City University of Hong Kong
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with City University of Hong Kong plays a role.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lexical semantics towards the big-data era: Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 14:1 (2023)
Edited by Meichun Liu & Chunyu Kit
[Chinese Language and Discourse: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 14:1] 2023. | special issueSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Recurrent Gestures: Special issue of Gesture 20:2 (2021)
Edited by Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem
[Gesture, 20:2] 2022. | special issueSubjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies | Signed languagesCognitive psychology
Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest. Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 15:5 (2016)
Edited by John Flowerdew & Rodney H. Jones
[Journal of Language and Politics, 15:5] 2016. | special issueSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Researching Specialized Languages
Edited by Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez & Pascual Pérez-Paredes
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 47] 2011. viii, 238 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Lexicography | TerminologyCorpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics: Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:3 (2006)
Edited by John Flowerdew & Michaela Mahlberg
[International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 11:3] 2006. | special issueSubjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Critically Constituting Organization
Andrew Chan
[Advances in Organization Studies, 5] 2001. xvi, 150 pp. | monographSubjects Industrial & organizational studies
Hedging in Scientific Research Articles
Ken Hyland
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 54] 1998. x, 308 pp. | monographSubjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Natural language processing | Pragmatics
2023 L3 prosody: Cross-linguistic influence of prosodic features in Mandarin and English by Cantonese multilinguals
Keywords pronunciation learning | L2 phonology | multilingualism | cross-linguistic influence | prosody
2023 Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity: A case study based on Huawei annual reports
Keywords rhetorical strategies | corporate identity construction | corporate discourse | annual reports | identity studies
2023 Metaphorical polysemy of the Chinese color term hēi
黑 “black”: A corpus-based cognitive semantic analysis with Behavioral Profiles
Keywords metaphorical polysemy | basic color terms | Behavioral Profiles | cluster analysis | Mandarin Chinese
2023 The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media: A corpus-assisted critical approach
Keywords corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis | COVID-19 vaccines | crisis discourse | the Chinese and the American news media
2022 (Re)chronotopizing the pandemic: Migrant domestic workers’ calls for social change
Keywords chronotope | activism | materiality | morality | migrant domestic workers (MDWs) | COVID-19
2022 Chronotopic resolution, embodied subjectivity, and collective learning: A sociolinguistic theory of survival
Keywords COVID-19 | chronotopes | collective learning | survival | scales | fractality
2022 The Multifunctionality of Mandarin Diào 掉
: A cross-linguistic perspective
Keywords The Mandarin diào
| multifunctionality | semantic evolution | grammaticalization | completive | 普通话“掉” | 多功能性 | 语义演变 | 语法化 | 完结体
2022 A study on the semantic change of the Chinese negative adverb Bùshèn (不甚)
Keywords semantics | Chinese | degree adverb | analogy |
Bùshèn
|
Bùshèng
| 语义 | 汉语 | 程度副词 | 类比 | 不甚 | 不胜
2022 What more can empirical contextual data tell about the real usage of words and collocations?: A case study of the qià (恰) cluster with Chinese Gigaword data
Keywords corpus-based distributional analysis | qià (恰) cluster | usage pattern | collocational preference | Chinese Gigaword
2022 Recurrent gestures throughout bodies, languages, and cultural practices
Keywords recurrent gestures | diversity | Kendon’s continuum | practical actions
2022 The feel of a recurrent gesture: Embedding the Vertical Palm within a gift-giving episode in China (aka the ‘seesaw battle’)
Keywords gift giving | China | recurrent gestures | Vertical Palm gesture | the enactive approach | participatory sense-making
2021 The Mandarin ba-construction in school-age heritage speakers and their parental input
Keywords Mandarin | heritage | input | syntax | lexicon
2021 Shell nouns as register-specific discourse devices
Keywords register formality | spoken discourse | written discourse | field-tenor-mode complex | ICE-GB
2020 A study of the development of the Chinese correlative comparative construction from the perspective of
constructionalization
Keywords Chinese | Grammaticalization | constructionalization | correlative comparative construction | incremental comparative construction | constructional networks | schemas
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 Identities and beliefs across time and space: A case study of a university student’s second language learning trajectory
Keywords identity | belief | agency | second language learning | Hong Kong
2020 Swearwords reinterpreted: New variants and uses by young Chinese netizens on social media platforms
Keywords swearwords | social media | semantic change | discourse community | contemporary Chinese | solidarity
2020 The pragmatics of text-emoji co-occurrences on Chinese social media
Keywords text-emoji co-occurrence | metafunctions | multimodal analysis | componential patterns | pragmatic functions | speech acts
2020 The syntax of Mandarin dative alternation: An argument from quantifier scope interpretation
Keywords dative alternation | dative construction | shift construction | quantifier scope | Mandarin
2020 Exhaustivity and bare numeral phrases in Mandarin
Keywords bare numeral phrase | quantity interpretation | exhaustivity | cumulativity | focus | sufficiency
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
2019 From caused-motion to spatial configuration: Placement verbs in Mandarin
Keywords Placement verbs in Mandarin | caused motion | spatial configuration | causal chain | lexical-constructional approach
2019 Serialized literary translation in Hong Kong Chinese newspapers: A case study of The Chinese Mail (1904–1908)
Keywords serialized translation |
The Chinese Mail
| detective fiction | relay translation
2019 Scalar implicatures and the semantics of wh-indefinites in Vietnamese
In: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Vietnamese linguistics[Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] pp. 181–212
Keywords scalar implicature | modality | alternative semantics | indefinites | existential wh-phrases
