Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with Hong Kong Polytechnic University plays a role.

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Subjects 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 volume
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Subjects 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) | monograph
Subjects 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. | monograph
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Intercultural Conversation

Winnie Cheng

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 118] 2003. xii, 279 pp. | monograph
Subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Li, Shaofeng 2024 Individual differences and task-based language teaching: Theory, research, and practice
Keywords individual differences | task-based language teaching | anxiety | language aptitude | motivation | working memory
An, Hyejin & Shaofeng Li 2024 Anxiety in task-based language teaching: A state-of-the-art review
Keywords anxiety | task-based language teaching | corrective feedback | task complexity | task engagement | task modality
An, Hyejin & Shaofeng Li 2024 The effects of planning type, working memory, and anxiety on L2 writing performance
Keywords second language writing | task planning | working memory | anxiety
Ke, Sihui (Echo), Rui Jin & Keiko Koda 2024 Adult L2 learners’ morphological sensitivity in a morphosyllabic language
The Mental Lexicon | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article
Ding, Hongdi & Sicong Dong 2024 Interrogatives of reason in Tibeto-Burman languages of Sichuan
Language and Linguistics 25:2pp. 187–233 | article
Keywords interrogatives of reason | verbal interrogatives | Tibeto-Burman languages | purpose & cause | typology
Ikechukwu-Ibe, Chioma Juliet & Sopuruchi Christian Aboh 2024 “The youths are wiser now”: A positive discourse analysis of resistance in Nigeria’s 2023 electoral rhetoric
Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 20 pp. | article
Ma, Xingcheng & Dechao Li 2024 Effect of word order asymmetry on the cognitive load of English–Chinese sight translation: Evidence from eye movement data
Translation and Interpreting Studies 19:1pp. 105–131 | article
Keywords word order asymmetry | cognitive load | English–Chinese sight translation | eye movement
Tang, Li & Yu-Yin Hsu 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]
Language and Linguistics 25:3pp. 535–575 | article
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
Liu, Ming & Yanxi Lu 2023 Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal: A critical discourse analysis of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearings
Pragmatics and Society 15:3pp. 471–494 | article
Keywords blame | blame-avoiding strategies | critical discourse analysis | Facebook | Mark Zuckerberg | digital corporations
McKeown, Jamie 2023 Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests
Pragmatics and Society 14:6pp. 824–843 | article
Keywords reflexive metadiscourse | indexicality | affiliative communication | group email | requests
Chou, Isabelle & Kanglong Liu 2023 Style in speech and narration of two English translations of Hongloumeng : A corpus-based multidimensional study
Target 36:1p. 76 | article
Keywords translator style | multidimensional analysis | Hongloumeng | narration | fictional speech
Puig-Mayenco, Eloi, Adel Chaouch-Orozco, Hong Liu & Fernando Martín-Villena 2023 The LexTALE as a measure of L2 global proficiency: A cautionary tale based on a partial replication of Lemhöfer and Broersma (2012)
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:3pp. 299–314 | brief report
Keywords LexTALE | L2 global proficiency | vocabulary size | conceptual replication
Wu, Zhiwei 2023 Towards a corpus-based approach to graphic elements in creative subtitling: A case study of the YouTube channel “Apenjie with Dawang”
Babel 70:1/2pp. 138–163 | article
Keywords creative subtitling | corpus | graphic elements | multimodality | metafunction | mode | sous-titrage créatif | corpus | éléments graphiques | multimodalité | méta-fonction | mode
Yu, Mandy Hoi Man & Dezheng (William) Feng 2023 From “them” to “us”?: The changing representation of China in the South China Morning Post 20 years on
Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 21 pp. | article
Farhoudi, Fateme & Dennis Tay 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
Yu, Yating & Phoenix Lam 2023 Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers: A key keyword analysis of the thematic concepts
