Hong Kong Polytechnic University
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with Hong Kong Polytechnic University plays a role.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests. Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics (21:1)
Edited by Guofeng Wang & Ming Liu
[Journal of Language and Politics, 21:1] 2022. | special issueSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China: Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 (2022)
Edited by Doreen D. Wu, Ming Liu & David C.S. Li
[Chinese Language and Discourse: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 13:1] 2022. | special issueSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Metaphor in Mental Healthcare: Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 (2020)
Edited by Dennis Tay
[Metaphor and the Social World, 10:2] 2020. | special issueSubjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies
The pragmatics of professional discourse: Special Issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:1 (2016)
Edited by Winnie Cheng
[Pragmatics and Society, 7:1] 2016. | special issueSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Metaphor in Psychotherapy: A descriptive and prescriptive analysis
Dennis Tay
[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 1] 2013. vii, 211 pp. | monographSubjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives
Edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona
[Typological Studies in Language, 96] 2011. xvii, 796 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Media Discourse in Greater China: Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication volume 19:2 (2009)
Edited by Sai-hua Kuo & Doreen D. Wu
[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 19:2] 2009. | special issueSubjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)
Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves & Martin Warren
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 32] 2008. xi, 325 pp. (incl. CD-Rom) | monographSubjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Features of Naturalness in Conversation
Martin Warren
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 152] 2006. x, 272 pp. | monographSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Intercultural Conversation
Winnie Cheng
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 118] 2003. xii, 279 pp. | monographSubjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Conversational Dominance and Gender: A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts
Hiroko Itakura
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 89] 2001. xviii, 231 pp. | monographSubjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2024 Individual differences and task-based language teaching: Theory, research, and practice
In: Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching[Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 16] pp. 10–49
Keywords individual differences | task-based language teaching | anxiety | language aptitude | motivation | working memory
2024 Anxiety in task-based language teaching: A state-of-the-art review
In: Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching[Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 16] pp. 52–83
Keywords anxiety | task-based language teaching | corrective feedback | task complexity | task engagement | task modality
2024 The effects of planning type, working memory, and anxiety on L2 writing performance
In: Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching[Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 16] pp. 161–195
Keywords second language writing | task planning | working memory | anxiety
2024 Interrogatives of reason in Tibeto-Burman languages of Sichuan
Keywords interrogatives of reason | verbal interrogatives | Tibeto-Burman languages | purpose & cause | typology
2024 “Please make sure we don’t get this interpreter again”: Australian legal aid lawyers’ experience of working with interpreters
Keywords lawyer-client interviews | role | interviews | legal interpreting | telephone interpreting
2024 Effect of word order asymmetry on the cognitive load of English–Chinese sight translation: Evidence from eye movement data
Keywords word order asymmetry | cognitive load | English–Chinese sight translation | eye movement
2024 Evaluation of the Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) as a quick and practical proxy for language
proficiency
Keywords language proficiency | proficiency test | L2 proficiency | MINT | LexTALE
2024 重慶方言句末語氣詞的意義功能及結構 [Functions and syntax of sentence-final particles in Chongqing dialect]
Keywords 重慶方言 | 句末語氣詞 | CP 分裂假說 | 語義 | Chongqing dialect | sentence-final particle | lexical semantics | split-CP hypothesis
2024 Adult L2 learners’ morphological sensitivity in a morphosyllabic language