2019 Engineering registers in the 21st century: SFL perspectives on online publications
Keywords academic English | engineering register | corpus linguistics | systemic functional linguistics | research article genre | English as a lingua franca | online publication contexts | word frequencies | n-grams | frequent n-grams in context
2018 The econo-linguistics approach to the study of investor sentiment: Theoretical trends and research possibilities in Pan-Chinese markets
Keywords econo-linguistics | terminology | financial metaphors | Pan-Chinese | investor behaviour | 經濟語言學 | 術語學 | 財經隠喻 | 泛華語地區 | 投資行為
2018 The syntax and semantics of descriptive V-de constructions: A primary predication analysis
Keywords descriptive V-de construction | adjectival predication | secondary predication | nominalization | event semantics
2018 Uncivil Twitter: A sociopragmatic analysis
Keywords freedom of speech | impoliteness | language aggression | hate speech | context collapse | implicatures
2019 Spectrums of thought in gesture: Using gestures to analyze concepts in philosophy
Keywords gesture | conceptualization | depiction | construal | philosophy
2017 Chinese aspect marker -le and its acquisition by American English speakers
Keywords aspect marker -le
| acquisition of Chinese | the Aspect Hypothesis | verb category
2017 Convergences and divergences between studies on translator training and interpreter training: Findings from a database of English journal articles
Keywords training | Translation Studies | Interpreting Studies | research themes | research methods
2017 Skilling the nation, empowering the citizen: Neoliberal instantiations in Singapore’s lifelong learning policy
Keywords neoliberal subjectivity | policy discourse | policy communication | lifelong learning | labour policy | discourse analysis | metaphor | Singapore
2016 Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park
In: Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements[Benjamins Current Topics, 83] pp. 77–98
Keywords allusion | linguistic landscapes | mediated discourse analysis | mobility | Occupy Movement | social media | space
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 Organizing TCUs in a turn: Reordering and parenthesizing as operations for self-initiated same-turn repair in Mandarin conversation
Keywords conversational repair | parenthesizing | self-initiated same-turn repair | reordering | Mandarin conversation | conversation analysis
2016 A historiographical approach to Hong Kong Occupy: Focus on a critical moment
Keywords Hong Kong | Occupy movement | historiographical approach | critical discourse analysis | intertextuality | argumentation strategies
2015 Managing terminology in commercial environments
Keywords Natural language processing | Terminology data base | Terminology management | Translation
2016 Directive-giving and grammatical forms: Mitigation devices in a medical laboratory setting
Keywords Cantonese | workplace interaction | Directives | grammar and interaction | mitigation devices
2015 The Bound Variable Hierarchy and Donkey Anaphora in Mandarin Chinese
Keywords Bound Variable Hierarchy | Mandarin Chinese | unselective binding | E-type pronouns | Donkey anaphora
2014 Learning and Teaching Translation in an Age of Mass Higher Education: A quantitative survey of the sub-degree translation programme graduates in Hong Kong
Keywords Translation education | mass higher education | Hong Kong | quantitative survey | learning outcome.
2015 Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park
Keywords linguistic landscapes | space | mobility | allusion | social media | mediated discourse analysis | Occupy Movement
2013 Overuse or underuse: A corpus study of English phrasal verb use by Chinese, British and American university students
Keywords leaner corpus studies | native novice corpora | phrasal verbs
2013 The prosody of formulaic expression in the IBM/Lancaster Spoken English Corpus
Keywords idioms, phraseology | formulaic language | speech prosody | prosodically annotated corpora
2012 Beyond Hobson Jobson
: Towards a new lexicography for Indian English
Keywords Indian English | dictionaries on historical principles | lexicography
2012 Historical change of word classes
Keywords word class | grammaticalization | lexicalization | diachronic universals | Tibeto-Burman | Kam-Tai | Miao-Yao
2011 A comparative study of introductory it in research articles across eight disciplines
Keywords introductory it | corpus analysis | evaluation | disciplinary variation | research articles | research writing
2012 In search of poetic discourse of classical Chinese poetry: An imagery-based stylistic analysis of Liu Yong and Su Shi
Keywords classical Chinese poetry | imagery | poetic discourse | text classification | corpus | Su Shi | Liu Yong
2010 Insertion as a self-repair device and its interactional motivations in Chinese conversation
Keywords self-repair | conversational repair | Conversation Analysis | interactional function | insertion | Mandarin
2010 Patient participation: Questions asked by Cantonese- and English-speaking patients in a prenatal genetic counselling clinic in Hong Kong
Keywords conversation analysis | prenatal genetic counselling | patient questions | medical interaction | patient participation
2006 Review of Corpus-based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource Book by T. McEnery, R. Xiao & Y. Tono ((2006))
Keywords adjectives | un- | negation | in- | CobuildDirect Corpus | non- | dis-
2006 Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpus
Keywords coherence | learner corpus | learner error | error analysis | signalling noun | cohesion | lexical cohesion
2004 Clause alignment for Hong Kong legal texts: A lexical-based approach
Keywords text alignment | example-based machine translation | clause alignment
2005 Repetition and signification: A study of textual accountability and perlocutionary effect in literary translation
Keywords vertical translation unit | leitmotif | functional linguistics | text linguistics | literariness | partisan literature | speech act theory | intention | artistic effect | discourse awareness
2004 On detecting borrowing: Distance-based and character-based approaches
Keywords loanwords | cladistics | lexicostatistics | comparative linguistics and reconstruction | Chinese
2003 Critique of pure technology
Keywords humane interface | hermeneutics | ethics | social impact | cognitive technology | philosophy of technology | cognition | mind | relevance | pragmatics
2003 Introduction: Pragmatics of Technology
Keywords cognition | prostheses | design methodology | tool design | Cognitive Technology | pragmatics | mind
2003 Modeling a cognitive tool for teaching the addition/subtraction of common fractions
Keywords cognitive tool (CT) | common fraction | evaluation | cognitive task analysis
