Hong Kong Polytechnic University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Hong Kong Polytechnic University*

Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching

Edited by Shaofeng Li

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 16] 2024. | edited volume

Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests. Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics (21:1)

Edited by Guofeng Wang & Ming Liu

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Journal of Language and Politics, 21:1] 2022. | special issue

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

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Chinese Language and Discourse: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 13:1] 2022. | special issue

Metaphor in Mental Healthcare: Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 (2020)

Edited by Dennis Tay

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies

[Metaphor and the Social World, 10:2] 2020. | special issue

The pragmatics of professional discourse: Special Issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:1 (2016)

Edited by Winnie Cheng

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics and Society, 7:1] 2016. | special issue

Metaphor in Psychotherapy: A descriptive and prescriptive analysis

Dennis Tay

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 1] 2013. vii, 211 pp. | monograph

Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives

Edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona

Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 96] 2011. xvii, 796 pp. | edited volume

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

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 19:2] 2009. | special issue

A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)

Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves & Martin Warren

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 32] 2008. xi, 325 pp. (incl. CD-Rom) | monograph

Features of Naturalness in Conversation

Martin Warren

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 152] 2006. x, 272 pp. | monograph

Intercultural Conversation

Winnie Cheng

Subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 118] 2003. xii, 279 pp. | monograph

Conversational Dominance and Gender: A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts

Hiroko Itakura

Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 89] 2001. xviii, 231 pp. | monograph

Ho, Wing Yee Jenifer 2026 Transcription tools

In: Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Kessler, Matt (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] pp. 412–432

Blache, Philippe, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni & Alessandro Lenci 2026 Composing or not composing?: Towards Distributional Construction Grammar

Keywords: compositionality | construction grammar | distributional semantics | comprehension | hybrid access to the meaning

Constructions and Frames | Online First Publication, 49 pp. | article

Liu, Yi & Dechao Li 2026 Interpreting lexical bundles: Discourse function and correspondence patterns in Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting

Keywords: four-word lexical bundles | simultaneous interpreting | parallel corpus | correspondence pattern | segments lexicaux figés de quatre mots | interprétation simultanée | corpus parallèle | schéma de correspondance

Babel 72:2 pp. 198–224 | article | open access

Bhatia, Aditi 2026 India’s war on its history of humiliation: A Discourse of Illusion approach

Keywords: Hindu nationalism | Discourse of Illusion | ideology | metaphor | social categorization | habitus | collective memories

In: Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 355] p. 96

Li, Wenjing & Xiaolu Wang 2026 Integrating subtitling training into a general translation programme to enhance students’ translation competence in Hong Kong

Keywords: audiovisual translation (AVT) | translation competence | subtitling training | OOONA | translator education | traduction audiovisuelle (AVT) | compétence en traduction | formation au sous-titrage | OOONA | formation des traducteurs

Babel | Online First Publication, 27 pp. | article

Chen, Hazel Shu 2025 Review of Routledge Handbook of East Asian Translation edited by Ruselle Meade, Claire Shih & Kyung-Hye Kim (2025)

Babel 71:5 pp. 703–707 | book review | open access

Li, Wenjing 2025 Review of Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation: A Descriptive Study of Chinese Translations of Huckleberry Finn, Tess, and Pygmalion by Jing Yu (2024)

Target 37:1 pp. 139–144 | book review | open access

Schluter, Anne Ambler 2025 Location! location! location! (and transcultural capital): Reframing peripherality as opportunity at an Istanbul kebab shop

Keywords: pan-Kurdish ethnonationalism | periphery | language choice | identity | ideology | center-periphery relations

In: Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] pp. 36–65

Xie Pan, Molly & Dennis Tay 2025 Communicating socio-psychological meanings: Metaphors in Hong Kong press conferences on measures against COVID-19

Keywords: metaphor | press conferences | conceptualization | socio-psychological meanings

In: COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] pp. 190–215

Tao, Yuan & Dechao Li 2025 Beyond conformity and empowerment: Redefining Jo March in early Chinese translations of Little Women

Keywords: characterization model | prior knowledge | narratorial/translatorial control | self-/other-presentation | explicitness/implicitness | Little Women

Target 37:3 pp. 384–413 | article

Liu, Ming, Cindy S. B. Ngai & Han Li 2025 Entrepreneur or capitalist?: Discursive constructions of a deceased business leader in Chinese digital mourning discourse

