Comparative Literature. 11th Quadrennial International Conference of Comparative Literature. 2013.


Researcher : Leung JHC

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
Completion Date:05/2014


Project Title:Bilingualism and Legal Discourse in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Leung JHC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Language and the Law - Bridging the Gaps; Translation Equivalence as Legal Fiction
Investigator(s):Leung JHC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2013
Completion Date:12/2013


List of Research Outputs

Leung J.H.C., Editorial Board member , Journal of Language and Law /Linguagem e Direito. 2014.
Leung J.H.C., Achieving Justice in Bilingual Legal Systems, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University.. 2013.
Leung J.H.C., English Book Reviews Editor , International Journal for the Semiotics of Law . 2014.
Leung J.H.C., Harvard Yenching Visiting Scholarship, Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University. Harvard, 2013.
Leung J.H.C., Harvard Yenching Workshop Grant 2013-2014, Harvard Yenching Institute. 2014.
Leung J.H.C., Interpreting Law in a Multilingual World, Princeton University. 2013.
Leung J.H.C., Interpreting Multilingual Legislation, Brooklyn Law School.. 2014.
Leung J.H.C., Jurisprudential Musings in a Martial Arts Thriller: Peter Chan’s Wu Xia, Law and Humanities Colloquium: The Rule of Law and the Cultural Imaginary. 2013.
Leung J.H.C., Language rights and cultural identity in postcolonial Hong Kong. , Workshop on “The Emergence of Social Rights in East Asia”. Harvard University.. 2014.
Leung J.H.C., Power, Postcoloniality and the Pursuit of Justice: Lessons from Self-Representation in Hong Kong, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard University.. 2014.
Leung J.H.C. and Williams J.N., Prior Linguistic Knowledge Influences Implicit Language Learning, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 2013.
Leung J.H.C., Societal Multilingualism and Legal Order, Harvard Yenching Institute Workshop.. 2014.
Leung J.H.C., The Changing Contexts of Legal Bilingualism: Historical and Modern Practice, The Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association.. 2014.
Leung J.H.C., Translation Equivalence as Legal Fiction, Language and the Law – Bridging Gaps. Co-sponsored by IAFL & ALIDI.. 2013.
Leung J.H.C., Two Languages, One Law, In “Reframing Hong Kong: Challenges and Opportunities in the City, 2017 and Beyond” conference. Brown University. . 2014.


Researcher : Lim LLS

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


Project Title:A longitudinal study of Hong Kong kindergarten children’s English accents: Features and factors
Investigator(s):Lim LLS
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Ansaldo U. and Lim L.L.S., The lifecycle of Sri Lanka Malay, In: N. Thierberger, Language Documentation and Conservation. University of Hawai'i, 2014, 7: 100-113.
Lim L.L.S., The vital few: Agents of change in contact varieties of English in multilingual, global Asia, New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia Pacific 3 (NWAV-AP3). Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 2014.
Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish), In: Bernd Kortmann & Kerstin Lunkenheimer, The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English [eWAVE]. Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013.
Lim L.L.S., Endangerment, evolution and empowerment in globalising Asian ecologies: Where java and patois take their communities, 36th International LAUD Symposium. Endangerment of Languages across the Planet: The Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity and Globalisation. University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany. 2014.
Lim L.L.S., Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Award 2014 (Faculty of Arts), The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Arts. 2014.
Lim L.L.S., Positioning the Peranakans: Evolution and authenticity in the 21st century, Language and Society Special Interest Group, The University of Hong Kong. 2013.
Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Singlish structure dataset, In: Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath and Magnus Huber, Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013.
Lim L.L.S., Teaching Excellence Award Scheme 2013/14 shortlist, The University of Hong Kong. 2014.


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: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:Englishes Today: Theoretical and Methodological Issues; Investigating recent changes in New Englishes with Factiva®
Investigator(s):Noel D
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2013
Completion Date:10/2013


Project Title:Constructional attrition in a (contrastive) diachronic construction grammar perspective
Investigator(s):Noel D
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Colleman T. and Noel D., Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch: A case of polysemy copying, In: Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics (= Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243). Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2014, 213–236.
Noel D., Contrastive diachronic construction grammar, International Symposium on Contrastive Linguistics & Diachrony, Ghent University, Belgium, 27-28 February. 2014.
Noel D., van Rooy B. and van der Auwera J., Diachronic approaches to modality in World Englishes: Introduction to the Special Issue, Journal of English Linguistics. Sage, 2014, 42, 1: 3-6.
Noel D., Grammaticalization in diachronic construction grammar, In: Maria Angélica Furtado da Cunha, Edvaldo Balduíno Bispo, José Romerito Silva, Anais do IV Seminário Internacional do Grupo de Estudos Discurso & Gramática e XVII Seminário Nacional do Grupo de Estudos Discurso & Gramática [recurso eletrônico]: Teoria da gramaticalização e gramática de construções. Natal, RN, Brazil, UFRN, 2013, 5-12.
Noel D. and van der Auwera J., Investigating recent changes in New Englishes with Factiva®, Englishes Today: Theoretical and methodological issues, Vigo, Spain, 18-19 October. 2013.
Noel D., van Rooy B. and van der Auwera J., Special Issue: Diachronic Approaches to Modality in World Englishes, Journal of English Linguistics. Los Angeles, Sage, 2014, 42, 1.
van der Auwera J., Noel D. and Van linden A., Had better, ’d better and better: Diachronic and transatlantic variation, In: J. I. Marín Arrese, M. Carretero, J. Arús Hita & J. van der Auwera, English Modality: Core, Periphery and Evidentiality. Berlin, de Gruyter, 2013, 119-153.


