SCHOOL OF ENGLISH



Researcher : ANFINSON AL

List of Research Outputs

ANFINSON A.L. and NADIA A.D., Projections of sovereignty: (re)politicizing the so-called Islamic State, British International Studies Association Conference. University of Bath, 2018.
ANFINSON A.L., The Umbrella Revolution: Hong Kong's Civil Disobedience Movement, Movements: Protest, Politics and Activism in the 21st Century. Nottingham Contemporary Art Museum, 2017.
NADIA A.D. and ANFINSON A.L., “In the Words of the Enemy”: the Islamic State’s reflexive projection of statehood, Critical Studies on Terrorism. 2018, 11: 45-64.


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 for New Staff
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
Completion Date:12/2017


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., The Function of Names in U.S. Presidential Debates—Some Recent Powerplays, Performance Research. Taylor & Francis, 2017, Volume 22, No. 6: Unknown.


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 for New Staff
Start Date:02/2016
Completion Date:08/2017


List of Research Outputs

Bolander B.W.R. and Mostowlansky T., Co-editor of special issue "Language and Globalization in South and Central Asian Spaces", In: Ofelia Garcia (journal editor), International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Mouton de Gruyter, 2017, 247: 149.
Bolander B.W.R. and Locher M.A., Conflictual and consensual disagreement, In: Christian R. Hoffmann and Wolfram Bublitz, Pragmatics of Social Media . Mouton de Gruyter, 2017, Handbook of Pragmatics 11: 605-630.
Bolander B.W.R., English and the transnational Ismaili community: On ‘methodological nationalism’ and ‘transnationalism’, HKU Department of Linguistics seminar series. 2017.
Bolander B.W.R., English, Motility and Ismaili Transnationalism , In: Ofelia Garcia (journal editor) Brook Bolander & Till Mostowlansky (special issue editors), International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Mouton de Gruyter, 2017, 247.
Bolander B.W.R. and Mostowlansky T., Introducing Language and Globalization in South and Central Asian Spaces, In: Ofelia Garcia (journal editor) Brook Bolander & Till Mostowlansky (editors of special issue), International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Mouton de Gruyter, 2017, 247.
Bolander B.W.R., Language and identity in Facebook. , In: Steven Thorne, Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Language and Technology. Springer, 2017, Part of the series Encyclopedia of Language and Education.
Locher M.A. and Bolander B.W.R., Facework and identity, In: Christian R. Hoffmann and Wolfram Bublitz, Pragmatics of Social Media . Mouton de Gruyter, 2017, Handbook of Pragmatics 11: 407-434.


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 : CHUNG F

List of Research Outputs

CHUNG F., The Question of Character: John Ashbery's Late Lyrics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2017.


Researcher : Chan KW

List of Research Outputs

Chan K.W. and Leung J.H.C., Implicit Knowledge of Lexical Stress Rules: Evidence from the Combined Use of Subjective and Objective Awareness Measures, Applied Psycholinguistics . 2018, 39: 37-66.


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
Completion Date:12/2017


Project Title:The 2017 British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) conference; The voices of self in transnational narratives of Indonesian Chinese women in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Chen KHY
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:09/2017


List of Research Outputs

Chen K.H.Y., Ideologies of Language Standardization: The case of Cantonese in Hong Kong, In: James Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans , The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. UK, Oxford University Press, 2018.
Chen K.H.Y., The view from the periphery: the voices of self in transnational narratives, 18th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. 2017.
Chen K.H.Y., The voices of self in transnational narratives of Indonesian Chinese women in Hong Kong, British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual conference. 2017.
Kang A.M. and Chen K.H.Y., Gender stereotype as a vehicle for social change? The case of the Kong Girl, In: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Tommaso M. Milani, Gender and Language: Published on behalf of the Gender and Language Association. USA, Equinox Publishing, 2017.


