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Organization Profile
Organisation profile
The Department of English Language and Literature aims to provide students with a quality liberal arts education through its various degree programmes. The uniqueness of the Department lies in its multi-disciplinary character as reflected in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that it offers.
The research areas of staff are broadly, Linguistics/Language Studies (Bilingualism; Contrastive Linguistics; Intercultural Communication; Gender and Language; Language Acquisition and Language Learning; Phonetics and Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Text/Discourse Analysis; World Englishes; Applied Linguistics; Professional Communication; Multimodal Communication; Hong Kong English) and Literary Studies (Twenty-First Century and Contemporary Literature; Chinese Western Comparative Literature; Gender and Literature; Identity & Diaspora in Literature; Literature and Film; New Literatures in English; Hong Kong Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Modernist Literature; Victorian Literature: Contemporary and Modern Drama; Postcolonial Studies).
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Scholars
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Winnie CHOR, Dr
- Department of English Language and Literature - Associate Professor, Associate Head
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Shun Man Emily CHOW-QUESADA, Dr
- Department of English Language and Literature - Assistant Professor
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Stuart CHRISTIE, Prof
- Department of English Language and Literature - Professor
- Office of the Dean of Arts - Executive Associate Dean
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Board Game Production in Hong Kong: Multimethod research on design, communities and outreach.
HARRINGTON, J., Calleja, G. & Leino, O. T.
1/09/23 → 31/08/26
Project: Research project
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Discourse-pragmatic functions of Cantonese grammatical particles: towards a comprehensive account of stancemarking in Cantonese
1/09/23 → 31/08/25
Project: Research project
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Transdisciplinary and intercultural challenges in game design
MENGONI, P., HARRINGTON, J. & ZHANG, X.
31/03/23 → 31/12/23
Project: Research project
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A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese: From Clausal Grammar to Discourse Semantics
Li, E. S. & Chor, W., 14 May 2024, 1st ed. London and New York: Routledge. 664 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book or report › peer-review
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[Book Review] Review of Lee (2023): Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect
Wee, L-H., Aug 2023, In: Babel. 69, 3, p. 421-424 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Aging-Related Decline in Phonated and Whispered Speech Perception Not Compensated For by Increased Duration and Intensity: Evidence From Mandarin-Speaking Adult Listeners
Xu, M., Shao, J., Liu, B., Wang, L., Ding, H. & Zhang, Y., 13 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 66, 2, p. 735-749 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
Prizes
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Award of Merit at IMPACT DOC Awards (Global Film Awards Competition)
WEE, Lian Hee (Recipient), Jul 2020
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Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Member
DORWART, Jason (Honorary Recipient ), 2017
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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Board Game Practices in Hong Kong
Johnathan HARRINGTON (Organiser)
9 Mar 2023Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Towards a Dialogue: initiating engagements on the cultural front.
Shun Man Emily CHOW-QUESADA (Organiser)
14 Apr 2023Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Dambudzo Marechera & Utopian Thinking
Shun Man Emily CHOW-QUESADA (Organiser)
18 Mar 2023Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
Press/Media
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What Netflix’s 'The Midnight Club' Gets Right About Disability Representation
26/10/22
1 Media contribution
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Student theses
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A comparative study on reporting the incident of parallel traders in two newspapers in Hong Kong
Author: Zhao, P., 8 Jan 2016Supervisor: LAM, P. W. Y. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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A contrastive analysis of mandarin prosody in service-oriented and non-service-oriented attitudinal spontaneous speech
Author: Li, B., 2016Supervisor: WAKEFIELD, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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A corpus-based study of the forms and functions of BE in the interlanguage grammars of Chinese learners of English
Author: Zhang, Y., 2008Supervisor: HUNG, T. T. N. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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