Lisa Lehnen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lisa Lehnen is involved.
Articles
2023 Review of Bolton, Botha & Kirkpatrick (2020): The Handbook of Asian Englishes English World-Wide 44:2, pp. 303–311 | Review
2020 Chapter 12. “The future elected government should fully represent the interests of Hongkong people”: Diachronic change in the use of modalising expressions in Hong Kong English between 1928 and 2018 Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context, Hohaus, Pascal and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 311–342 | Chapter
The modal system of English in its development provides an ideal perspective on language variation and change. Since the sociocultural and socio-historical situation in specific postcolonial communities promotes diversity among New Englishes, it is likely to also affect their modal systems. In… read more
2020 Hongkongites, Hong Kongers, Hong Kong Belongers ? Tracing identity (re)constructions in news discourse in Hong Kong from 1903 to 1999 English World-Wide 41:3, pp. 295–324 | Article
To find empirical evidence for Schneider’s (2007) periodisation for the emergence of Hong Kong English, Evans (2014, 2015) scrutinised various historical documents, such as newspapers, council proceedings and jury lists. Taking the increasing use of the terms Hongkonger and Hongkong people… read more