Researcher : Chua CHB



Researcher : DALY JS

List of Research Outputs

DALY J.S., Below the line: social class discourse in YouTube comments, Sociolinguistics Symposium 22. University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2018.
DALY J.S., Benefits street on YouTube: a neoliberal commentary?, ALT Doctoral Seminars, Institute of Education. University of London, UK, 2018.
DALY J.S., The use of heteroglossia in YouTube comments to 'other' benefits recipients, King's College PhD Summer School in Sociolinguistics. U.K., 2018.


Researcher : Durant AE

List of Research Outputs

Leung J.H.C. and Durant A.E., In: Janny Leung and Alan Durant, Meaning and Power in the Language of Law. Cambridge University Press, 2018.


Researcher : GRESHAM JF

List of Research Outputs

GRESHAM J.F., Forms and Functions of Genre in Transnational Popular Culture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2018.


Researcher : GUALTIERI JJ

List of Research Outputs

GUALTIERI J.J., Literature and the Anthropocene, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2017.


Researcher : GUINTO NL

List of Research Outputs

GUINTO N.L., Semiotic landscape in the periphery: Examining the discursive infrastructure of transnational labor migration in Hong Kong, 10th Linguistic Landscapes Workshop. University of Bern, Switzerland, 2018.
GUINTO N.L., Semiotic landscape in the periphery: Examining the discursive infrastructure of transnational labor migration in Hong Kong, 2nd HKU Postgraduate Conference in Sociolinguistics. The University of Hong Kong, 2017.
GUINTO N.L., Semiotic landscape in the periphery: Examining the discursive infrastructure of transnational labor migration in Hong Kong, Sociolinguistics Symposium 22. University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2018.
GUINTO N.L., Tracing mobility in the margins: The linguistic portrait of a Filipina domestic worker in Hong Kong, 3rd HKU-KCL Doctoral Summer School in Sociolinguistics. King's College London, UK, 2018.
GUINTO N.L., Tracing mobility in the margins: The linguistic portrait of a Filipina domestic worker in Hong Kong, King's College London - Education Communication and Society Doctoral Conference. King's College London, UK, 2018.


Researcher : Gan WCH

Project Title:Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference; Ernest Bramah's Chinese Fictions
Investigator(s):Gan WCH
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2018
Completion Date:03/2018


List of Research Outputs

Gan W.C.H., 'Ernest Bramah's Chinese Fictions', Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Washington D.C.. 2018.


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


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
Completion Date:12/2017


Project Title:The Performing Arts: Making the Invisible Visible; The Arrival of Oceania: Ecology and Politics in Contemporary Pacific Island Performances
Investigator(s):Heim O
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2017
Completion Date:12/2017


List of Research Outputs

Heim O., Island Logic and the Decolonization of the Pacific, Interventions. 2017, 19: 914-929.
Heim O., Member of editorial board, Urban Island Stujdies. 2018.
Heim O., Samoan Ghost Stories: John Kneubuhl and Oral History, Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. 2018, 12: 35-47.
Heim O., The Arrival of Oceania: Ecology and Politics in Contemporary Pacific Island Performances, Pacific Chapter of the Pacific Arts Association 2017 Conference, National University of Samoa, Apia, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1st, 2017.


Researcher : Ho HLE

List of Research Outputs

Ho H.L.E., "Mapping Hong Kong" , Research seminar series for the Dept. of Geography and Resource Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong . 2018.
Ho H.L.E., "Temporal Rifts in Hong Kong: the slow arts of protest" , “As Slowly as Possible”: A Symposium of the Association for the Study of Arts in the Present (ASAP). Vrije University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2018.
Ho H.L.E., “Asian Masculinity And Whiteness In Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices Trilogy", In: Sara K. Day and Sonya Sawyer-Fritz, The Victorian Period in 21st Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature. New York, Routledge, 2018, 142-158.
Ho H.L.E., “Last Empress Fiction and Asian Neo-Victorianism”. Literature, Aesthetics and Cultural Exchange Between East Asia, South-East Asia, Britain and North America in the Long Nineteenth Century Workshop and panel. MLA, New York, Literature, Aesthetics and Cultural Exchange Between East Asia, South-East Asia, Britain and North America in the Long Nineteenth Century Workshop and panel. MLA, New York. 2018.
Ho H.L.E., “Maps in Comics”. , Spaced Out: Spatiality in Comics. Comics Studies Research Cluster University of Cagliari, Italy. 2017.
Ho H.L.E., “Maps in Post-reunification Hong Kong”., Humanities and the City Symposium, Singapore University of Technology and Design. 2017.