Keywords: mourning | business leader | social media | corpus-assisted discourse study | text mining | entrepreneur | capitalist | discourse-conceptual analysis

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article | open access

Chigbu, Godswill Uchechukwu & Kathleen Ahrens 2025 Metaphorical framing of democracy : How Nigerian military dictators and civilian leaders talk to gain legitimacy

Keywords: democracy | mapping principles, discourse-conceptual analysis | metaphor | military discourse | civilian discourse | legitimation | pre-legitimation | conceptual flip-siding | Nigerian political discourse

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 25 pp. | article | open access

Lu, Wen & Man-Shan Hui 2025 Passing is giving: The origin and historical development of the polyfunctional morpheme ti⁴² in Tunxi Hui Chinese

Keywords: grammaticalization | semantic extension | polyfunctionality | give | Sinitic languages | Tunxi Hui

Journal of Historical Linguistics | Online First Publication, 42 pp. | article

Catedral, Lydia, Danilo Reyes, Zhaohe Shi & Eunice Wong 2025 “We are workers, we are not slaves”: The importance of grassroots discourses on decent work for migrant domestic workers

Keywords: international norms | grassroots organizations | migrant workers | domestic work | discourse

Journal of Language and Politics 25:3 pp. 459–480 | article | open access

Nervino, Esterina, Jiaying Wang & Chaojun Ma 2025 Self-mentions and stakeholders in climate change discourse: The case of banks

Keywords: sustainability discourse | climate change | self-mentions | banks | sustainable finance

Language and Dialogue 15:1 pp. 56–80 | article

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

In: Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching, Li, Shaofeng (ed.) [Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 16] pp. 10–49

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

In: Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching, Li, Shaofeng (ed.) [Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 16] pp. 52–83

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

In: Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching, Li, Shaofeng (ed.) [Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 16] pp. 161–195

Liu, Xinyuan, Weiqing Xiao & Kanglong Liu 2025 Analyzing research trends in localization: A comparative systematic review of journal articles in English and Chinese (2012–2023)

Keywords: localization | new translation practices | literature review | methodology | translation studies

Digital Translation 11:2 p. 91 | article | open access

Ding, Hongdi & Sicong Dong 2024 Interrogatives of reason in Tibeto-Burman languages of Sichuan

Keywords: interrogatives of reason | verbal interrogatives | Tibeto-Burman languages | purpose & cause | typology

Language and Linguistics 25:2 pp. 187–233 | article | open access

Xu, Han 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

Translation and Interpreting Studies 19:2 pp. 257–276 | article | open access

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

Keywords: resistance | elections | social media | positive discourse analysis | Nigerian politics

Journal of Language and Politics 24:2 pp. 328–347 | article | open access

Cheung, Lok Ming Eric & Huiwen Shi 2025 Co-creating stories with generative AI: Reflections from undergraduate students of a storytelling service-learning subject in Hong Kong

Keywords: experiential learning | service-learning | story creation | English language learning | writing with GenAI

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 pp. 259–283 | article | open access

Ma, Xingcheng & Dechao Li 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

Translation and Interpreting Studies 19:1 pp. 105–131 | article

Liu, Hong & Adel Chaouch-Orozco 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

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:5 pp. 759–773 | article

Sun, Sanjun, Lulu Wang & Qiru Zhang 2025 Examining reliability in translation quality assessment: An empirical study of paper- and computer-based scoring

Keywords: translation assessment | paper-based scoring | computer-based scoring | rater reliability

Translation and Interpreting Studies 19:3 pp. 405–431 | article

Xu, Cui & Dechao Li 2024 More spoken or more translated?: Exploring the known unknowns of simultaneous interpreting from a multidimensional analysis perspective

Keywords: linguistic features | simultaneous interpreting | multidimensional analysis | LegCo+ corpus | mediation | modality

Target 36:3 pp. 445–480 | article

Daly, John Scott 2024 The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant: Contrasting figures of personhood in YouTube comments

Keywords: political discourse | social media discourse | social class | enregisterment | figures of personhood | mobility | neoliberalism

Journal of Language and Politics 24:4 pp. 593–615 | article | open access

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]

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

Language and Linguistics 25:3 pp. 535–575 | article | open access

Gu, James Chonglong 2023 Review of Choreographies of Multilingualism: Writing and language ideology in Singapore by Tong King Lee (2022)

Linguistic Landscape 9:4 pp. 442–444 | book review

Ke, Sihui (Echo), Rui Jin & Keiko Koda 2024 Adult L2 learners’ morphological sensitivity in a morphosyllabic language