Keywords morphological processing | Chinese | word naming | second language proficiency
2023 Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal: A critical discourse analysis of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearings
Keywords blame | blame-avoiding strategies | critical discourse analysis | Facebook | Mark Zuckerberg | digital corporations
2023 Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email
requests
Keywords reflexive metadiscourse | indexicality | affiliative communication | group email | requests
2023 Style in speech and narration of two English translations of Hongloumeng
: A corpus-based multidimensional study
Keywords translator style | multidimensional analysis |
Hongloumeng
| narration | fictional speech
2023 The LexTALE as a measure of L2 global proficiency: A cautionary tale based on a partial replication of Lemhöfer and Broersma (2012)
Keywords LexTALE | L2 global proficiency | vocabulary size | conceptual replication
2023 Towards a corpus-based approach to graphic elements in creative subtitling: A case study of the YouTube channel “Apenjie with Dawang”
Keywords creative subtitling | corpus | graphic elements | multimodality | metafunction | mode | sous-titrage créatif | corpus | éléments graphiques | multimodalité | méta-fonction | mode
2023 The image schemas of container and source-path-goal in the theory of psychodynamic defense mechanisms
Keywords defense mechanisms | psychodynamic theory | cognitive linguistics | image schema | early cognitive development
2023 Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers: A key keyword analysis of the thematic concepts
Keywords leftover women | corpus linguistics | a key keyword analysis | gender representations | thematic concepts | patriarchy | egalitarianism
2022 Exploring genre variation and simplification in interpreted language from comparable and intermodal
perspectives
Keywords genre variation | simplification | comparable | intermodal | variation patterns | variation de genre | simplification | comparable | intermodal | modèles de variation
2022 Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings
Keywords critical discourse studies | political discourse analysis | legitimation strategies | revolutionary discourses | African politics | Jerry John Rawlings
2022 Listener perceptions of customer service agents’ performance: Do comprehensibility, accentedness, and fluency matter?
Keywords comprehensibility | accentedness | fluency | perception | customer service | foreign-based call center
2022 Rapport building by Chinese celebrities on Weibo and Facebook
Keywords Chinese celebrity discourse | rapport building | relational acts | interactional features | Facebook | Weibo
2022 Afrikaans English as a Southern Hemisphere English: Perspectives from a Namibian bilingual dataset
Keywords South African English | Namibian English | sociophonetics | language contact | Afrikaans
2022 Applying systemic functional linguistics in translation studies: A research synthesis
Keywords systemic functional linguistics | synthesis | meta-analysis | research themes | linguistique fonctionnelle systémique | synthèse | méta-analyse | thème de recherche
2022 Teachers’ attitudes towards varieties of Hong Kong English: Implications for English language teaching
Keywords Hong Kong English | language attitudes | verbal-guise | nativisation | English language teaching
2022 Ambiguity resolution and the evolution of homophones in English
In: English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358] pp. 61–90
Keywords linguistic evolution | homophones | ambiguity | Zipf’s law | word frequency | diatones | neural substrates
2022 Effectiveness of a CL-informed approach to English preposition acquisition by young Chinese learners
Keywords cognitive linguistics | English preposition acquisition | young Chinese learners of English as a foreign language
2022 Individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video Ads
Keywords creative metaphors | video ads | identification | individual differences | C-MIPVA
2022 Interrogatives of Liangshan Yi
Keywords interrogatives | Liangshan Yi | Nuosu | Niesu | Tibeto-Burman
2022 Multiculturalism in media representation: Examining news reporting of Sino-US trade war in China Daily and the South China Morning Post
Keywords comparative media discourse studies | multiculturalism | media representation | Sino-US trade war | critical discourse analysis | corpus linguistics
2022 Stancetaking in Hong Kong political discourse: A corpus-assisted discourse study
Keywords stancetaking | political discourse | Hong Kong | public speeches | Chief Executive | critical discourse analysis | corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS)