Researcher : Hulme HA

List of Research Outputs

Hulme H.A., 'An act of welcome': writing hospitality in Refugee Tales, Seminar Series, Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2018.
Hulme H.A., 'For to seken straunge strondes': Translating Chaucer Hospitably in Refugee Tales, 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. 2018.
Hulme H.A., Between remembrance and forgetting: fact, fiction and the importance of form in Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) and Semprun’s What a Beautiful Sunday! (1980), “Fiction and Facts in Narratives of Political Conflict”, the third symposium of the network Narrative and Memory: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, The University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. 2018.
Hulme H.A., Unconditional hospitality?: Travel, translation and telling tales, The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Lecture Series. 2018.


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:Sociolinguistics Symposium SS22; Documenting self and society: rethinking the boundary between sociolinguistics and art
Investigator(s):Hutton CM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2018
Completion Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Hutton C.M., Hiding In Plain Sight: The Category Of Ordinary Language And The Case Law Domain Of Transgender Marriage, Meaning and Power in the Language of Law. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 71-91.


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
Completion Date:06/2018


Project Title:10th Linguistic Landscape Workshop; x
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2018
Completion Date:05/2018


Project Title:Language Artists Talk: The Metadiscourses of Art (Part 2)
Investigator(s):Jaworski A
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Jaworski A. and Thurlow C., Word-things and thing-words: The transmodal production of privilege and status, In: Jillian R. Cavanaugh and Shalini Shankar, Language and Materiality: Ethnographical and Theoretical Explorations. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 185–203.
Thurlow C. and Jaworski A., The discursive production and maintenance of class privilege: Permeable geographies, slippery rhetorics, Discourse & Society. 2017, 28: 535-558.


Researcher : Kang AM

List of Research Outputs

Kang A.M. and Chen K.H.Y., Gender stereotype as a vehicle for social change? The case of the Kong Girl, In: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Tommaso M. Milani, Gender and Language: Published on behalf of the Gender and Language Association. USA, Equinox Publishing, 2017.


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




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




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
Completion Date:12/2017


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:'Travel, Translation, Communication' - Victorian Popular Fiction Assocation Annual Conference; 'David Copperfield, the Bildungsroman, and the Mobile Forces of Modernity’
Investigator(s):Kuehn JC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:07/2017


List of Research Outputs

Kuehn J.C., 'David Copperfield and the Tradition of the Bildungsroman', In: David Paroissien, Dickens Quarterly. Johns Hopkins UP, 2018, 35.1: 25-46.
Kuehn J.C., 'Teaching Literature and Empathy: Robert Vischer on Aesthetics and the Optical Sense of Form’, In: Emily Ridge, Modernism and Empathy: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference. 2018.
Kuehn J.C., Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Isabella Bird and Constance Cumming in Hong Kong, 1878, 2017.
Kuehn J.C., The Old Curiosity Rock: Hong Kong, the first Opium War, and the Travelogues and Fictions of 1839-42, 2017.
Kuehn J.C., ‘David Copperfield, the Bildungsroman, and the Mobile Forces of Modernity’, Victorian Popular Fiction Association Annual Conference. 2017.


Researcher : LAM KK

List of Research Outputs

LAM K.K., In Search of An Everyday Heroism: Three Novels from the 1930s, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2017.


