Hong Kong Baptist University

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

Technology: Special issue of Interpreting 26:2 (2024)

EditorFranz Pöchhacker & Minhua Liu

Subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies

[Interpreting: International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting, 26:2] 2024. v, 174 pp. | special issue

The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese: Special issue of Language and Linguistics 23:1 (2022)

Edited by Lian-Hee Wee, Feng Wang & Yuan Liang

Subjects Altaic languages | Austro-Asian languages | Austronesian languages | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Language and Linguistics: 語言暨語言學, 23:1] 2021. | special issue | open access

Explored but not Assumed: Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication. Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1 (2015)

Edited by Hui-Ching Chang & Ling Chen

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 25:1] 2015. | special issue

The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis

Edited by John H. Powers & Xiaosui Xiao

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] 2008. vi, 242 pp. | edited volume

Language Management and Language Problems: Part I. Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:2 (2000)

Edited by Björn H. Jernudd

Subjects Language policy

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 10:2] 2001. | special issue

Language Management and Language Problems: Part II. Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11:1 (2001)

Edited by Björn H. Jernudd

Subjects Language policy

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 11:1] 2001. | special issue

Wong, Sum 2026 Agency in metaphor and translation: A socio-cognitive approach to deliberate metaphor use in intercultural communication

Keywords: agency | intention | metaphor translation | intercultural pragmatics | Deliberate Metaphor Theory | cognitive translation and interpreting studies

Metaphor and the Social World | Online First Publication, 23 pp. | article | open access

Todorova, Marija 2025 Lives in translation: Listening to the voices of asylum seekers

Keywords: refugees | asylum seekers | women | ethnography | cultural mediation | ethics

In: Field Research on Translation and Interpreting, Rogl, Regina, Daniela Schlager & Hanna Risku (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 165] pp. 320–337 | open access

Zhao, Nan & Yumeng Lin 2025 The roles of language proficiency, working memory, and anxiety in speech error repairs in consecutive interpreting

Keywords: interpreting | speech errors | language proficiency | working memory | anxiety

Target 37:2 pp. 184–212 | article

Wong, Sum 2024 Deliberate metaphor (use) in translation and interpreting: Is there such a thing?

Keywords: Deliberate Metaphor Theory | deliberateness | communication | attention | metaphor in translation | metaphor in interpreting

Metaphor and the Social World 14:2 pp. 322–328 | other

Moreno García, Luis Damián 2025 Exploring the official and unofficial paratexts of Chinese indie video games on Steam Pages: Paratextual functions and cross-interactions

Keywords: paratextuality on Steam | official paratexts | unofficial paratexts | Steam Pages | paratextual functions

Digital Translation 11:2 pp. 116–139 | article

Pöchhacker, Franz & Minhua Liu 2024 Interpreting technologized: Distance and assistance

Keywords: distance interpreting | remote interpreting | video remote interpreting | computer-assisted interpreting | speech recognition | automation

Interpreting 26:2 pp. 157–177 | introduction | open access

Neather, Robert 2024 Visitor experience as translation: Intertextuality and identity in experiences of an American Chinese museum

Keywords: museum translation | visitor experience | intertextuality | diaspora | Museum of Chinese in America | traduction muséale | expérience du visiteur | intertextualité | diaspora | museum of Chinese in America

Babel 70:5 pp. 615–636 | article

Todorova, Marija 2023 Review of Translation as Social Justice: Translation Policies and Practices in Non-Governmental Organizations by Wine Tesseur (2023)

Babel 69:5 pp. 712–715 | book review

Wong, Sum 2023 Review of Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs edited by Maghiel van Crevel & Lucas Klein (2019)

Babel 70:4 pp. 586–589 | book review

Wee, Lian-Hee 2023 Review of Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect by Tong King Lee (2023)

Babel 69:3 pp. 421–424 | book review

Zhou, Shenyan & Yuanyuan Hu 2023 Review of Migrant Workers’ Narratives of Return: Alienation and Identity Transformations by Hans J. Ladegaard (2023)

Narrative Inquiry 35:2 pp. 366–369 | book review

Xu, Shengyi, Jun Pan & Michael Carl 2023 Economy and efficiency of note-taking in consecutive interpreting from English to Chinese: A study on Ear-Pen Span, Note-Taking Duration, Units, and Quality