Keywords: morphological processing | Chinese | word naming | second language proficiency

The Mental Lexicon 18:3 pp. 446–471 | article | open access

Liu, Ming & Yanxi Lu 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

Pragmatics and Society 15:3 pp. 471–494 | article

McKeown, Jamie 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

Pragmatics and Society 14:6 pp. 824–843 | article

Gu, Chonglong & Binhua Wang 2023 From “Within” to “Beyond” in interpreting studies: Conceptualizing interpreting as a socio-political and historical shaping force and a source of inter/trans-disciplinary conviviality

Keywords: interpreting studies | outward turn | interdisciplinarity | outward-looking | interprétologie | virage vers l’extérieur | interdisciplinarité | tourné vers l’extérieur

Babel 70:6 pp. 783–805 | article

Chou, Isabelle & Kanglong Liu 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

Target 36:1 p. 76 | article

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)

Keywords: LexTALE | L2 global proficiency | vocabulary size | conceptual replication

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:3 pp. 299–314 | brief report

Wu, Zhiwei 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

Babel 70:1/2 pp. 138–163 | article

Wang, Wanwen & Jonathan Ngai 2023 “You look like my 14-year-old daughter”: A corpus-based study of sexist language in everyday sexism Twitter stories

Keywords: sexist language | sexist markers | overt sexism | indirect sexism | stereotype | hashtag feminism

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 13:2 pp. 155–181 | article

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

Keywords: South China Morning Post | Hong Kong | representation of China | diachronic corpus analysis

Journal of Language and Politics 24:2 pp. 280–300 | 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

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:1 p. 99 | article

Yu, Yating & Phoenix Lam 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

Pragmatics and Society 14:5 pp. 695–716 | article

Stell, Gerald 2022 Review of Englishes in Post-Independence Namibia. An Investigation of Variety Status and its Implications for English Language Teaching by Helene Steigertahl (2019)

English World-Wide 43:3 pp. 382–389 | book review

Afzaal, Muhammad & Kanglong Liu 2022 Review of Language as symbolic power by Claire Kramsch (2021)

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:1 pp. 124–129 | book review

Gu, James Chonglong 2022 Review of Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-Shaping of Ideological Discourse by M. Cristina Caimotto & Rachele Raus (2022)

Translation in Society 2:1 pp. 119–122 | book review

Xu Cui & Li Dechao 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

Babel 68:5 pp. 742–770 | article

Ganaah, John, Mark Nartey & Aditi Bhatia 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

Journal of Language and Politics 22:1 pp. 66–86 | article

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

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 9:2 pp. 234–262 | article

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

Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 p. 7 | article

Stell, Gerald 2022 Afrikaans English as a Southern Hemisphere English: Perspectives from a Namibian bilingual dataset

Keywords: South African English | Namibian English | sociophonetics | language contact | Afrikaans

English World-Wide 44:1 pp. 1–33 | article

Chen Shukun, Xuan Winfred Wenhui & Yu Hailing 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

Babel 68:4 pp. 517–545 | article

Ladegaard, Hans J. & Ka Long Roy Chan 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

English World-Wide 44:2 pp. 251–275 | article

Chew, Samuel K. M. & Andrew K. F. Cheung 2022 Media interpreting into Malaysian sign language: Adaptations and strategies

Keywords: Malaysian Sign Language | remote simultaneous interpretation | crisis interpreting | emergency broadcast | accessibility | 말레이시아 수어 | 원격 동시통역 | 위기통역 | 비상방송 | 접근성

InContext 2:2 pp. 112–136 | article | open access

Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu & David C. S. Li 2022 Introduction to “Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China”

Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 pp. 1–6 | introduction

Ogura, Mieko & William S-Y. Wang 2022 Ambiguity resolution and the evolution of homophones in English

Keywords: linguistic evolution | homophones | ambiguity | Zipf’s law | word frequency | diatones | neural substrates

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

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

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1 p. 87 | article

Pan, Molly Xie & Dennis Tay 2022 Individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video Ads

Keywords: creative metaphors | video ads | identification | individual differences | C-MIPVA

Metaphor and the Social World 13:2 pp. 221–247 | article

Ding, Hongdi 2022 Interrogatives of Liangshan Yi

Keywords: interrogatives | Liangshan Yi | Nuosu | Niesu | Tibeto-Burman

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45:1 pp. 110–150 | article

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

Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 p. 99 | article

Liu, Ming 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)

Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 pp. 79–98 | article

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

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:1 pp. 31–58 | article

Du, Xiangtao & Kanglong Liu 2021 Review of Machine Learning in Translation Corpora Processing by K. Wołk (2019)

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:2 pp. 298–303 | book review

Liu, Kanglong & Muhammad Afzaal 2021 Review of The Politics of Translation in International Relations by Zeynep Gulsah Capan, Filipe dos Reis & Maj Grasten (2021)

Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 pp. 186–189 | book review

Stell, Gerald 2021 English in Namibia: A socio-historical account

Keywords: Namibian English | colonial language policy | language policy | multilingualism | nativization

In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G65] pp. 21–42

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

Keywords: word-order asymmetry | sight translation | eye-tracking | chunking | reordering

Interpreting 23:2 pp. 192–221 | article

Du, Yiwei & Binhua Wang 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

Translation Spaces 10:2 pp. 306–328 | article

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

Keywords: formulaic phraseology | corpus | united nations security council | simultaneous interpreting | phraséologie formelle | corpus | conseil de sécurité des nations unies | interprétation simultanée

Babel 67:4 pp. 500–521 | article

Lam, Phoenix W. Y. 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

Pragmatics and Society 12:2 pp. 243–265 | article

Ahrens, Kathleen & Shu-Ping Gong 2021 Contextual congruency and novel metaphor integration

Keywords: mapping principles | novel metaphor | conventional metaphor contexts | congruency | Mandarin Chinese

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1 pp. 109–132 | article

Huang, Chu-Ren & Siaw-Fong Chung 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

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1 pp. 16–59 | article

Jin, Ying & Dennis Tay 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

Chinese Language and Discourse 12:2 pp. 158–180 | article

Tay, Dennis & Robert A. Neimeyer 2021 Making meaning with metaphor in grief therapy: A single-session segmental approach

Keywords: metaphor | meaning making | grief therapy

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1 pp. 152–174 | article

Ming Liu & Jingxue Ma 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

Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 pp. 37–59 | article

Wu, Zhiwei & Zhuojia Chen 2021 A systematic review of experimental research in audiovisual translation 1992–2020

Keywords: systematic review | audiovisual translation | experiment | research synthesis

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 4:2 pp. 281–304 | article

Ming Liu & Guofeng Wang 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

Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 pp. 1–16 | introduction

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

Keywords: remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI) | perceived dependence | quality perception | English as a lingua franca

Interpreting 24:1 pp. 38–58 | article

Chow, Kenny K. N. 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

Interaction Studies 22:3 pp. 373–395 | article

Feng, Dezheng (William) & Mandy Hoi Man Yu 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

Pragmatics 32:2 pp. 191–217 | article | open access

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

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:1 pp. 29–53 | article

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

Keywords: hashtag activism | Discourse of Illusion | Twitter | Hong Kong Protests | social media discourse

Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 pp. 117–142 | article

Todorova, Marija 2020 Interpreting for refugees: Lessons learned from the field

Keywords: refugees | interpreting | mediation | emergency

In: Interpreting in legal and healthcare settings: Perspectives on research and training, Ng, Eva N. S. & Ineke H. M. Crezee (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 151] pp. 63–82

Ngai, Cindy S. B. 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

In: Opera and Translation: Unity and diversity, Şerban, Adriana & Kelly Kar Yue Chan (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 153] pp. 159–173

Yu, Yating & Dennis Tay 2020 A mixed-method analysis of image-schematic metaphors in describing anger, anxiety, and depression

Keywords: therapeutic themes | image-schematic metaphors | mixed-methods

Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 pp. 253–272 | article

Zeng, Huiheng, Dennis Tay & Kathleen Ahrens 2020 A multifactorial analysis of metaphors in political discourse: Gendered influence in Hong Kong political speeches

Keywords: political discourse | metaphor | gender | multifactorial analysis

Metaphor and the Social World 10:1 pp. 141–168 | article

Joo, Ian & Meichun Liu 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

Studies in Language 45:2 pp. 470–498 | article

Gong, Mingyu, Winnie Cheng & Le Cheng 2020 Development of deontic modality in Chinese civil laws: A corpus study

Keywords: deontic modality | legal discourse | Chinese civil laws | corpus linguistics | diachronic development

Pragmatics and Society 11:3 pp. 337–362 | article

Ma Xingcheng & Andrew K. F. Cheung 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