Researcher : LUO Z

List of Research Outputs

LUO Z. and Zayts O.A., Commodification and marketization of genetic testing through online direct-to-consumer platforms, Conference on Digital Culture 2017: Digital Art, Design and Advertising. 2017.
LUO Z. and Zayts O.A., Language and literacy practices in personal genetic testing, 15th International Pragmatics Conference. Belfast, UK, 2017.
LUO Z. and Zayts O.A., Language and literacy practices in personal genetic testing, 15the International Pragmatics Association Meeting. 2017.
LUO Z., The emergency of online community of practice among users of direct-to-consumer genetic testing discussion forum in China, 3rd King's College London - University of Hong Kong PhD Summer School in Sociolingustics. King's College London, UK, 2018.
LUO Z., Zayts O.A. and Shipman H., The role of narratives of vicarious experience in commodification and marketisation of genetic testing in Chinese social media, 2nd HKU PhD Conference in Sociolinguistics: Multimodal and Mediated Discourse Analysis. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2017.
Zayts O.A. and Luo Z., Commodification and marketisation of genetic testing through online direct-to-consumer platforms in Hong Kong, In: Theo van Dijk, Discourse and Communication. Taylor and Francis, 2017, 1-18.


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
Completion Date:03/2018


Project Title:Crime and Communication on New Media
Investigator(s):Leung JHC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


Project Title:Law and Society Association Annual Meeting; Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence: A Commentary on Legal Multilingualism in the World Today
Investigator(s):Leung JHC
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2018
Completion Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Chan K.W. and Leung J.H.C., Implicit Knowledge of Lexical Stress Rules: Evidence from the Combined Use of Subjective and Objective Awareness Measures, Applied Psycholinguistics . 2018, 39: 37-66.
Leung J.H.C. and Durant A.E., In: Janny Leung and Alan Durant, Meaning and Power in the Language of Law. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Leung J.H.C., Oaths: Law, Language, and Allegiance. A roundtable discussion, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. 2017.
Leung J.H.C., Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence: A Commentary on Legal Multilingualism in the World Today, The Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association.. 2018.


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., Englishes in an age of reimagining: Perspectives from multicultural Asia, International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School. Regensburg, Germany, University of Regensburg, 2017.


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., Disclosure and the ideology of sociolinguistic naturalism in first impressions, Sociolinguistics Symposium 22. University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2018.
MILITELLO J.M.W., First impressions are lasting impressions: Small talk as an index of identity within elite job interviews, 15th International Pragmatics Conference. Belfast, 2017.


Researcher : NOGUES CD

List of Research Outputs

NOGUES C.D., "Examination and Discovery" and "A Book of Patriotic Movements", Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 2017.
NOGUES C.D., Crossing Cultures and Languages: Aurelio Asiain, Jason Y. Ng, Collier Nogues, and Eddie Tay, Hong Kong Consulate of Mexico and Cha Literary Reading Series: invited speaker. 2018.
NOGUES C.D., The Protests Became a Poem: Liu Waitong's Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits, Review in Jacket2. 2017.
NOGUES C.D., Un-bordering the Border: Mariko Nagai and Collier Nogues, Cha Literary Reading Series: invited speaker. 2018.
NOGUES C.D., Domination and Resistance: The United States and the Marshall Islands During the Cold War, Review in Postcolonial Text. 2017, 12, no. 2.
NOGUES C.D., Hardly War, Always War: Don Mee Choi's Geopolitical Poetics, American Comparative Literature Association Conference. Utrecht, 2017.
NOGUES C.D., “With [Our] Entire Breath”: The US Military Buildup on Guåhan (Guam) and Craig Santos Perez’s Literature of Resistance, Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. 2018, 12.


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


List of Research Outputs

Noel D., Editorial Board member, Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics. Elsevier, 2017, 2017-2019.
Noel D., The development of non-deontic be bound to in a radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar perspective, Lingua. Elsevier, 2017, 199: 72-93.