Keywords: note-taking | Ear-Pen Span (EPS) | Note-Taking Duration (NTD) | Note-Taking Unit (NTU) | NTQ (NTQ) | annotation schema

In: Translation in Transition: Human and machine intelligence, Lacruz, Isabel (ed.) [American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, XX] pp. 157–181

Chen Xuemei 2023  Danmu-assisted learning through back translation: Reception of the English-dubbed Journey to the West (Season II)

Keywords: dubbing | reception | danmu | learning | Journey to the West (Season II) | doublage | reception | soustitrage danmu | apprentissage | Journey to the West (saison II)

Babel 69:5 pp. 598–624 | article

Moreno García, Luis Damián 2023 Recontextualizing disassembled texts: Exploring the concept of the “Web of Texts” in mobile game “Blind” localization from Chinese into foreign languages

Keywords: blind translation | mobile game localisation from Chinese | web of texts | translator studies | (re)contextualization | « blind translation » | localisation de jeu sur mobile | « web of texts » | études sur les traducteurs | (re)contextualisation

Babel 70:1/2 pp. 64–88 | article

Shea, James 2023 Self-domestication: Wan Kin-lau’s self-translations at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Keywords: Hong Kong poetry | International Writing Program | Iowa Writers’ Workshop | self-domestication | self-translation | Wan Kin-lau | poésie Hong Kongaise | International Writing Program | Iowa Writers’ Workshop | auto-domestication | autotraduction | Wan Kin-lau

Babel 70:4 pp. 554–574 | article

Moreno García, Luis Damián 2023 Fan indirect subtitling of Cdramas by women in Latin America and the Caribbean: A tool for the promotion of autodidacticism, global citizenship, and cultural diversity appreciation

Keywords: indirect fansubbing | indirect translation effects | Sustainable Development Goals | lifelong learning | global citizenship | cultural diversity appreciation

Translation Spaces 12:2 pp. 177–203 | article

Liu, Minhua 2023 User expectations research revisited: Methodological considerations

Keywords: user expectations | survey | construct validity | quality criteria | user research

In: Introducing New Hypertexts on Interpreting (Studies): A tribute to Franz Pöchhacker, Zwischenberger, Cornelia, Karin Reithofer & Sylvi Rennert (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 160] pp. 44–65

Bobrova, Angelina & Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen 2023 Modular vs. diagrammatic reasoning: The pragmatist side of human understanding

Keywords: reasoning | inference | modular mind | Mercier & Sperber | Peirce | pragmaticism | logical diagrams | logical graphs

Pragmatics & Cognition 29:1 pp. 111–134 | article

Pan Jun, Wong Billy Tak-Ming & Wang Honghua 2022 Navigating learner data in translator and interpreter training: Insights from the Chinese/English Translation and Interpreting Learner Corpus (CETILC)

Keywords: learner corpus | translator training | interpreter training | lexical cohesion | corpus linguistics | corpus d’apprenants | formation des traducteurs | formation des interprètes | cohésion lexicale | linguistique de corpus

Babel 68:2 pp. 236–266 | article

Rowlett, Benedict J. L. & Putsalun Chhim 2022 Negotiating the language of gender and sexuality: A case study of educational materials from Cambodia

Keywords: gender and sexuality education | instructional materials | metapragmatic reflection | Cambodia | multimodal discourse analysis | identity | NGO

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:2 pp. 111–136 | article

Todorova, Marija 2022 Translating refugee culinary cultures: Hong Kong’s narratives of integration

Keywords: food | materiality | translation | refugees | Hong Kong

Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:1 p. 88 | article

Nicodemus, Brenda, Minhua Liu & Sandra McClure 2021 The reading habits of professional signed and spoken language interpreters

Keywords: interpreters | reading habits | signed language | spoken language | professionals

Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:2 pp. 287–312 | article

Todorova, Marija 2021 The Western Balkans in translated children’s literature: Location-dependent images of (self)representation

Keywords: imagology | children’s literature | Western Balkans | visual images | location

Translation Spaces 10:1 p. 94 | article

Rowlett, Benedict J. L. & Christian Go 2021 Tracing trans-regional discursive flows in Pink Dot Hong Kong promotional videos: (Homo)normativities and nationalism, activism and ambivalence