Babel 66:3 pp. 434–456 | article

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

The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 7:1/2 pp. 49–68 | article

Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M., Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma 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

Language, Context and Text 2:1 pp. 187–207 | article

Shih, Pei Chun 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

Chinese Language and Discourse 11:2 pp. 287–305 | article

Tay, Dennis 2020 Surveying views of metaphor vs. literal language in psychotherapy: A factor analysis

Keywords: confirmatory factor analysis | exploratory factor analysis | metaphor functions | experimental survey

Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 pp. 273–291 | article

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

Language, Context and Text 2:1 p. 3 | article

Tay, Dennis 2020 Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor: A quantitative approach to metaphor use in psychotherapy talk

Keywords: metaphor | psychotherapy | counseling | Chinese context

In: The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses, Huang, Mimi & Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87] pp. 231–254

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

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 55:2 pp. 103–132 | article

Tay, Dennis 2020 Critical, conceptual, and collaborative perspectives on metaphor and mental health

Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 pp. 191–198 | introduction

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

Keywords: sight translation | word order asymmetry | eye movements | cognitive load

Target 33:1 pp. 103–131 | article

Cheung, Andrew K. F. 2020 Interpreters’ perceived characteristics and perception of quality in interpreting

Keywords: perceptions of quality | reverse linguistic stereotyping | non-native accents | consecutive interpretation

Interpreting 22:1 pp. 35–55 | article

Xiong, Jiajuan & Chu-Ren Huang 2020 Plurality and definiteness in Chengdu Chinese

Keywords: plurality | definiteness | ɕiɛ | Chengdu Chinese | di | Cantonese

Language and Linguistics 21:4 pp. 655–687 | article | open access

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

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:2 pp. 183–220 | article

Tay, Dennis 2019 Death in a multicultural society: Metaphor, language and religion in Singapore obituaries

Keywords: obituaries | death | metaphor | religion | identity construction

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1 p. 84 | article

Cummings, Louise 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

Pragmatics and Society 10:2 pp. 153–176 | article

Song, Shuxian & Andrew K. F. Cheung 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

FORUM 17:1 pp. 1–19 | article

Pan, Molly Xie 2019 Federica Ferrari. (2018) Metaphor and Persuasion in Strategic Communication: Sustainable Perspectives

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1 pp. 215–219 | book review

Ho, Victor 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

Pragmatics and Society 10:4 pp. 493–511 | article

Ho, Victor 2020 Larssyn Staley, Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation: Speech acts and address forms in context

Pragmatics and Society 10:4 pp. 648–653 | book review

Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M., Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma 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

Language, Context and Text 1:2 pp. 366–387 | article

Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. 2019 Register in Systemic Functional Linguistics*

Keywords: cline of instantiation | hierarchy of stratification | semiotic | registerial cartography | semantic variation

Register Studies 1:1 pp. 10–41 | article

Wu, Zhiwei 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

Interpreting 21:2 pp. 196–219 | article

Wang, Shichang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao & Angel Chan 2019 The effect of morphological structure on semantic transparency ratings

Keywords: Mandarin Chinese | constituent semantic transparency | compound word-formation | headedness | crowdsourcing

Language and Linguistics 20:2 pp. 225–255 | article | open access

Pan, Molly Xie 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

Metaphor and the Social World 9:1 pp. 59–82 | article

Nartey, Mark 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

Journal of Language and Politics 18:2 pp. 252–271 | article

Brosig, Benjamin, Foong Ha Yap & Kathleen Ahrens 2020 Assertion, presumption and presupposition: An account of the erstwhile nominalizer YUM in Khalkha Mongolian

Keywords: assertion | presumption | presupposition | inference | evidentiality

Studies in Language 43:4 pp. 896–940 | article

Stell, Gerald & Robert Fuchs 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

English World-Wide 40:2 pp. 144–169 | article

Stell, Gerald 2019 Tracing emergent multilectal styles: Forms and functions of code-switching among Ovambos in urban Namibia

Keywords: sociolinguistics | code-switching | language contact | style | Namibia

Pragmatics 29:3 pp. 436–462 | article | open access

McKeown, Jamie 2018 Dorien Van De Mieroop and Stephanie Schnurr (eds) Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world

Pragmatics and Society 9:1 pp. 155–161 | book review

Pease, Adam, Jennifer Cheung Pease & Andrew K. F. Cheung 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