Pragmatics and Society 14:5pp. 695–716 | article
Keywords leftover women | corpus linguistics | a key keyword analysis | gender representations | thematic concepts | patriarchy | egalitarianism
Afzaal, Muhammad & Kanglong Liu 2022 Review of Language as symbolic power by Claire Kramsch (2021)
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:1pp. 124–129 | book review
Xu Cui & Li Dechao 2022 Exploring genre variation and simplification in interpreted language from comparable and intermodal perspectives
Babel 68:5pp. 742–770 | article
Keywords genre variation | simplification | comparable | intermodal | variation patterns | variation de genre | simplification | comparable | intermodal | modèles de variation
Ganaah, John, Mark Nartey & Aditi Bhatia 2022 Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings
Journal of Language and Politics 22:1pp. 66–86 | article
Keywords critical discourse studies | political discourse analysis | legitimation strategies | revolutionary discourses | African politics | Jerry John Rawlings
Tsunemoto, Aki, Mark McAndrews, Pavel Trofimovich & Eric Friginal 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
Lin, Minfen & Doreen D. Wu 2022 Rapport building by Chinese celebrities on Weibo and Facebook
Keywords Chinese celebrity discourse | rapport building | relational acts | interactional features | Facebook | Weibo
Stell, Gerald 2022 Afrikaans English as a Southern Hemisphere English: Perspectives from a Namibian bilingual dataset
English World-Wide 44:1pp. 1–33 | article
Keywords South African English | Namibian English | sociophonetics | language contact | Afrikaans
Chen Shukun, Xuan Winfred Wenhui & Yu Hailing 2022 Applying systemic functional linguistics in translation studies: A research synthesis
Babel 68:4pp. 517–545 | article
Keywords systemic functional linguistics | synthesis | meta-analysis | research themes | linguistique fonctionnelle systémique | synthèse | méta-analyse | thème de recherche
Ladegaard, Hans J. & Ka Long Roy Chan 2022 Teachers’ attitudes towards varieties of Hong Kong English: Implications for English language teaching
English World-Wide 44:2pp. 251–275 | article
Keywords Hong Kong English | language attitudes | verbal-guise | nativisation | English language teaching
Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu & David C. S. Li 2022 Introduction to “Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China”
Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1pp. 1–6 | introduction
Ogura, Mieko & William S-Y. Wang 2022 Ambiguity resolution and the evolution of homophones in English
In: English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone & Graeme Trousdale (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358] pp. 61–90
Keywords linguistic evolution | homophones | ambiguity | Zipf’s law | word frequency | diatones | neural substrates
Pan, Molly Xie & Guangwei Hu 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
Pan, Molly Xie & Dennis Tay 2022 Individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video Ads
Metaphor and the Social World 13:2pp. 221–247 | article
Keywords creative metaphors | video ads | identification | individual differences | C-MIPVA
Ding, Hongdi 2022 Interrogatives of Liangshan Yi
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45:1pp. 110–150 | article
Keywords interrogatives | Liangshan Yi | Nuosu | Niesu | Tibeto-Burman
Zhang, Dan 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
Liu, Ming 2022 Stancetaking in Hong Kong political discourse: A corpus-assisted discourse study
Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1pp. 79–98 | article
Keywords stancetaking | political discourse | Hong Kong | public speeches | Chief Executive | critical discourse analysis | corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS)
Luo, Jinru & Dechao Li 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
Ma, Xingcheng & Dechao Li 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
Interpreting 23:2pp. 192–221 | article
Keywords word-order asymmetry | sight translation | eye-tracking | chunking | reordering
Du, Yiwei & Binhua Wang 2021 A multi-dimensional analysis of the representation of conference interpreters in the Chinese media
Translation Spaces 10:2pp. 306–328 | article
Keywords image of conference interpreters | representation in Chinese media | multimodal analysis | thematic and rhetorical analysis