2022 Universals in machine translation?: A corpus-based study of Chinese-English translations by WeChat Translate
Keywords Translation Universals | machine translation |
WeChat Translate
| simplification | normalization
2021 A cognitive investigation of ‘chunking’ and ‘reordering’ for coping with word-order asymmetry in English-to-Chinese
sight translation: Evidence from an eye-tracking study
Keywords word-order asymmetry | sight translation | eye-tracking | chunking | reordering
2021 A multi-dimensional analysis of the representation of conference interpreters in the Chinese media
Keywords image of conference interpreters | representation in Chinese media | multimodal analysis | thematic and rhetorical analysis
2021 Learning Chinese political formulaic phraseology from a self-built bilingual United Nations Security Council
corpus: A pilot study
Keywords formulaic phraseology | corpus | united nations security council | simultaneous interpreting | phraséologie formelle | corpus | conseil de sécurité des nations unies | interprétation simultanée
2021 Analysing the functions of online destination forums through a corpus-assisted discourse-analytic
approach
Keywords Corpus-assisted discourse analysis | Destination forums | Discourse analysis | Keyword analysis | Online travel communication | Tourism discourse | TripAdvisor
2021 Contextual congruency and novel metaphor integration
Keywords mapping principles | novel metaphor | conventional metaphor contexts | congruency | Mandarin Chinese
2021 Delimiting durative events with manner: A comparative study of two verbs of rushing in Mandarin
Keywords verbal semantics | event structure | MARVS | generative lexicon | construction grammar
2021 Discretion: The final particle ou and its functions in medical advice-giving
Keywords
ou
| discretion | conversation analysis | interpersonal pragmatics |
嘔
| 慎重表達 | 會話分析 | 人際語用學
2021 Making meaning with metaphor in grief therapy: A single-session segmental approach
Keywords metaphor | meaning making | grief therapy
2021 The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations: A corpus-assisted discourse study
Keywords protests | Hong Kong | corpus-assisted discourse study | emotion | fear
2021 A systematic review of experimental research in audiovisual translation 1992–2020
Keywords systematic review | audiovisual translation | experiment | research synthesis
2021 An introduction to the special issue on “Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong protests”
Keywords language use | politics | media | critical discourse analysis | corpus linguistics | protests | Hong Kong | extradition bill | news discourse | social media
2021 Listeners’ perception of the quality of simultaneous interpreting and perceived dependence on simultaneous interpreting
Keywords remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI) | perceived dependence | quality perception | English as a lingua franca
2022 The influence of repeated interactions on the persuasiveness of simulation: A case study on smoking reduction
Keywords behavior change | mental simulation | computer simulation | interactive tangible systems | blended causality | embodied cognition
2021 Tradition, modernity, and Chinese masculinity: The multimodal construction of ideal manhood in a reality dating show
Keywords identity | Chinese masculinity | reality dating show | multimodal construction
2021 Understanding textual meaning-making in Chinese high school EFL learners’ writing: A systemic functional perspective
Keywords textual meaning-making | Chinese high school EFL learners | Theme | Systemic Functional Linguistics
2021 “We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end”: Hashtag activism in Hong Kong protests
Keywords hashtag activism | Discourse of Illusion | Twitter | Hong Kong Protests | social media discourse
2020 The voice of the translator: A case study of the English translations of The Peony Pavilion
Keywords translator’s voice | translation strategy | ideology | visibility |
The Peony Pavilion
| classical Chinese opera
2020 A mixed-method analysis of image-schematic metaphors in describing anger, anxiety, and depression
Keywords therapeutic themes | image-schematic metaphors | mixed-methods
2020 A multifactorial analysis of metaphors in political discourse: Gendered influence in Hong Kong political speeches
Keywords political discourse | metaphor | gender | multifactorial analysis
2020 Caused-Motion and Caused-Position: Syntactic patterns and semantic networks
Keywords Construction Grammar | Caused-Motion Construction | Caused-Position Construction | Locative Inversion | polysemy | English | Mandarin
2020 Development of deontic modality in Chinese civil laws: A corpus study
Keywords deontic modality | legal discourse | Chinese civil laws | corpus linguistics | diachronic development