Babel 64:4 pp. 594–618 | article

Cheung, Andrew K. F. 2018 Non-renditions and the court interpreter’s perceived impartiality: A role-play study

Keywords: non-rendition | court interpreting | perceived impartiality | role play

Interpreting 20:2 pp. 232–258 | article

Shi, Xuanzhi & Mark Nartey 2018 Stephen Evans The English Language in Hong Kong: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

Pragmatics and Society 9:1 pp. 162–167 | book review

Ahrens, Kathleen 2018 Andreas Musolff. Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios

Pragmatics and Society 9:2 pp. 329–332 | book review

Xin, John, Jack Wu, PengPeng Yao & Sijie Shao 2018 An empirical study on fabric image retrieval with multispectral images using colour and pattern features

Keywords: fabric image | image retrieval | multispectral image | fabric features | colour measurement

In: Progress in colour studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam & Galina V. Paramei (eds.)  pp. 391–404

Feng, Dezheng (William) & Shuo Zhang 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

Pragmatics and Society 9:2 pp. 232–251 | article

Jenks, Christopher 2018 Meat, guns, and God: Expressions of nationalism in rural America

Keywords: ruralscapes | billboards | national identity | Americanness

Linguistic Landscape 4:1 pp. 53–71 | article

Yao, Jennifer Shuiying 2018 NP interpretation and disposal variations among the Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shaoxing dialects

Keywords: NP interpretation | disposal variation | Mandarin | Cantonese | Shaoxing dialect

Language and Linguistics 19:2 pp. 306–332 | article | open access

Kim, Mira & Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen 2017 Ways to move forward in translation studies: A textual perspective

Keywords: textual meaning | thematic progression | Theme | translation choices

In: Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies, Munday, Jeremy & Meifang Zhang (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 94] pp. 11–26

Fan, Ying 2017 Excessive serial verb construction: A quasi-resultative serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: serial verb construction | excessive | nucleus | core

Language and Linguistics 18:2 pp. 201–227 | article | open access

Ahn, Mikyung & Foong Ha Yap 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

Diachronica 34:4 pp. 437–469 | article

Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire 2018 Bridging boundaries across genre traditions: A Systemic Functional account of generic patterns in biodata

Functions of Language 24:3 pp. 259–293 | article

Recktenwald, Daniel 2017 Daria Dayter. Discursive Self in Microblogging: Speech acts, stories and self-praise

Pragmatics and Society 8:3 pp. 472–477 | book review

Ying, Jin 2017 Jan-Ola Östman and Anna Solin (eds) Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings

Pragmatics and Society 8:2 pp. 318–322 | book review

Cheung, Andrew K. F. 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

Babel 63:2 pp. 174–199 | article

Nartey, Mark 2016 Review of Labeling and Ideology in the Press: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Study of the Niger Delta Crisis by Innocent Chiluwa (2011)

Pragmatics and Society 7:3 pp. 503–506 | book review

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

In: Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins, Abbou, Julie & Fabienne H. Baider (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 264] p. 89

Tay, Dennis 2017 A variational approach to deliberate metaphors

Keywords: log-linear analysis | deliberate metaphor | metaphor variation

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:2 pp. 277–298 | article

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

Keywords: Cantonese ho2 | common ground marker | affirmation marker | interactional particles | discourse coherence model | interrogative particles

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17:2 pp. 178–207 | article

Warren, Martin & Maggie Leung 2016 Do collocational frameworks have local grammars?

Keywords: phraseology | patterns of co-selection | regulative texts | local grammars | collocational frameworks

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:1 pp. 1–27 | article

Ho, Victor 2017 Evaluative prosodies in academic quality audit reports: An exploratory study

Functions of Language 23:3 pp. 336–360 | article

Cheng, Winnie 2016 Introduction: Discourse and communication in organizations

Pragmatics and Society 7:1 pp. 1–7 | article

Bhatia, Aditi 2016 Discursive construction of the ‘key’ moment in the Umbrella Movement

Keywords: discursive illusion | key moments | media

Journal of Language and Politics 15:5 pp. 549–566 | article

Cheung, Andrew K.F. 2016 Paraphrasing exercises and training for Chinese to English consecutive interpreting

Keywords: paraphrasing | Chinese to English | consecutive interpreting | qualitative | quantitative | exercices de paraphrase | formation des interprètes | interprétation consécutive | langue à haut contexte | langue à bas contexte

