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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:Working Words: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Heresy in Early Modernity
Investigator(s):Blumberg FL
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting; The Bounds of Renaissance Prose Satire
Investigator(s):Blumberg FL
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2017


List of Research Outputs

Blumberg F.L., Obscenity and Marginality, Law and Humanities. Taylor & Francis, 2017, Volume 11, No. 1: 7-23.
Blumberg F.L., The Bounds of Renaissance Prose Satire, Renaissance Society of America. 2017.


Researcher : Bolander BWR

Project Title:English and Transnationalism: South Asian Communities in Hong Kong, India and Pakistan
Investigator(s):Bolander BWR
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2016


List of Research Outputs

Bolander B.W.R., Between ‘methodological nationalism’ and ‘transnationalism’: English and the transnational Ismaili community , Department of English Language and Literature Seminar Series, National University of Singapore (NUS). 2016.
Bolander B.W.R., Bolander, Brook. 2017. Scaling value: transnationalism and the Aga Khan’s English as a “second language” policy. , In: O. Garcia; H. Kelly-Holmes, Language Policy. Springer, 2017.
Bolander B.W.R., English Language Policy as Ideology in Multilingual Khorog, Tajikistan, In: Elisabeth Barakos and Johann W. Unger, Discursive Approaches to Language Policy. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 253-274.
Bolander B.W.R., English and the transnational Ismaili Muslim community: Identity, the Aga Khan, and infrastructure, In: Jenny Cheshire, Language in Society. Cambridge, 2016, 45(4).


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: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


Project Title:Indonesian Chinese as rootless transnationals: A sociolinguistic ethnography of their 60-year journey from Indonesia to China and Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Chen KHY
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2015


List of Research Outputs

Chen K.H.Y., Language ideologies and identities in Hong Kong, Invited talk at the Center for Language Education, South University of Science & Technology of China, China. 2017.
Chu S.K.W., Zhang Y., Chen K.H.Y., Chan C.K., Lee W.Y., Zhou E. and Lau W., The effectiveness of wikis for project-based learning in different disciplines in higher education, In: C.P. Lim, V.P. Dennen, The Internet and Higher Education. The Netherlands, Elsevier, 2017, 33: 49-60.


Researcher : DU B

List of Research Outputs

DU B., African English speakers in Chinese criminal courts: The issue of mutual understanding in communication with interpreters, INCOLAS/HKU Sociolinguistics Seminar, Copenhagen, Demark. 2016.
DU B., Staging Justice: Courtroom Semiotics and the Judicial Ideology in China, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. 2016, 29: 595-614.
DU B., The bilingual trial: Access to interpreting, communication and participation in Chinese criminal courts, 2016.


Researcher : Gan WCH

Project Title:Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference; Visualising China: Stereotypes, Myth-Making, and Cross-cultural Strategies, 1840-1940
Investigator(s):Gan WCH
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2017
Completion Date:03/2017


List of Research Outputs

Gan W.C.H., From Peril to Pity: The Transformations of Mr. Wu, Adaptation. OUP, 2016.
Gan W.C.H., I Like the Chinese!’: Thorbecke and Schiff's Peking Studies', Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference. 2017.
Gan W.C.H., ‘Puckish Protesting in the Umbrella Movement.’, International Journal of Cultural Studies. Sage, 2017, 20: 162-176.


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 : HAO T

List of Research Outputs

HAO T., Finalist of the Annual Young Scholar Award for the Best Paper in Chinese Linguistics. 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), 2016.
HAO T., The contribution of construction in Chinese sentence comprehension: The motivation of construction learning for both L1 and L2 Chinese speakers, 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), Beijing Language and Culture University, China. 2016.


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


Project Title:John Kneubuhl and Pacific Theatre
Investigator(s):Heim O
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:International Small Island Cultures Conference; Pacific Ghost Stories: John Kneubuhl and Oral History
Investigator(s):Heim O
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2017
Completion Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Heim O., Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2015-16, Faculty of Arts, HKU. 2017.
Heim O., Introduction: Chinese and Hong Kong Shakespeares, In: Leung Che Miriam Lau and Wing Bo Anna Tso, Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students: The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays. Singapore, Springer, 2016, xix-xxii.
Heim O., Island logic and the decolonization of the Pacific, All that Glitters Is Not Gold: Critiques of Globalization in New Zealand and the Pacific, international conference, Regent's University, London, July 8-9, 2016. 2016.
Heim O., Member of editorial board, Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. 2016.
Heim O., Pacific Ghost Stories: John Kneubuhl and Oral History, 13th International Small Island Cultures Conference. 2017.
Heim O., The arrival of Oceania: Ending Extractivism, Politics of Enactment, and Pacific Island Representations of a Good Life, School of English seminar series, HKU. 2017.