Keywords: Asian LGBT+ activism | Pink Dot | Hong Kong | normativities | queer Sinophone cultures | multimodal discourse analysis | homonationalism | citizenship

Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:2 pp. 157–179 | article

Liu, Tanjun 2021 Data-driven learning: Using #LancsBox in academic collocation learning

Keywords: data-driven learning | collocations | #LancsBox | collocation graphs

In: Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education, Pérez-Paredes, Pascual & Geraldine Mark (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 102] pp. 177–206

Liang, Yuan & Lian-Hee Wee 2021 Melodic-prosodic duality of the syllable: An application to Chinese

Keywords: syllable | mora | foot | segment | feature | prosody

Language and Linguistics 23:1 p. 82 | article | open access

Tsang, Yiu-Kei 2022 Morphophonological activation in Chinese word recognition: Evidence from heteronymic characters

Keywords: morphological processing | visual word recognition | Chinese | Cantonese | morpho-phonology | heteronymic morphemes

The Mental Lexicon 16:2/3 pp. 240–270 | article

Ng, Kenny K. K. 2020 When Mei Lanfang encountered Fei Mu: Adaptation as intersemiotic translation in early Chinese opera film

Keywords: Chinese theater | Fei Mu | May Fourth | Mei Lanfang | Bejing opera | opera film | intermediality | intersemiotic translation | realism | screen adaptation

In: Opera and Translation: Unity and diversity, Şerban, Adriana & Kelly Kar Yue Chan (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 153] pp. 75–94

Robinson, Douglas 2020 Reframing translational norm theory through 4EA cognition

Keywords: norms | counterfactuals | 4EA cognition | affect | icosis

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 3:1 pp. 122–142 | article

Ragragio, Jefferson Lyndon D. 2020 Strongman, patronage and fake news: Anti-human rights discourses and populism in the Philippines

Keywords: human rights | populism | right-wing populism | discourse | democracy | Philippines | Duterte

Journal of Language and Politics 20:6 pp. 852–872 | article

Liu, Minhua, Ingrid Kurz, Barbara Moser-Mercer & Miriam Shlesinger 2020 The interpreter’s aging: A unique story of multilingual cognitive decline?

Keywords: aging | AIIC | cognitive decline | cognitive functions | cognitive reserve | conference interpreters

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 3:2 pp. 287–309 | article | open access

Mak, Bernie Chun Nam 2019 David Chor Shing Li Multilingual Hong Kong: Languages, Literacies and Identities

Pragmatics and Society 10:2 pp. 316–321 | book review

Mak, Bernie Chun Nam 2020 Doing business and constructing identities through small talk in workplace instant messaging

Keywords: small talk | identity | workplace | instant messaging | Hong Kong | computer-mediated discourse analysis | organizational communication

Pragmatics and Society 10:4 pp. 559–583 | article

Shuttleworth, Mark 2019 Ervas, F., Gola, E. & Rossi, M. G. (Eds). (2017). Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education

Metaphor and the Social World 9:1 pp. 147–152 | book review

Shuttleworth, Mark 2019 Vorya Dastyar. Dictionary of Metaphors in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Target 31:2 pp. 273–276 | book review

Pöchhacker, Franz & Minhua Liu 2019 Going out in style: An interview with Interpreting Style Editor Peter Mead

Interpreting 21:1 pp. 1–11 | other

Huang, Zeping & Gavin Bui 2019 Lexical bundles in conversation across Englishes: What can core and peripheral bundles reveal?

Keywords: corpus-based | lexical bundles | conversation | core and periphery | Schneider’s Dynamic Model | World Englishes

English World-Wide 40:3 pp. 299–324 | article

Chen, Meilin & John Flowerdew 2018 A critical review of research and practice in data-driven learning (DDL) in the academic writing classroom

Keywords: academic writing | English for Academic Purposes (EAP) | writing pedagogy | specialised corpora | language teaching

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23:3 pp. 335–369 | article

Rowlett, Benedict J. L. 2018 Affect as narrative action in the Global South: An analysis of small stories about transnational same-sex relationships in Cambodia

Keywords: Cambodia | transnational same-sex relationships | affect | practices | queer linguistics | Southern perspectives | North/South intersections | small stories | narrative analysis | discourse analysis

Narrative Inquiry 28:2 pp. 237–256 | article

Sheer, Vivian C., Shuang Liu & Lei Huang 2018 Ethical leadership: From Western foundation to Chinese context