FORUM 14:1 pp. 1–18 | article

Feng, Wei & Doreen D. Wu 2015 Chapter 10. Discourses of female leaders in postcolonial Hong Kong

Keywords: female register | political discourse systems | speech style and presentation | universal suffrage

In: Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John & Diana Boxer (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 63] pp. 251–272

Warren, Martin 2015 Chapter 6. I mean I only really wanted to dry me towels because …: Organisational frameworks across modes, registers, and genres

In: Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston, Groom, Nicholas, Maggie Charles & Suganthi John (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 73] pp. 145–160

Mohan, Bernard A., Tammy Slater, Gulbahar H. Beckett & Esther Tong 2015 Tasks, experiential learning, and meaning making activities: A functional approach

In: Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT: A decade of plenaries from the international conference, Bygate, Martin (ed.) [Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 8] pp. 157–192

Kim, Mira & Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen 2015 Introduction

Keywords: thematic progression | Theme | textual meaning | translation choices

Target 27:3 pp. 335–350 | article

Tay, Dennis 2015 Metaphor in case study articles on Chinese university counseling service websites

Keywords: Chinese context | counseling | e-health | Metaphor

Chinese Language and Discourse 6:1 pp. 28–56 | article

Cheung, Andrew K.F. 2015 Scapegoating the interpreter for listeners’ dissatisfaction with their level of understanding: An experimental study

Keywords: scapegoat | Cantonese | simultaneous interpreting | comprehension | accent

Interpreting 17:1 pp. 46–63 | article

Xu, Minhui & Chi Yu Chu 2015 Translators’ professional habitus and the adjacent discipline: The case of Edgar Snow

Keywords: professional habitus | adjacent discipline | Edgar Snow | journalist translator

Target 27:2 pp. 173–191 | article

Yap, Foong Ha & Winnie Chor 2014 Epistemic, evidential and attitudinal markers in clause-medial position in Cantonese

In: Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth & Werner Abraham (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 149] pp. 219–260

Cheung Andrew Kay-fan 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

FORUM 12:1 pp. 1–22 | article

Tay, Dennis 2014 At the heart of cognition, communication, and language: The value of psychotherapy to metaphor study

Keywords: counseling | discourse career | metaphor | psychotherapy

Metaphor and the Social World 4:1 pp. 48–64 | article

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

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:1 p. 84 | article

Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M. 2014 Extending the description of process type within the system of transitivity in delicacy based on Levinian verb classes

Functions of Language 21:2 pp. 139–175 | article

Ahn, Mikyung & Foong Ha Yap 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

Diachronica 31:3 pp. 299–336 | article

Cheung, Andrew K. F 2014 The use of reported speech and the perceived neutrality of court interpreters

Keywords: reported speech | court interpreting | speech attribution | perceived neutrality | role-play

Interpreting 16:2 pp. 191–208 | article

Lin, Ling 2014 Variability in the rhetorical structure of research article introductions: The case of civil engineering

Keywords: research writing | introductions | research articles | genre

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:2 pp. 405–432 | article

Wang, Shan & Chu-Ren Huang 2013 The semantic type system of event nouns: A case study on huìyì ‘conference; meeting’

Keywords: Event noun | Generative Lexicon theory | Mandarin Chinese

In: Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] pp. 205–222

Cheung, Andrew K. F 2013 Non-native accents and simultaneous interpreting quality perceptions

Keywords: non-native accent | quality perception | simultaneous interpreting | Cantonese

Interpreting 15:1 pp. 25–47 | article

Jiang, Hong 2013 The interpreter’s glossary in simultaneous interpreting: A survey

Keywords: simultaneous interpreting | survey | terminology | glossary

Interpreting 15:1 pp. 74–93 | article

Cheung Andrew Kay-fan 2012 Omission in Simultaneous Interpreting: Word order differences

Keywords: Simultaneous interpreting | coverb | media interpreting | Effort Model | omission

FORUM 10:2 pp. 19–33 | article

Cheung, Andrew K. F 2012 The use of reported speech by court interpreters in Hong Kong

Keywords: latitude | direct speech | court interpreting | corpus | Cantonese

Interpreting 14:1 pp. 73–91 | article

Chan, Angel, Stephen Matthews & Virginia Yip 2011 Chapter 8. The acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin

In: The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function, Kidd, Evan (ed.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 8] pp. 197–226

Yap, Foong Ha & Jiao Wang 2011 From light noun to nominalizer and more: The grammaticalization of zhe and suo in Old and Middle Chinese