2020 Language interference in English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting with and without text
Keywords language interference | language specificity | English-Chinese interpreting | interférence linguistique | spécificité linguistique | interprétation de l’anglais en chinois | interprétation simultanée avec et sans texte | Nations Unies
2021 Localizing Chinese games for Southeast Asian markets: A multidimensional perspective
Keywords video games | game localization | gamers | Chinese games | Southeast Asia
2020 Matthiessen on Halliday: An interview with Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen (Part II)
Keywords M. A. K. Halliday | interview | computational linguistics | machine translation | language teaching | language development | sociology | Basil Bernstein | social semiotics | Halliday in China
2020 On the translation of Japanese politeness into Cantonese: A case study of anime
Keywords translation | dubbing | politeness | Japanese | Cantonese | 翻譯 | 配音 | 禮貌 | 日語 | 廣東話
2020 Surveying views of metaphor vs. literal language in psychotherapy: A factor analysis
Keywords confirmatory factor analysis | exploratory factor analysis | metaphor functions | experimental survey
2020 Trinocular views of register: Approaching register trinocularly
Keywords register | dialect | code | rank scale | trinocular vision | stratification | instantiation | registerial cartography | metafunction | systemic functional paradigm
2021 日语母语者汉语是非疑问句语调习得研究 [The acquisition of Mandarin intonation of Yes/No question sentences by native Japanese speakers]
Keywords 日本母语者 | 汉语是非疑问句 | 语调 | 输出 | 听辨 | 声学分析 | 音高 | native Japanese speakers | Mandarin yes/no question | intonation | production and perception | acoustic analysis | pitch
2020 Exploring the impact of word order asymmetry on cognitive load during Chinese–English sight translation: Evidence from eye-movement data
Keywords sight translation | word order asymmetry | eye movements | cognitive load
2020 Interpreters’ perceived characteristics and perception of quality in interpreting
Keywords perceptions of quality | reverse linguistic stereotyping | non-native accents | consecutive interpretation
2020 Plurality and definiteness in Chengdu Chinese
Keywords plurality | definiteness |
ɕiɛ
| Chengdu Chinese |
di
| Cantonese
2020 A quantitative analysis of tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin and Nanjing Mandarin based on surface pitch contours and
underlying pitch targets
Keywords tone sandhi | growth curve analysis | linear systems | underlying pitch target | Standard Mandarin | Nanjing Mandarin
2020 Assertion, presumption and presupposition: An account of the erstwhile nominalizer YUM in Khalkha Mongolian
Keywords assertion | presumption | presupposition | inference | evidentiality
2019 Death in a multicultural society: Metaphor, language and religion in Singapore obituaries
Keywords obituaries | death | metaphor | religion | identity construction
2019 Describing the Cookie Theft picture: Sources of breakdown in Alzheimer’s dementia
Keywords Alzheimer’s dementia | aphasia | Cookie Theft picture | discourse | executive function | pragmatics | speech-language pathology | theory of mind
2019 Disfluency in relay and non-relay simultaneous interpreting: An initial exploration
Keywords relay interpreting | disfluency | repairs | filled pauses | United Nations | interprétation en relais | disfluence | réparations | pause sonore | Nations Unies
2020 Hotel management’s attempts at repairing customers’ trust: The use of apology and denial
Keywords apology | denial | hotel accommodation | TripAdvisor | trust violation | trust repair
2019 Matthiessen on Halliday: An interview with Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen (Part I)1
Keywords M. A. K. Halliday | appliable linguistics | Wang Li | J. R. Firth | Marxism | Chomskyan linguistics | phonetics | Chinese phonology | language description | typology
2019 Register in Systemic Functional Linguistics*
Keywords cline of instantiation | hierarchy of stratification | semiotic | registerial cartography | semantic variation
2019 Text characteristics, perceived difficulty and task performance in
sight translation: An exploratory study of university-level students
Keywords text characteristics | perceived difficulty | task performance | sight translation
2019 The effect of morphological structure on semantic transparency ratings
Keywords Mandarin Chinese | constituent semantic transparency | compound word-formation | headedness | crowdsourcing
2019 The effectiveness of the Conceptual Metaphor Approach to English idiom acquisition by young Chinese
learners
Keywords learning outcomes | learning experience | conceptual metaphor theory | second language acquisition
2019 “We must unite now or perish!”: Kwame Nkrumah’s creation of a mythic discourse?