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:1 pp. 20–40 | article

Man, Laura, Gavin Bui & Mark Feng Teng 2018 From second language to third language learning: Exploring a dual-motivation system among multilinguals

Keywords: L2 motivation | L3 motivation, instrumentality | integrativeness | dual-motivation system

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 41:1 pp. 61–90 | article

Minhua, Liu 2018 In memory of Dr. Etilvia Maria Arjona Chang: Winner of the Pierre-François Caillé Medal 2005

Babel 64:3 pp. 345–347 | obituary

Teng, (Mark) Feng 2018 A learner-based approach of applying online reading to improve learner autonomy and lexical knowledge

Keywords: learner autonomy | lexical knowledge | metacognitive strategy training | online reading | Autonomía del alumno | conocimiento léxico | prácticas de estrategias metacognitivas | lectura en línea

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31:1 p. 94 | article

Robinson, Douglas, Elodie Feron & Maud Gonne 2017 Quel type de littérature pour la traduction littéraire? [What kind of literature is a literary translation?]

Keywords: traduction littéraire | Genette | littérarité | genre

Target 29:3 pp. 440–463 | translation

Robinson, Douglas, Anna Avdeeva & Mariia Vershinina 2017 К вопросу о жанровой принадлежности литературного перевода [What kind of literature is a literary translation]

Keywords: литературный перевод | Женетт | литературность | жанр

Target 29:3 pp. 440–463 | translation

Pan, Jun, Honghua Wang, Jackie Xiu Yan, Danni Hu & Hong Cai 2017 口译与笔译培训的共性与分歧: 来自一个英文期刊数据库的研究发现 [Convergences and divergences between studies on translator training and interpreter training]

Keywords: 培训 | 笔译研究 | 口译研究 | 研究课题 | 研究方法

Target 29:1 pp. 178–183 | translation

Robinson, Douglas 2017 What kind of literature is a literary translation?

Keywords: literary translation | Genette | literariness | genre

Target 29:3 pp. 440–463 | article

Robinson, Douglas, Dena Hassanzadeh & Ehsan Rezvani 2017 چه نوع ادبیاتی، یک ترجمه ادبی است؟ [What kind of literature is a literary translation?]

Keywords: ترجمه ادبي | ژنت | ادب یّت | ژانر

Target 29:3 pp. 440–463 | translation

Pan, Jun, Honghua Wang & Jackie Xiu Yan 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

Target 29:1 pp. 110–144 | article

Fuchs, Robert 2017 Do women (still) use more intensifiers than men?: Recent change in the sociolinguistics of intensifiers in British English

Keywords: gender | diachronic change | intensifiers | social class | age

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:3 pp. 345–374 | article

Poon, Vinton Wing Kin 2017 Is variety as neutral as it seems?: Re-visiting the concept of linguistic variety (and other basic linguistic terms)

Keywords: variety | Chinese | Hong Kong English | register and style | sociolinguistics | pragmatics | computer-mediated communication

Pragmatics and Society 8:3 pp. 377–399 | 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

Lam, Phoenix W.Y. 2015 Review of Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures edited by Stanca Măda & Răzvan Săftoiu (2012)

Pragmatics and Society 6:1 pp. 147–151 | book review

Chang, Hui-Ching & Ling Chen 2015 Commonalities as an alternative approach to analyzing Asian Pacific communication: Some notes about the Special Issue

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1 pp. 1–21 | article

Chan, Kara, Lennon Tsang & Yanni Ma 2015 Consumers’ attitudes toward advertising by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners

Keywords: advertising regulation | consumer perception | survey | culture | Health services

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:2 pp. 305–322 | article

Kumar, Srinivas S. & Lian-Hee Wee 2014 Review of Indian English: Towards a New Paradigm edited by Rama Kant Agnihotri & Rajendra Singh (2013)

Pragmatics and Society 5:3 pp. 515–519 | book review

Wee, Lian Hee 2014 Casual speech elision and tone sandhi in Tianjin trisyllabic sequences

Keywords: tone sandhi | tianjin | prosody | mora | elision | casual speech

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1:1 pp. 71–95 | article

Itakura, Hiroko 2014 Femininity in mixed-sex talk and intercultural communication: Are Japanese women polite and submissive?