Wu Baimei, Andrew K.F. Cheung & Xing Jie 2021 Learning Chinese political formulaic phraseology from a self-built bilingual United Nations Security Council corpus: A pilot study
Babel 67:4pp. 500–521 | article
Keywords formulaic phraseology | corpus | united nations security council | simultaneous interpreting | phraséologie formelle | corpus | conseil de sécurité des nations unies | interprétation simultanée
Lam, Phoenix W. Y. 2021 Analysing the functions of online destination forums through a corpus-assisted discourse-analytic approach
Pragmatics and Society 12:2pp. 243–265 | article
Keywords Corpus-assisted discourse analysis | Destination forums | Discourse analysis | Keyword analysis | Online travel communication | Tourism discourse | TripAdvisor
Ahrens, Kathleen & Shu-Ping Gong 2021 Contextual congruency and novel metaphor integration
Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1pp. 109–132 | article
Keywords mapping principles | novel metaphor | conventional metaphor contexts | congruency | Mandarin Chinese
Huang, Chu-Ren & Siaw-Fong Chung 2021 Delimiting durative events with manner: A comparative study of two verbs of rushing in Mandarin
Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1pp. 16–59 | article
Keywords verbal semantics | event structure | MARVS | generative lexicon | construction grammar
Jin, Ying & Dennis Tay 2021 Discretion: The final particle ou and its functions in medical advice-giving
Chinese Language and Discourse 12:2pp. 158–180 | article
Keywords  ou | discretion | conversation analysis | interpersonal pragmatics | | 慎重表達 | 會話分析 | 人際語用學
Tay, Dennis & Robert A. Neimeyer 2021 Making meaning with metaphor in grief therapy: A single-session segmental approach
Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1pp. 152–174 | article
Keywords metaphor | meaning making | grief therapy
Ming Liu & Jingxue Ma 2021 The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations: A corpus-assisted discourse study
Journal of Language and Politics 21:1pp. 37–59 | article
Keywords protests | Hong Kong | corpus-assisted discourse study | emotion | fear
Wu, Zhiwei & Zhuojia Chen 2021 A systematic review of experimental research in audiovisual translation 1992–2020
Translation, Cognition & Behavior 4:2pp. 281–304 | article
Keywords systematic review | audiovisual translation | experiment | research synthesis
Ming Liu & Guofeng Wang 2021 An introduction to the special issue on “Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong protests”
Journal of Language and Politics 21:1pp. 1–16 | introduction
Keywords language use | politics | media | critical discourse analysis | corpus linguistics | protests | Hong Kong | extradition bill | news discourse | social media
Chun, Eunjin, Si Chen, Shulin Liu & Angel Chan 2021 Influence of syntactic complexity on second language prediction
In: Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning, Kaan, Edith & Theres Grüter (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 12] pp. 69–90
Cheung, Andrew K. F. 2021 Listeners’ perception of the quality of simultaneous interpreting and perceived dependence on simultaneous interpreting
Interpreting 24:1pp. 38–58 | article
Keywords remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI) | perceived dependence | quality perception | English as a lingua franca
Chow, Kenny K. N. 2022 The influence of repeated interactions on the persuasiveness of simulation: A case study on smoking reduction
Interaction Studies 22:3pp. 373–395 | article
Keywords behavior change | mental simulation | computer simulation | interactive tangible systems | blended causality | embodied cognition
Feng, Dezheng (William) & Mandy Hoi Man Yu 2021 Tradition, modernity, and Chinese masculinity: The multimodal construction of ideal manhood in a reality dating show
Pragmatics 32:2pp. 191–217 | article
Keywords identity | Chinese masculinity | reality dating show | multimodal construction
Xuan, Winfred Wenhui & Dongbing Zhang 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
Bhatia, Aditi & Andrew S. Ross 2021 “We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end”: Hashtag activism in Hong Kong protests
Journal of Language and Politics 21:1pp. 117–142 | article
Keywords hashtag activism | Discourse of Illusion | Twitter | Hong Kong Protests | social media discourse
Ngai, Cindy S. B. 2020 The voice of the translator: A case study of the English translations of The Peony Pavilion
In: Opera and Translation: Unity and diversity, Şerban, Adriana & Kelly Kar Yue Chan (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 153] pp. 159–173