In: Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 96] p. 61

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

Yap, Foong Ha 2011 Referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions in Malay

In: Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 96] pp. 627–658

Wakefield, John C. 2012 Disentangling the meanings of two Cantonese evidential particles

Keywords: Cantonese | sentence-final particles | discourse particles | epistemic marker | natural semantic metalanguage | evidential marker

Chinese Language and Discourse 2:2 pp. 250–293 | article

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

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:2 pp. 177–195 | article

Lee, Tong King 2011 The death of the translator in machine translation: A bilingual poetry project

Keywords: Hsia Yü | death of the translator | machine translation | dissemination | différance

Target 23:1 p. 92 | article

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 56:3 pp. 294–298 | book review

Feng, Jieyun & Doreen D. Wu 2009 Changing ideologies and advertising discourses in China: A case study of Nanfang Daily

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:2 pp. 218–238 | article

Ngan, Heltan Y.W. 2009 Developing biliteracy through studying the bilingual representation phenomenon in translation texts

Babel 55:1 pp. 40–57 | article

Kuo, Sai-hua & Doreen D. Wu 2009 Media discourse in Greater China

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:2 pp. 173–178 | article

Cheung, Andrew Kay-fan 2009 Numbers in Simultaneous Interpreting: An experimental study

Keywords: approximation | omission | erroneous rendition | Simultaneous interpreting | numbers

FORUM 7:2 pp. 61–88 | article

Evans, Stephen 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

English World-Wide 30:3 pp. 278–301 | article

Cheng, Winnie & Martin Warren 2008 7. // --> ONE country two SYStems //: The discourse intonation patterns of word associations

In: Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings, Ädel, Annelie & Randi Reppen (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 31] pp. 135–153

Warren, Martin 2008 Cohesive chains and speakers’ choice of prominence

Keywords: cohesive chain | discourse intonation | Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English | job placement interview | lexical cohesion | prominence

In: Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics, Flowerdew, John & Michaela Mahlberg (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 17] pp. 45–63

Cheng, Winnie 2008 Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourse

Keywords: colligation | collocation | core | extended units of meaning | Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English | lexical cohesion | lexical item | semantic preference | semantic prosody

In: Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics, Flowerdew, John & Michaela Mahlberg (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 17] pp. 65–83

Cheung Andrew Kay-Fan 2008 Simultaneous Interpreting of Numbers: An experimental study

Keywords: Simultaneous interpreting | number | training | experiment | English into Chinese

FORUM 6:2 pp. 23–38 | article

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

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:2 pp. 225–250 | article

Cheung, Andrew Kay-fan 2007 The Effectiveness of Summary Training in Consecutive Interpreting (CI) Delivery

Keywords: Consecutive interpreting | performance assessment | interpreting pedagogy | summary exercise | research validity and reliability

FORUM 5:2 pp. 1–23 | article

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

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:3 pp. 305–323 | article

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

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:3 pp. 325–344 | article

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

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:4 pp. 411–433 | article

Shi, Dingxu 2006 Hong Kong written Chinese: Language change induced by language contact

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 pp. 299–318 | article

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

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:1 p. 85 | article

Grundy, Peter & Yan Jiang 2008 Ideological Ground and Relevant Interpretation in a Cognitive Semantics

In: Language and Ideology: Volume 1: theoretical cognitive approaches, Dirven, René, Bruce Hawkins & Esra Sandikcioglu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 204] pp. 107–140

Evans, Steven & Christopher Green 2002 Language in post-colonial Hong Kong: The roles of English and Chinese in the public and private sectors

English World-Wide 22:2 pp. 247–268 | article

Cheng, Winnie & Martin Warren 2001 The use of vague language in intercultural conversations in Hong Kong

English World-Wide 22:1 p. 81 | article

Chi Yu, Chu 2008 Translation Theory in Chinese Translations of Buddhist Texts

In: Investigating Translation: Selected papers from the 4th International Congress on Translation, Barcelona, 1998, Beeby, Allison, Doris Ensinger & Marisa Presas (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 32] pp. 43–53

Peng, Long & Jane Setter 2000 The emergence of systematicity in the English pronunciations of two Cantonese-speaking adults in Hong Kong

English World-Wide 21:1 p. 81 | article

Wan, Ngan Yuen & Judy Wai Ping Kong 1997 The Effectiveness of Electronic Dictionaries as a Tool for Translators

Babel 43:2 pp. 151–165 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.