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: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


Project Title:Defining Fundamental Concepts: The Legal Personhood of Animals
Investigator(s):Hutton CM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme
Start Date:06/2015
Completion Date:10/2016


List of Research Outputs

Hutton C.M., Bedrock concepts and integrational theory: selves, animals and legal persons, In: Adrian Pablé, Critical Humanist Perspectives: The Integrational Turn in Philosophy of Language and Communication. London, Routledge, 2017, 28-44.
Hutton C.M., Law, the classification of mundane entities and ordinary meaning, Annual Conference of the China Association of Forensic Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, November 26-27. 2016.
Hutton C.M., Legal sex, self-classification and gender self-determination., Law and Humanities. Taylor & Francis, 2017, 11: 64-81.
Hutton C.M., Racial ideology as elite discourse: Nordicism and the visual in an age of mass culture, Social Semiotics. Taylor & Francis, 2017, 27: 335-347.
Hutton C.M., The self and the 'monkey selfie': law, integrationism and the nature of the first-order/second-order distinction, Language Sciences. Elsevier, 2017, 61: 93-103.
Hutton C.M., The tangle of colonial modernity: Hong Kong as a distinct linguistic and conceptual space within the global common law, Law Text Culture. University of Wollongong, 2017, 18: 221-248.


Researcher : Jaworski A

Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2014-15
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2014


Project Title:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards 2015-16
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2015


Project Title:Word as Image: The Sociolinguistics of Art
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:Language Artists Talk: The Metadiscourses of Art
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:International Symposium on Bilingualism 11; Beyond multilingualism: Art, spectacle and asemic writing
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2017
Completion Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Jaworski A. and Thurlow C., . Introducing elite discourse: The rhetorics of status, privilege, and power, Social Semiotics. Abingdon, Taylor & Francis, 2017, 27: 243–254.
Jaworski A., Epilogue: The moiré effect and the art of assemblage, Social Semiotics. Abingdon, Taylor & Francis, 2017, 27: 532–543.
Jaworski A. and Thurlow C., Guest special issue editor, In: Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski, Social Semiotics. 3, 2017, 27.
Jaworski A. and Thurlow C., Mediatizing the ‘super-rich’, normalizing privilege, Social Semiotics. Abingdon, Taylor & Francis, 2017, 27: 273–287.
Jaworski A., Television as art: Art on television., In: Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland and Jacob Thøgersen, Style, Identity and Mediation: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media. . New York, Oxford University Press, 2017, 165–195.
Jaworski A., Visual silence and non-normative sexualities: Art, transduction and performance, Gender and Language. 2016, 10: 433–454.
Lou J. and Jaworski A., Itineraries of protest signage, Journal of Language and Politics. 2016, 15: 609-642.


Researcher : Kerr D.W.F.

Project Title:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award 2001-2002
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award
Start Date:06/2002


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:Orwell and Asia
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014
Completion Date:12/2016


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Kerr DWF

Project Title:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award 2001-2002
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award
Start Date:06/2002


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:Orwell and Asia
Investigator(s):Kerr DWF
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014
Completion Date:12/2016


List of Research Outputs

Chan J.M.M. and Kerr D.W.F., Academic Freedom, Political Interference and Political Accountability, Journal of Academic Freedom. Washington DC, Association of American University Professors, 2016, 7: 1-21.
Kerr D.W.F., George Orwell's Conrad, George Orwell Studies. Bury St Edmunds, Abramis Academic, 2016, 1: 21-36.
Kerr D.W.F., Holmes into Challenger: The Dark Investigator, In: Sam Naidu, Sherlock Holmes in Context. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 167-185.
Kerr D.W.F., Law and Race in George Orwell, Law & Literature. 2016, 1-18.


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: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


Project Title:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships 2016-17 (Second Round)
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:North American Victorian Studies Association/ Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference ; ‘Charles Dickens and the Tradition of the Bildungsroman’
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2017
Completion Date:05/2017


List of Research Outputs

Kuehn J.C., '"There is a smell of opium in the air": China, the Dickenses and the Second Opium War', In: Josephine McDonagh, Briony Wickes, The Opium Workshop. 2016.
Kuehn J.C., Charles Dickens and the Tradition of the Bildungsroman, 2017.
Kuehn J.C., Realism’s Connections: George Eliot’s and Fanny Lewald’s Poetics’. , In: William Baker, Nancy Henry, George Eliot and George Henry Lewes Studies . 2016, 68.2: 95-115.