Keywords translator’s voice | translation strategy | ideology | visibility | The Peony Pavilion | classical Chinese opera
Yu, Yating & Dennis Tay 2020 A mixed-method analysis of image-schematic metaphors in describing anger, anxiety, and depression
Metaphor and the Social World 10:2pp. 253–272 | article
Keywords therapeutic themes | image-schematic metaphors | mixed-methods
Zeng, Huiheng, Dennis Tay & Kathleen Ahrens 2020 A multifactorial analysis of metaphors in political discourse: Gendered influence in Hong Kong political speeches
Metaphor and the Social World 10:1pp. 141–168 | article
Keywords political discourse | metaphor | gender | multifactorial analysis
Joo, Ian & Meichun Liu 2020 Caused-Motion and Caused-Position: Syntactic patterns and semantic networks
Studies in Language 45:2pp. 470–498 | article
Keywords Construction Grammar | Caused-Motion Construction | Caused-Position Construction | Locative Inversion | polysemy | English | Mandarin
Gong, Mingyu, Winnie Cheng & Le Cheng 2020 Development of deontic modality in Chinese civil laws: A corpus study
Pragmatics and Society 11:3pp. 337–362 | article
Keywords deontic modality | legal discourse | Chinese civil laws | corpus linguistics | diachronic development
Ma Xingcheng & Andrew K. F. Cheung 2020 Language interference in English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting with and without text
Babel 66:3pp. 434–456 | article
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
Wu, Zhiwei & Zhuojia Chen 2021 Localizing Chinese games for Southeast Asian markets: A multidimensional perspective
Keywords video games | game localization | gamers | Chinese games | Southeast Asia
Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M., Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma 2020 Matthiessen on Halliday: An interview with Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen (Part II)
Language, Context and Text 2:1pp. 187–207 | article
Keywords M. A. K. Halliday | interview | computational linguistics | machine translation | language teaching | language development | sociology | Basil Bernstein | social semiotics | Halliday in China
Shih, Pei Chun 2020 On the translation of Japanese politeness into Cantonese: A case study of anime
Chinese Language and Discourse 11:2pp. 287–305 | article
Keywords translation | dubbing | politeness | Japanese | Cantonese | 翻譯 | 配音 | 禮貌 | 日語 | 廣東話
Tay, Dennis 2020 Surveying views of metaphor vs. literal language in psychotherapy: A factor analysis
Metaphor and the Social World 10:2pp. 273–291 | article
Keywords confirmatory factor analysis | exploratory factor analysis | metaphor functions | experimental survey
Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. 2020 Trinocular views of register: Approaching register trinocularly
Keywords register | dialect | code | rank scale | trinocular vision | stratification | instantiation | registerial cartography | metafunction | systemic functional paradigm
Xiao, Yao & Yi Liu 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
Ma, Xingcheng, Dechao Li & Yu-Yin Hsu 2020 Exploring the impact of word order asymmetry on cognitive load during Chinese–English sight translation: Evidence from eye-movement data
Target 33:1pp. 103–131 | article
Keywords sight translation | word order asymmetry | eye movements | cognitive load
Cheung, Andrew K. F. 2020 Interpreters’ perceived characteristics and perception of quality in interpreting
Interpreting 22:1pp. 35–55 | article
Keywords perceptions of quality | reverse linguistic stereotyping | non-native accents | consecutive interpretation
Xiong, Jiajuan & Chu-Ren Huang 2020 Plurality and definiteness in Chengdu Chinese
Language and Linguistics 21:4pp. 655–687 | article
Keywords plurality | definiteness | ɕiɛ | Chengdu Chinese | di | Cantonese
Chen, Si, Caroline Wiltshire, Bin Li & Ratree Wayland 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
Brosig, Benjamin, Foong Ha Yap & Kathleen Ahrens 2020 Assertion, presumption and presupposition: An account of the erstwhile nominalizer YUM in Khalkha Mongolian
Studies in Language 43:4pp. 896–940 | article
Keywords assertion | presumption | presupposition | inference | evidentiality
Tay, Dennis 2019 Death in a multicultural society: Metaphor, language and religion in Singapore obituaries
Keywords obituaries | death | metaphor | religion | identity construction
Cummings, Louise 2019 Describing the Cookie Theft picture: Sources of breakdown in Alzheimer’s dementia