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:New Directions in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics; In what sense is integrational theory radically lay-oriented?
Investigator(s):Pable AM
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2018
Completion Date:06/2018




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:Biography and Public History: Constructing Historical Narratives through Life-Writing; History and Lyric Poetry in Life Writing
Investigator(s):Richards PK
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2018
Completion Date:06/2018




Researcher : SHI H

List of Research Outputs

SHI H., Review of The Completion of a Poem: Letter to Young Poets, by Yang Mu. Trans. Lisa Lai-ming Wong, Journal of Translation Studies, New Series, 2017, 1, No. 2: 109-114.


Researcher : SMITH SP

List of Research Outputs

SMITH S.P., Ghost Tigers: Climate Change and the Escalation of Extinction, Guernica. 2018.
SMITH S.P., Instagram abroad: performance, consumption and colonial narrative in tourism, Postcolonial Studies. 2018, 21: 172-191.
SMITH S.P., Interdisciplinarity: The practice and practicality of thinking through multiple fields, ALT Doctoral Seminars, Institute of Education. University of London, UK, 2018.
SMITH S.P., Tourism in Myanmar: Discursive Patterning and Development, Summer School in Sociolinguistics. King's College London, UK, 2018.


Researcher : Shipman HE

Project Title:15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2017); “We can talk about it. We can joke about it, you know, which is nice”: Tensions surrounding (in)directness in talk about death and dying involving women with ovarian cancer
Investigator(s):Shipman HE
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:07/2017


Project Title:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships 2017-18
Investigator(s):Shipman HE
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships
Start Date:09/2017


List of Research Outputs

Shipman H.E., Zayts O.A. and Tischkowitz M., “Well, we can talk about it. We can joke about it, which is nice”: Indirectness and distancing in talk about death and dying involving women with ovarian cancer , 15th International Pragmatics Association Conference. 2017.
Zayts O.A., Shipman H.E., Lord L.A. and Chen E.Y.H., Mind HK: Transitions in mental health care in Hong Kong Mind HK: Transitions in mental health care in Hong Kong Mind HK: Transitions in mental health care in Hong Kong , 15th International Pragmatics Association Conference. 2017.


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 : TOMFOHRDE CS

List of Research Outputs

TOMFOHRDE C.S., Contextualizing Iconoclasm: Early Missionaries and the Textuality of Culture Change in Polynesia, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 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 for New Staff
Start Date:11/2015
Completion Date:05/2018


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:Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS): Serials, Cycles, Suspensions; The Fixed Period: Dystopia/Utopia Serialized
Investigator(s):Valdez JR
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2018
Completion Date:03/2018


List of Research Outputs

Valdez J.R., “‘Our Impending Doom’: Dystopia and Serial Form in Anthony Trollope’s The Fixed Period” , In: na, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.. 2018.


Researcher : WU ZZ

List of Research Outputs

WU Z.Z., Landscaping and the autoglottic space: a case of the Umbrella Movement, Philosophy of Communication: East and West. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2018.
WU Z.Z., Placing the Umbrella: an imagined community created from the integration of the online and offline, BAAL2017. University of Leeds, UK.
WU Z.Z., Revisiting 'postcoloniality' through the processes of semiotic landscaping in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, Zurich Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Language Studies - Changes and Challenges. University of Zurich, Zurich, 2018.
WU Z.Z., Some thoughts on the processes of creating an affectively motivated assemblage: a case on the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, 2014, 3rd KCL-HKU PhD Summer School in Sociolinguistics. King's College London, UK, 2018.
WU Z.Z., Topos, media and integration: a case of 26th-29th Sept 2014, Hong Kong, MMDA2017. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
WU Z.Z., Topos, media and Gemeinschaft: the Umbrella Movement from 26th-29th September 2014, Hong Kong, Postgraduate Seminar presentation, Centre of Applied Linguistics. University College London, UK, 2017.