Researcher : LIU Y

List of Research Outputs

LIU Y., Scottish Universities International Summer School, University of Edinburgh, UK. 2016.


Researcher : LUO Z

List of Research Outputs

LUO Z., Direct-to-consumer online advertising of genetic testing in Hong Kong: A discourse analytic study of company strategies, 14th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. 2016.


Researcher : Leung JHC

Project Title:Implicit learning of Phonotactics in a Tone language
Investigator(s):Leung JHC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:03/2015


Project Title:Interdisciplinary Conference on Hate speech: Definitions, Interpretations and Practices; Communicating and Excommunicating Hate
Investigator(s):Leung JHC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2017
Completion Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Durant A. and Leung J.H.C., Pragmatics in legal interpretation, In: Barron, A., Grundy, P. and Gu, Y., Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. 2017.
Leung J.H.C., Communicating and Excommunicating Hate, Interdisciplinary Conference on Hate speech: Definitions, Interpretations and Practices (IHDIP). 2017.
Leung J.H.C., Dialoguing with the State, WEST OF EVERYTHING: New Media, Visual Culture and Law. 2016.
Leung J.H.C., Jurilinguistics and identity, 11th annual Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics. 2017.
Leung J.H.C., Multilingual Legal Education, Workshop on Global Legal Education. New York University, Abu Dhabi. . 2017.
Leung J.H.C., Publicity Stunts, Power Play, and Information Warfare in Mediatised Public Confessions, Law and Humanities . 2017, 11(1): 82-101.
Leung J.H.C., Reclaiming Humanity in a Globalized Legal Environment, Yale Center Beijing workshop on law and humanities. 2017.
Leung J.H.C., Tensions and Goals in Legal Communication, Learning the language of the law: An interdisciplinary symposium for legal and language practitioners. UGC-funded project ‘Legal English in Hong Kong’.. 2016.
Leung J.H.C., Universitas 21 Fellowships 2016-2017 , Universitas 21. 2017.
YEUNG W.L. and Leung J.H.C., “You have to teach the judge what to do”: Semiotic gaps between unrepresented litigants and the common law, Semiotica . 2017, 216: 363-382.


Researcher : Lim LLS

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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Lim L.L.S., Tea time [Online title: Tea and etymology: where your ‘cuppa char’ came from], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., #TrendingNow: Asian Englishes in an age of reimagining, 40th National Conference of the Japan Association for Asian Englishes & 20th anniversary of the Japan Association for Asian Englishes. Nagoya, Japan, Chukyo University, 2017.
Lim L.L.S., Amah’s the word [Online title: Where Hong Kong got ‘amah’, old word for maidservant, from], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, , Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Chitty chat [Online title: How lewd military slang gave rise to ‘chitty bang bangs’], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Chop ‘n change [Online title: Where does the word ‘chop’ come from?], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Fear and wording [Online title: Where the word kiasu came from and how it spread], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post., Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Junk trip [Online title: Where did the word ‘junk’ come from?], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Migrant voices [Online title: Migration: why global language rights matter], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Minority report [Online title: New hope for Hong Kong’s vanishing languages and cultures?], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Periphery in the age of reimagining: Vernaculars and vitality in urban and online communities [Keynote lecture], Language Contact in Asia and the Pacific (LCAP2016). University of Macau, Macau S.A.R.. University of Macau, Macau S.A.R., 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Periphery in the age of reimagining: Vernaculars and vitality in urban and online communities, Language Contact in Asia and the Pacific. Macau, China, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Periphery in the age of reimagining: Vernaculars and vitality in urban multicultural Asia, 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11): Bilingualism, Multilingualism, and the New Speaker. University of Limerick, Ireland, 2017.
Lim L.L.S., Rice cracking [Online version: Why ‘have you eaten?’ means ‘how are you?’ in Hong Kong]. 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post., Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Speak now [Online title: Cantonese dominates, but Hongkongers speak myriad languages – old and new], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Squids in [Online title: Singapore embraces multilingualism five decades after independence], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Talking tuk-tuk [Online title: How the term ‘tuk-tuk’ has travelled the world], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2017.
Lim L.L.S., The art of losing: Beyond java, patois and postvernacular vitality – Repositioning the periphery in global Asian ecologies, In: Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz, Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of Documentation, Policy, and Language Rights. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2016, IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 42: 283-312.
Lim L.L.S., War of words [Online title: War of words erupts as guanxi, ‘Chinese helicopter’ enter Oxford dictionary], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. 2016.
Lim L.L.S., Well, oil be blowed! [Online title:How 2014 Hong Kong protests popularised the phrase ‘add oil’], 'Language Matters' column, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 2016.
Wong K.S.R., Lim L.L.S. and Perry C., How language contact affects dual language learners phonological development, Language Contact in Asia and the Pacific (LCAP 2016), University of Macau, Macau S.A.R.. University of Macau, Macau S.A.R., 2016.