Pragmatics and Society 10:2pp. 153–176 | article
Keywords Alzheimer’s dementia | aphasia | Cookie Theft picture | discourse | executive function | pragmatics | speech-language pathology | theory of mind
Song, Shuxian & Andrew K. F. Cheung 2019 Disfluency in relay and non-relay simultaneous interpreting: An initial exploration
FORUM 17:1pp. 1–19 | article
Keywords relay interpreting | disfluency | repairs | filled pauses | United Nations | interprétation en relais | disfluence | réparations | pause sonore | Nations Unies
Ho, Victor 2020 Hotel management’s attempts at repairing customers’ trust: The use of apology and denial
Pragmatics and Society 10:4pp. 493–511 | article
Keywords apology | denial | hotel accommodation | TripAdvisor | trust violation | trust repair
Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M., Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma 2019 Matthiessen on Halliday: An interview with Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen (Part I)1
Language, Context and Text 1:2pp. 366–387 | article
Keywords M. A. K. Halliday | appliable linguistics | Wang Li | J. R. Firth | Marxism | Chomskyan linguistics | phonetics | Chinese phonology | language description | typology
Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. 2019 Register in Systemic Functional Linguistics*
Register Studies 1:1pp. 10–41 | article
Keywords cline of instantiation | hierarchy of stratification | semiotic | registerial cartography | semantic variation
Wu, Zhiwei 2019 Text characteristics, perceived difficulty and task performance in sight translation: An exploratory study of university-level students
Interpreting 21:2pp. 196–219 | article
Keywords text characteristics | perceived difficulty | task performance | sight translation
Wang, Shichang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao & Angel Chan 2019 The effect of morphological structure on semantic transparency ratings
Language and Linguistics 20:2pp. 225–255 | article
Keywords Mandarin Chinese | constituent semantic transparency | compound word-formation | headedness | crowdsourcing
Pan, Molly Xie 2019 The effectiveness of the Conceptual Metaphor Approach to English idiom acquisition by young Chinese learners
Metaphor and the Social World 9:1pp. 59–82 | article
Keywords learning outcomes | learning experience | conceptual metaphor theory | second language acquisition
Nartey, Mark 2019 “We must unite now or perish!”: Kwame Nkrumah’s creation of a mythic discourse?
Journal of Language and Politics 18:2pp. 252–271 | article
Keywords Africa | critical discourse analysis | discursive strategy | Kwame Nkrumah | mythic discourse | political discourse analysis
Stell, Gerald & Robert Fuchs 2019 Intergroup dynamics and variation in postcolonial ESL varieties: A preliminary view of Namibian English vowel systems
English World-Wide 40:2pp. 144–169 | article
Keywords sociophonetics | sociolinguistics | language contact | ethnicity | gender | Namibia
Stell, Gerald 2019 Tracing emergent multilectal styles: Forms and functions of code-switching among Ovambos in urban Namibia
Pragmatics 29:3pp. 436–462 | article
Keywords sociolinguistics | code-switching | language contact | style | Namibia
Pease, Adam, Jennifer Cheung Pease & Andrew K. F. Cheung 2018 Formal ontology for discourse analysis of a corpus of court interpreting
Babel 64:4pp. 594–618 | article
Keywords court interpreting | ontology | corpus | Hong Kong | interprétation judiciaire | ontologie | corpus | Hong Kong
Cheung, Andrew K. F. 2018 Non-renditions and the court interpreter’s perceived impartiality: A role-play study
Interpreting 20:2pp. 232–258 | article
Keywords non-rendition | court interpreting | perceived impartiality | role play
Xin, John, Jack Wu, PengPeng Yao & Sijie Shao 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, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam & Galina V. Paramei (eds.) pp. 391–404
Keywords fabric image | image retrieval | multispectral image | fabric features | colour measurement
Feng, Dezheng (William) & Shuo Zhang 2018 Language, attitudes and party politics: The representation of Republicans and Democrats in Presidential weekly addresses
Pragmatics and Society 9:2pp. 232–251 | article
Keywords political discourse analysis | attitudes | Presidential rhetoric | party politics | Barack Obama | weekly addresses
Jenks, Christopher 2018 Meat, guns, and God: Expressions of nationalism in rural America
Linguistic Landscape 4:1pp. 53–71 | article
Keywords ruralscapes | billboards | national identity | Americanness