Keywords Africa | critical discourse analysis | discursive strategy | Kwame Nkrumah | mythic discourse | political discourse analysis
2019 Intergroup dynamics and variation in postcolonial ESL varieties: A preliminary view of Namibian English vowel systems
Keywords sociophonetics | sociolinguistics | language contact | ethnicity | gender | Namibia
2019 Tracing emergent multilectal styles: Forms and functions of code-switching among Ovambos in urban Namibia
Keywords sociolinguistics | code-switching | language contact | style | Namibia
2018 Formal ontology for discourse analysis of a corpus of court interpreting
Keywords court interpreting | ontology | corpus | Hong Kong | interprétation judiciaire | ontologie | corpus | Hong Kong
2018 Non-renditions and the court interpreter’s perceived impartiality: A role-play study
Keywords non-rendition | court interpreting | perceived impartiality | role play
2018 An empirical study on fabric image retrieval with multispectral images using colour and pattern features
In: Progress in colour studies: Cognition, language and beyond pp. 391–404
Keywords fabric image | image retrieval | multispectral image | fabric features | colour measurement
2018 Language, attitudes and party politics: The representation of Republicans and Democrats in Presidential weekly addresses
Keywords political discourse analysis | attitudes | Presidential rhetoric | party politics | Barack Obama | weekly addresses
2018 Meat, guns, and God: Expressions of nationalism in rural America
Keywords ruralscapes | billboards | national identity | Americanness
2018 NP interpretation and disposal variations among the Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shaoxing dialects
Keywords NP interpretation | disposal variation | Mandarin | Cantonese | Shaoxing dialect
2017 Ways to move forward in translation studies: A textual perspective
Keywords textual meaning | thematic progression | Theme | translation choices
2017 Excessive serial verb construction: A quasi-resultative serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese
Keywords serial verb construction | excessive | nucleus | core
2018 From middle to passive: A diachronic analysis of Korean -eci constructions
Keywords middle voice | passive voice | Korean -eci
| valence-change phenomena | diachrony of voice markers
2017 Non-renditions in court interpreting: A corpus-based study
Keywords non-rendition | court interpreting | textual | interactional | self-initiated | other-prompted | non-restitution | interprétation judiciaire | textuel | interactionnel | formulé du propre chef des interprètes | dicté/inspiré par d'autres
2016 A hermeneutical approach to gender linguistic materiality: Semiotic
and structural categorisation of gender in Hong Kong Cantonese
In: Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 264] p. 89
Keywords Cantonese | contrastive | English | forms | gender shift | grammaticalisation | interlingual dynamics | semiotics | structure
2017 A variational approach to deliberate metaphors
Keywords log-linear analysis | deliberate metaphor | metaphor variation
2017 Chinese interrogative particles as talk coordinators at the right periphery: A discourse–pragmatic perspective
Keywords Cantonese ho2 | common ground marker | affirmation marker | interactional particles | discourse coherence model | interrogative particles