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 : MILITELLO JMW

List of Research Outputs

MILITELLO J.M.W., Digital literacy and job interview performance in the elite global finance firms: The case of Hong Kong students, InCoLaS/HKU PhD Summer School, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2016.


Researcher : NARAYAN NG

List of Research Outputs

NARAYAN N.G., Character and community (-building): Ethics and Policing in the Novels of Thackeray, Gaskell, and Collins, 1840-1880, 2017.


Researcher : NOGUES CD

List of Research Outputs

NOGUES C.D., Poetry Fellow, The Frost Place Conference on Poetry, The Frost Place, Franconia, NH, USA, 2016.


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: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
Completion Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs

Noel D., A radically usage-based account of the development of the English “epistemic” BE BOUND TO construction, Temps, aspect, modalité, évidentialité: perspectives comparative, cognitive, théorique, appliquée - 17 et 18 novembre 2016 - Université Paris Diderot. 2016.
Noel D., Constructicons are bound to change: Constructional change in a radically usage-based perspective, 4th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 4), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 18-21 September 2016. .
Noel D., Editorial Board member, Functions of Language. Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.
Noel D., For a radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar, Belgian Journal of Linguistics. Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, 30: 39-53.
Noel D., Radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar and the development of non-deontic BE BOUND TO, School of English Seminar Series. 2016.


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:Henry Sweet Colloquium for the History of Linguistic ideas; Croce, Harris and the indeterminacy of the sign
Investigator(s):Pable AM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2017
Completion Date:04/2017


List of Research Outputs

Pable A.M., Communication theory and integrational semiology. The constitutive metamodel revisited’, In: Johan Siebers, Empedocles. European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication. London, Intellect, 2017, 8 (1): 55-67.
Pable A.M., In: Pablé, Adrian , Critical Humanist Perspectives. The Integrational Turn in Philosophy of Language and Communication.. London, Routledge, 2017, 8.
Pable A.M., Introduction: humanism, existentialism and integrational semiology, In: Pablé, Adrian, Critical Humanist Perspectives. The Integrational Turn in Philosophy of Language and Communication. Routledge, 2017, 8: 3-9.
Pable A.M., Secular humanist discourses on rationality. , In: Pablé, Adrian , Critical Humanist Perspectives. The Integrational Turn in Philosophy of Language and Communication. London, Routledge, 2017, 8: 13-27.


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:The Panegyric in Early American Cultural Settlement
Investigator(s):Richards PK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


Project Title:ESSE; Biography, The Historical Lyric, and Rita Dove
Investigator(s):Richards PK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2016
Completion Date:08/2016




Researcher : Shipman HE

List of Research Outputs

Burns B., Shipman H.E., Kirwan C., Davies S. and Clarke A., Parents’ Experiences of Array Comparative Genomic Hybridisation Tests, When Requested by a Paediatrician., Association of Genetic Nurses and Counsellors Spring Meeting, Leeds, UK. 2017, Academic poster.
Murray A., Tischkowitz M., Shipman H.E. and Plaskocinska I., Patient Information Award - Special Award 2017 - Screening - Winner Patient Information Award - Special Award 2017 - Ethics - Runner Up, British Medical Association. 2016.
Shipman H.E., Plaskocinska I., Drummond J., Thompson E., Buchanan V., Newcombe B., Hodgkin C., Barter E., Ridley P., Ng R., Miller S., Dann A., Licence V., Webb H., Tan L.T., Daly M., Ayers S., Rufford B., Earl H., Parkinson C., Duncan T., Jimenez-Linan M., Sagoo G., Abbs S., Hulbert-Williams N., Pharoah P., Crawford R., Brenton J. and Tischkowitz M., New paradigms for BRCA1/BRCA2 testing in women with ovarian cancer: results of the Genetic Testing in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (GTEOC) study, Journal of Medical Genetics. 2016, 53: 655-661.
Shipman H.E., Zayts O.A. and Tischkowitz M., “Well, we can talk about it. We can joke about it, which is nice”: Indirectness in talk about end-of-life involving women with ovarian cancer, JCECC Conference on Collaboration in Creating Compassionate Holistic End- of-Life Care for the Future. 2017.
Whyte S., Green A., McAllister M. and Shipman H.E., Family Communication in Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions in Ireland, Journal of Genetic Counseling. 2016, 25: 1317-1326.