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:An Annotated Historical-Analytical Dictionary of Integrational Linguistics
Investigator(s):Pable AM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2013


List of Research Outputs

Pable A.M., Who wants Swiss English?, In: Clive Uptown, English Today. 2013, 26-33.


Researcher : Richards PK

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:Rita Dove and the History of the Chorus
Investigator(s):Richards PK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:"A different fix on the stars": Aging in Lyric History
Investigator(s):Richards PK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:05/2014




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




Researcher : Tong QS

Project Title:Legacies of the Future: The Life and Work of Edward Said; The Question of Tibet and Orientalism
Investigator(s):Tong QS
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2013
Completion Date:11/2013




Researcher : Zayts OA

Project Title:A Discourse Analytic Study of Telegenetic counseling in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2011


Project Title:Exploring the role of culture in leadership discourse in Hong Kong workplaces
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2012
Completion Date:04/2014


Project Title:International Pragatics Association Conference; Negotiating the identities of allied healthcare professionals in the age of ‘superdiversity’ in healthcare/Exploring tensions between different levels of identity construction in the narratives of expatriates living and working in Hong Kong.
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2013
Completion Date:09/2013


Project Title:Vicarious Narratives in Talk at Work in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

AU YEUNG K.Y.G., Zayts O.A., Sarangi S.K. and Chung B.H.Y., With others and for others: Accounting for decisions about genetic testing in the clinic , 12th International Conference Communication, Medicine and Ethics. Lugano, Switzerland. 2014.
AU YEUNG K.Y.G., Zayts O.A., Sarangi S. and Chung B.H.Y., With others and for others: Accounting for decisions about genetic testing in the clinic, Joint Annual Scientific Meeting, The Hong Kong Paediatric Society and Hong Kong Paediatric Nurses Association Ltd, , 15 June 2014. 19.
Mok W.K.Y., Chu W.Y., Wong W.H.S., Ip P., Zayts O.A. and Chung B.H.Y., What should be said an what should not be said> - Perception of parents and caregivers of individuals with down syndrome in Hong Kong on sensitive language in Cantonese used in healthcare setting, Joint Annual Scientific Meeting 2013, The HK Paediatric Society and HK Paediatrics Nurses Association Ltd., QEH, 8 September 2013. 39.
Pilnick A. and Zayts O.A., ‘It’s just a likelihood’: Uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying ‘positive’ results in an antenatal screening clinic , In: Robert Dingwall, Thomas DeGloma, Patricia Hulme, Staci Newmahr and Dirk Vom Lehn, Symbolic Interaction. 2014, 37 (2): 187-208.
Schnurr S. and Zayts O.A., ‘What I say people do’. Stereotypes and realities about doing leadership in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong , The 12thAnnual Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication, Hong Kong . 2013.
Schnurr S. and Zayts O.A., “I can't remember them ever not doing what I tell them!” Negotiating ‘upward’ refusals in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong, Intercultural Pragmatics. 2013.
YAU H.Y.A. and Zayts O.A., "I don’t want to see my children suffering after birth": The ‘risk of knowing’ talk and decision-making in prenatal screening for Down syndrome in Hong Kong. , Health, Risk and Society. 2014, 16 (3): 259-276.
YAU H.Y.A. and Zayts O.A., Professional and parental responsibility in the management of risk in children affected by a genetic disorder, The 12thAnnual Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication . 2013.
YAU H.Y.A. and Zayts O.A., Risk talk and decision-making in prenatal screening in Hong Kong , 5th Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguists (HAAL) Conference, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, June 7, 2014.
YAU H.Y.A. and Zayts O.A., “We can’t let it happen”: Risk talk in telephone consultations between nurses and parents of infants with a genetic condition, 12th Interdisciplinary Conference: Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET). . 2014.
Zayts O.A. and Schnurr S., Decision-making about testing in intercultural genetic counselling encounters, 12th International Conference Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET). Lugano, Switzerland. 2014.
Zayts O.A., Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowship 2013-2014 , 2013.
Zayts O.A., Sarangi S., Thong M.K., Chung B.H.Y., Lo F.M., Kan S.Y.A., Lee M.H., Padilla C.D., Cutiongco-de la Paz E.M., Faradz M.H.S. and Wasant P., Genetic counseling/consultation in South-East Asia: A report from the workshop at the 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Human Genetics, Journal of Genetic Counseling . 2013, 22 (6): 917-924.
Zayts O.A. and Chung B.H.Y., Interdisciplinary collaboration between medical professionals and sociolinguists, Sciences of Learning Strategic Research Theme seminar, the University of Hong Kong . 2014.
Zayts O.A. and Schnurr S., Negotiating the identities of allied healthcare professionals in the age of ‘superdiversity’ in healthcare. , International Pragmatics Association Meeting. New Dehli, 8-13 September. 2013.
Zayts O.A. and Sarangi S., Treat him as a normal baby’: Paediatrician’s framing of parental responsibility as advice in the management of a genetic condition. , 11th Interdisciplinary Conference: Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET). Melbourne, Australia, 11-13 July . 2013.


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