2016 Do collocational frameworks have local grammars?
Keywords phraseology | patterns of co-selection | regulative texts | local grammars | collocational frameworks
2016 Discursive construction of the ‘key’ moment in the Umbrella Movement
Keywords discursive illusion | key moments | media
2015 Metaphor in case study articles on Chinese university counseling service websites
Keywords Chinese context | counseling | e-health | Metaphor
2015 Scapegoating the interpreter for listeners’ dissatisfaction with their level of understanding: An experimental study
Keywords scapegoat | Cantonese | simultaneous interpreting | comprehension | accent
2015 Translators’ professional habitus and the adjacent discipline: The case of Edgar Snow
Keywords professional habitus | adjacent discipline | Edgar Snow | journalist translator
2014 Anglicized numerical denominations as a coping tactic for simultaneous interpreting from English into Mandarin Chinese: An experimental study
Keywords Simultaneous interpreting | anglicization | numerical denominations | cognitive resources allocation | English into Chinese
2014 At the heart of cognition, communication, and language: The value of psychotherapy to metaphor study
Keywords counseling | discourse career | metaphor | psychotherapy
2014 Bodily experience as both source and target of meaning making: Implications from metaphors in psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Keywords embodiment | metaphor | psychotherapy | bodily experience | PTSD
2014 On the development of Korean SAY evidentials and their extended pragmatic functions
Keywords hearsay evidential markers | epistemic strength | phonological reduction | diachronic corpus analysis | finiteness | verbal elision | main-clause ellipsis | insubordination
2014 The use of reported speech and the perceived neutrality of court interpreters
Keywords reported speech | court interpreting | speech attribution | perceived neutrality | role-play
2014 Variability in the rhetorical structure of research article introductions: The case of civil engineering
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:2 pp. 405–432 | article
Keywords research writing | introductions | research articles | genre
2013 Non-native accents and simultaneous interpreting quality perceptions
Keywords non-native accent | quality perception | simultaneous interpreting | Cantonese
2013 The interpreter’s glossary in simultaneous interpreting: A survey
Keywords simultaneous interpreting | survey | terminology | glossary
2012 Omission in Simultaneous Interpreting: Word order differences
Keywords Simultaneous interpreting | coverb | media interpreting | Effort Model | omission
2012 The use of reported speech by court interpreters in Hong Kong
Keywords latitude | direct speech | court interpreting | corpus | Cantonese
2012 Disentangling the meanings of two Cantonese evidential particles
Keywords Cantonese | sentence-final particles | discourse particles | epistemic marker | natural semantic metalanguage | evidential marker
2011 Hybridized images: Representations of the “modern woman” across mainland China and Hong Kong TV commercials
Keywords between tradition and modernity | advertising | Chinese woman | images
2011 The death of the translator in machine translation: A bilingual poetry project
Keywords Hsia Yü | death of the translator | machine translation | dissemination | différance
2009 Numbers in Simultaneous Interpreting: An experimental study
Keywords approximation | omission | erroneous rendition | Simultaneous interpreting | numbers
2009 The evolution of the English-language speech community in Hong Kong
Keywords Dynamic Model | post-colonial English | Hong Kong | language contact | complaint tradition | Chinese | speech community | Cantonese
2008 Simultaneous Interpreting of Numbers: An experimental study
Keywords Simultaneous interpreting | number | training | experiment | English into Chinese
2008 Timelines, talk and transcription: A chronometric approach to simultaneous speech
Keywords corpus | Maptask | simultaneous speech | speech segmentation | transcription
2007 The Effectiveness of Summary Training in Consecutive Interpreting (CI) Delivery
Keywords Consecutive interpreting | performance assessment | interpreting pedagogy | summary exercise | research validity and reliability
2006
because of the role of er front office um in hotel
: Lexical cohesion and discourse intonation
Keywords job placement interview | lexical cohesion | cohesive chain | discourse intonation | Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English | prominence
2006 Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourse
Keywords lexical cohesion | lexical item | semantic preference | semantic prosody | colligation | collocation | core | extended units of meaning | Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English
2006 From n-gram to skipgram to concgram
Keywords concgram | constituency and positional variations | contiguous and non-contiguous word associations | corpus linguistics
2005 //CAN i help you //: The use of rise and rise-fall tones in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English
Keywords discourse intonation | Hong Kong Chinese | native English speakers | speaker dominance | business discourses | conversations | academic supervisions
English in Namibia: A socio-historical account
In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety[Varieties of English Around the World, G65] pp. 21–42
Keywords Namibian English | colonial language policy | language policy | multilingualism | nativization