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 : VANDERTOP CS

List of Research Outputs

VANDERTOP C.S., Concrete jungles: modernism, colonial culture and the built environment in early twentieth-century literature, 2017.


Researcher : Valdez JR

Project Title:A Hybrid Realism: Yiddish Storytelling and Jewish Identity in Late-Victorian Literature
Investigator(s):Valdez JR
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:11/2015


Project Title:Mediating Englishness: Newspapers and National Identity in the Victorian Novel
Investigator(s):Valdez JR
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships 2016-17 (Second Round)
Investigator(s):Valdez JR
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference; The Sensation novel and Newspaper Time
Investigator(s):Valdez JR
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs

Valdez J.R., 'Anthony Trollope’s “Newspaper Scribblers”: Forms of Public Opinion', University of Manchester, English Seminar Series. 2017.
Valdez J.R., Newspaper Time and the Victorian Novel, Mono-Poly: A SYMPOSIUM, at King's College, . 2017.
Valdez J.R., The Form of News, or Anthony Trollope’s Journalists, University of Cambridge, Research Group for Nineteenth-Century Studies. 2017.
Valdez J.R., The Sensation Novel and Newspaper Time, North American Victorian Studies Association, Phoenix, Arizona. 2016.
Valdez J.R., “‘In Pitiless Print’: Representing Character from Newspaper to Novel” , In: NA, Supernumerary of North American Victorian Studies Association, Florence, Italy. 2017.


Researcher : WANG J

List of Research Outputs

WANG J., Negotiation of norms of appropriateness in online Guanxi practices, INCOLAS/HKU PhD Summer School, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2016.


Researcher : WONG MTP

List of Research Outputs

WONG M.T.P., Triad discourse in three social domains: A critical discourse analysis, 2017.


Researcher : YEUNG WL

List of Research Outputs

YEUNG W.L. and Leung J.H.C., “You have to teach the judge what to do”: Semiotic gaps between unrepresented litigants and the common law, Semiotica . 2017, 216: 363-382.


Researcher : Zayts OA

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


Project Title:International Pragmatics Association Conference (IPrA); Looking nice for my husband is a full-time job’. Humour as a means to challenge hegemonic femininities/Vicarious Narratives of Professionals in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2015


Project Title:The Toil of Trailing Spouses in Hong Kong: A Discourse Analytic Study
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:Communicating Genetic Risk and Uncertainty across an Individual's Lifespan vis-à-vis Family: A Discourse Analytic Study of Genetic Counselling in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zayts OA, Chau AKT, Chen KHY, Chung BHY, Lee CP, Tang MHY, Yung TC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs

Schnurr S., Zayts O.A. and Hopkins C., Challenging hegemonic femininities. The discourse of trailing spouses in Hong Kong., Language in Society. Cambridge University Press, 2016, 45(4): 533-555.
Schnurr S. and Zayts O.A., Language and Culture at Work. Routledge, 2017.
Schnurr S., Chan A., Lowe J. and Zayts O.A., Leadership and culture: When stereotypes meet actual workplace practice., In: Cornelia Ilie and Stephanie Schnurr, Challenging leadership stereotypes through discourse: Power, management and gender.. Springer, 2017.
Shipman H.E., Zayts O.A. and Tischkowitz M., “Well, we can talk about it. We can joke about it, which is nice”: Indirectness in talk about end-of-life involving women with ovarian cancer, JCECC Conference on Collaboration in Creating Compassionate Holistic End- of-Life Care for the Future. 2017.
Wong H.M., Bridges S.M., McGrath C.P.J., Yiu C.K.Y., Zayts O.A. and Au T.K.F., Impact of Prominent Themes in Clinician-Patient Conversations on Caregiver’s Perceived Quality of Communication with Paediatric Dental Visits, PLOS ONE. 2017, 12: e0169059.
Zayts O.A. and Schnurr S., Epistemic ‘struggles’. When nurses’ expert identity is challenged by ‘knowledgeable’ clients. , In: Dorien van de Mieroop and Stephanie Schnurr, Identity Struggles. Evidence from Workplaces around the World. 2017.
Zayts O.A., Genetic Counselling/Consultations in Non-English Dominant Contexts: Decision-making regarding testing., In: Vine Bernadette, Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace (Handbooks in Linguistics Series). Routledge, 2017.
Zayts O.A. and Schnurr S., Patient laughter as an interactional resource in an L2 context of prenatal screening in Hong Kong, In: Bell, N. , Language Play Series. de Grueter Mouton, 2017.
Zayts O.A., Sarangi S. and Schnurr S., The management of diagnostic uncertainty and decision-making in genetics case conferences. , Communication and Medicine. Equinox, 2017.


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