Yao, Jennifer Shuiying 2018 NP interpretation and disposal variations among the Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shaoxing dialects
Language and Linguistics 19:2pp. 306–332 | article
Keywords NP interpretation | disposal variation | Mandarin | Cantonese | Shaoxing dialect
Kim, Mira & Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen 2017 Ways to move forward in translation studies: A textual perspective
In: Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies, Munday, Jeremy & Meifang Zhang (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 94] pp. 11–26
Keywords textual meaning | thematic progression | Theme | translation choices
Fan, Ying 2017 Excessive serial verb construction: A quasi-resultative serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese
Language and Linguistics 18:2pp. 201–227 | article
Keywords serial verb construction | excessive | nucleus | core
Ahn, Mikyung & Foong Ha Yap 2018 From middle to passive: A diachronic analysis of Korean -eci constructions
Diachronica 34:4pp. 437–469 | article
Keywords middle voice | passive voice | Korean -eci | valence-change phenomena | diachrony of voice markers
Cheung, Andrew K. F. 2017 Non-renditions in court interpreting: A corpus-based study
Babel 63:2pp. 174–199 | article
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
Abbou, Julie & Angela Tse 2016 A hermeneutical approach to gender linguistic materiality: Semiotic and structural categorisation of gender in Hong Kong Cantonese
Keywords Cantonese | contrastive | English | forms | gender shift | grammaticalisation | interlingual dynamics | semiotics | structure
Tay, Dennis 2017 A variational approach to deliberate metaphors
Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:2pp. 277–298 | article
Keywords log-linear analysis | deliberate metaphor | metaphor variation
Chor, Winnie Oi-Wan, Foong Ha Yap & Tak-Sum Wong 2017 Chinese interrogative particles as talk coordinators at the right periphery: A discourse–pragmatic perspective
Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17:2pp. 178–207 | article
Keywords Cantonese ho2 | common ground marker | affirmation marker | interactional particles | discourse coherence model | interrogative particles
Warren, Martin & Maggie Leung 2016 Do collocational frameworks have local grammars?
Keywords phraseology | patterns of co-selection | regulative texts | local grammars | collocational frameworks
Bhatia, Aditi 2016 Discursive construction of the ‘key’ moment in the Umbrella Movement
Journal of Language and Politics 15:5pp. 549–566 | article
Keywords discursive illusion | key moments | media
Kim, Mira & Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen 2015 Introduction
Target 27:3pp. 335–350 | article
Keywords thematic progression | Theme | textual meaning | translation choices
Tay, Dennis 2015 Metaphor in case study articles on Chinese university counseling service websites
Chinese Language and Discourse 6:1pp. 28–56 | article
Keywords Chinese context | counseling | e-health | Metaphor
Cheung, Andrew K.F. 2015 Scapegoating the interpreter for listeners’ dissatisfaction with their level of understanding: An experimental study
Interpreting 17:1pp. 46–63 | article
Keywords scapegoat | Cantonese | simultaneous interpreting | comprehension | accent
Xu, Minhui & Chi Yu Chu 2015 Translators’ professional habitus and the adjacent discipline: The case of Edgar Snow
Target 27:2pp. 173–191 | article
Keywords professional habitus | adjacent discipline | Edgar Snow | journalist translator
Cheung Andrew Kay-fan 2014 Anglicized numerical denominations as a coping tactic for simultaneous interpreting from English into Mandarin Chinese: An experimental study
FORUM 12:1pp. 1–22 | article
Keywords Simultaneous interpreting | anglicization | numerical denominations | cognitive resources allocation | English into Chinese
Tay, Dennis 2014 At the heart of cognition, communication, and language: The value of psychotherapy to metaphor study
Metaphor and the Social World 4:1pp. 48–64 | article
Keywords counseling | discourse career | metaphor | psychotherapy
Tay, Dennis 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
Ahn, Mikyung & Foong Ha Yap 2014 On the development of Korean SAY evidentials and their extended pragmatic functions
Diachronica 31:3pp. 299–336 | article
Keywords hearsay evidential markers | epistemic strength | phonological reduction | diachronic corpus analysis | finiteness | verbal elision | main-clause ellipsis | insubordination