Researcher : Wong LYM

List of Research Outputs

Wong L.Y.M., Advertising luxury residences in Hong Kong: a multimodal critical discourse analysis, The 6th New Zealand Discourse Conference 2017 (nzdc 2017), 6-9 December 2017, Auckland University Of Technology, New Zealand. 2017.
Wong L.Y.M., Analysing Visual Imagery: Connecting Semiotic and Cognitive Perspectives, Cognitive Semantics. 2018, 4: 39-75.
Wong L.Y.M., Analysing aggression of social actors in political protests: combining corpus and cognitive approaches to discourse analysis, Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. 2017, 9: 178-194.


Researcher : ZHANG W

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG W., Beastly Revolt: Orwellian Ethics of the Body, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2018.


Researcher : Zayts OA

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:International Pragmatics Association (IPrA); Global transitions in health care (panel; co-organizer)/Mind HK : Transitions in mental health care in Hong Kong (paper; first author)/Does pragmatics matter? Migrant doctors' perceptions of conflict talk: The case of Chile and Hong Kong (paper; co-author)/The "Mind HK" online resource: Multiple transitions in information delivery in mental health care in Hong Kong (paper; co-author)
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:07/2017


Project Title:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards 2017-18 (Second Round)
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2017


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, Chung BHY, Chen KHY, Shipman HE
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


List of Research Outputs

LUO Z. and Zayts O.A., Commodification and marketization of genetic testing through online direct-to-consumer platforms, Conference on Digital Culture 2017: Digital Art, Design and Advertising. 2017.
LUO Z. and Zayts O.A., Language and literacy practices in personal genetic testing, 15th International Pragmatics Conference. Belfast, UK, 2017.
LUO Z. and Zayts O.A., Language and literacy practices in personal genetic testing, 15the International Pragmatics Association Meeting. 2017.
LUO Z., Zayts O.A. and Shipman H., The role of narratives of vicarious experience in commodification and marketisation of genetic testing in Chinese social media, 2nd HKU PhD Conference in Sociolinguistics: Multimodal and Mediated Discourse Analysis. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2017.
Laurino M.Y., Leppig K.A., Abad P.J., Cham B., Chu Y.Y., Kejriwal S., Lee J.M.H., Sternen D.L., Thompson J.K., Burgess M., Chien S., Elackatt N., Lim J.Y., Sura T., Faradz S., Padilla C., Cutiongco de-la Paz E., Nauphar D., Nguyen N.K. and Zayts O.A., The Establishment of the Professional Society of Genetic Counselors in Asia: A Report from the Genetic Counseling Pre-Conference Workshop held at the 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Genetics in Hanoi, Viet Nam. , Journal of Genetic Counselling. 2017.
Lazzaro-Salazar M. and Zayts O.A., Does pragmatics matter? Migrant doctors' perceptions of conflict talk: The case of Chile and Hong Kong , 15th International Pragmatics Association Conference. 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 and distancing in talk about death and dying involving women with ovarian cancer , 15th International Pragmatics Association Conference. 2017.
Zayts O.A. and Lazzaro-Salazar M., A sociolinguistic investigation of professional mobility and multicultural healthcare communication, In: Demjian, Zsofia, Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Zayts O.A. and Luo Z., Commodification and marketisation of genetic testing through online direct-to-consumer platforms in Hong Kong, In: Theo van Dijk, Discourse and Communication. Taylor and Francis, 2017, 1-18.
Zayts O.A., King’s/HKU Fellowship Award 2017/2018, The University of Hong Kong. 2017.
Zayts O.A., Making sense of transitions: Identity construction of migrant doctors in Chile and Hong Kong, 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice . 2017.
Zayts O.A., Shipman H.E., Lord L.A. and Chen E.Y.H., Mind HK: Transitions in mental health care in Hong Kong Mind HK: Transitions in mental health care in Hong Kong Mind HK: Transitions in mental health care in Hong Kong , 15th International Pragmatics Association Conference. 2017.
Zayts O.A. and Lazzaro-Salazar M., Panel organization "Global Transitions in Health Care", 15th International Pragmatics Association Conference. 2017.


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