Cheung, Andrew K. F 2014 The use of reported speech and the perceived neutrality of court interpreters
Interpreting 16:2pp. 191–208 | article
Keywords reported speech | court interpreting | speech attribution | perceived neutrality | role-play
Cheung, Andrew K. F 2013 Non-native accents and simultaneous interpreting quality perceptions
Interpreting 15:1pp. 25–47 | article
Keywords non-native accent | quality perception | simultaneous interpreting | Cantonese
Jiang, Hong 2013 The interpreter’s glossary in simultaneous interpreting: A survey
Interpreting 15:1pp. 74–93 | article
Keywords simultaneous interpreting | survey | terminology | glossary
Cheung Andrew Kay-fan 2012 Omission in Simultaneous Interpreting: Word order differences
FORUM 10:2pp. 19–33 | article
Keywords Simultaneous interpreting | coverb | media interpreting | Effort Model | omission
Cheung, Andrew K. F 2012 The use of reported speech by court interpreters in Hong Kong
Interpreting 14:1pp. 73–91 | article
Keywords latitude | direct speech | court interpreting | corpus | Cantonese
Grunow-Hårsta, Karen 2011 Innovation in nominalization in Magar: A Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal
In: Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 96] pp. 215–254
Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona 2011 Introduction: Nominalization strategies in Asian languages
In: Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 96] pp. 1–58
Wakefield, John C. 2012 Disentangling the meanings of two Cantonese evidential particles
Chinese Language and Discourse 2:2pp. 250–293 | article
Keywords Cantonese | sentence-final particles | discourse particles | epistemic marker | natural semantic metalanguage | evidential marker
Wu, Doreen D. & Agatha Man-kwan Chung 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
Lee, Tong King 2011 The death of the translator in machine translation: A bilingual poetry project
Target 23:1p. 92 | article
Keywords Hsia Yü | death of the translator | machine translation | dissemination | différance
Yap, Foong Ha, Fanny Pik-ling Choi & Kam-siu Cheung 2010 Delexicalizing di: How a Chinese noun has evolved into an attitudinal nominalizer
In: Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research, Van linden, An, Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Kristin Davidse & Hubert Cuyckens (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 94] pp. 63–92
Kong, Judy Wai Ping 2010 Deborah Cao, Translating Law
Babel 56:3pp. 294–298 | book review
Kuo, Sai-hua & Doreen D. Wu 2009 Media discourse in Greater China
Cheung, Andrew Kay-fan 2009 Numbers in Simultaneous Interpreting: An experimental study
FORUM 7:2pp. 61–88 | article
Keywords approximation | omission | erroneous rendition | Simultaneous interpreting | numbers
Evans, Stephen 2009 The evolution of the English-language speech community in Hong Kong
English World-Wide 30:3pp. 278–301 | article
Keywords Dynamic Model | post-colonial English | Hong Kong | language contact | complaint tradition | Chinese | speech community | Cantonese
Cheung Andrew Kay-Fan 2008 Simultaneous Interpreting of Numbers: An experimental study
FORUM 6:2pp. 23–38 | article
Keywords Simultaneous interpreting | number | training | experiment | English into Chinese
Forsyth, Richard, David D. Clarke & Phoenix Lam 2008 Timelines, talk and transcription: A chronometric approach to simultaneous speech
Keywords corpus | Maptask | simultaneous speech | speech segmentation | transcription
Cheung, Andrew Kay-fan 2007 The Effectiveness of Summary Training in Consecutive Interpreting (CI) Delivery
FORUM 5:2pp. 1–23 | article
Keywords Consecutive interpreting | performance assessment | interpreting pedagogy | summary exercise | research validity and reliability
Warren, Martin 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
Cheng, Winnie 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
Cheng, Winnie, Chris Greaves & Martin Warren 2006 From n-gram to skipgram to concgram
Keywords concgram | constituency and positional variations | contiguous and non-contiguous word associations | corpus linguistics
Cheng, Winnie & Martin Warren 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
Wan, Ngan Yuen & Judy Wai Ping Kong 1997 The Effectiveness of Electronic Dictionaries as a Tool for Translators
Babel 43:2pp. 151–165 | article
Stell, Gerald English in Namibia: A socio-historical account
Keywords Namibian English | colonial language policy | language policy | multilingualism | nativization