Keywords: femininity | submissiveness | linguistic relativity | politeness | Japanese | intercultural communication | gender | mixed-sex talk

Pragmatics and Society 5:3 pp. 455–483 | article

Itakura, Hiroko 2013 Review of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation and Ventriloquism by François Cooren (2010)

Pragmatics and Society 4:3 pp. 393–396 | book review

Sio, Joanna Ut-Seong 2011 The Cantonese ge3

In: Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 96] pp. 125–146

Chen, Ling 2011 Cultural identity as a production in process: Dialectics in Hongkongers’ account

Keywords: Chinese | Hong Kong | intercultural communication | cultural identity

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:2 pp. 213–237 | article

Bruche-Schulz, Gisela 2011 The “Geneva School”: A view from Russia

Historiographia Linguistica 38:1/2 pp. 159–177 | article

Wee, Lian-Hee 2010 Review of Digital Technologies of the Self edited by Yasmine Abbas & Fred Dervin (2009)

Pragmatics and Society 1:1 pp. 173–177 | book review

Hung, Tony T.N. 2009 Innovation in second language phonology: Evidence from Hong Kong English

In: World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas & Lucia Siebers (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G40] pp. 227–238

Leung, Ester & John Gibbons 2009 Interpreting Cantonese utterance-final particles in bilingual courtroom discourse

Keywords: utterance particles | court interpreting | Cantonese

Interpreting 11:2 pp. 190–215 | article

Powers, John H. & Gwendolyn Gong 2008 1. Hong Kong's multiple constructions of SARS

In: The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. & Xiaosui Xiao (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] pp. 17–31

Xiao, Xiaosui 2008 2. A hero story without heroes: The Hong Kong government's narratives on SARS

In: The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. & Xiaosui Xiao (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] pp. 33–52

Lee, Alice Y.L. 2008 4. Internet press freedom and online crisis reporting: The role of news web sites in the SARS epidemic

In: The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. & Xiaosui Xiao (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] pp. 69–90

Leung, Ester S.M. 2008 Interpreting for the minority

In: Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics, Gibbons, John & M. Teresa Turell (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 5] pp. 197–211

Powers, John H. 2008 Introduction

In: The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. & Xiaosui Xiao (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] pp. 1–13

Kong, Kenneth C.C. 2006 Accounts as a politeness strategy in the internal directive documents of a business firm in Hong Kong

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:1 p. 77 | article

Huang, Yue Yuan & Allan K.K. Chan 2005 The role of language and culture in marketing communication: A study of Chinese brand names

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:2 pp. 257–285 | other

Cheung, Martha P.Y. 2006 ‘To translate’ means ‘to exchange’?: A new interpretation of the earliest Chinese attempts to define translation (‘fanyi’)

Keywords: Chinese discourse on translation | ‘exchange’ | ‘fanyi’ | ideology | metaphors of translation

Target 17:1 pp. 27–48 | article

Lee, Jackie 2002 Attitudes towards disputable usages among Australian teachers and students

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:1 pp. 109–129 | article

Jernudd, Björn H. 2001 Language Management and Language Problems: Part 2

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11:1 pp. 1–8 | article

Ho, Adrian K. & Björn H. Jernudd 2001 Conversational repair in spoken Hong Kong Cantonese

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:2 pp. 205–225 | article

Jernudd, Björn H. 2001 Language management and language problems: Part 1

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:2 pp. 193–203 | article

Cabau-Lampa, Béatrice 2000 L’expérience suédoise en matière d’enseignement des langues-cultures d’origine

Language Problems and Language Planning 24:2 pp. 149–165 | article

Lu, Dan & Yin yee Au-Yeung 2000 Putonghua: A mirror to reflect Hong Kong youths’ emotions

Keywords: Putonghua | mother tongue | language attitudes | Hong Kong students | learning motivation | language preference

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:1 pp. 115–133 | article

Tickoo, Asha 1998 The lexico-syntactic marking of chronological order: Insights from vietnamese learners of ESL

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 21:1 pp. 109–124 | article

Field, Yvette 1994 Cohesive conjunctions in the English writing of Cantonese speaking students from Hong Kong

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 17:1 pp. 125–139 | article

Kuo, Eddie C.Y. & Björn H. Jernudd 1993 Balancing Macro- and Micro-Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Language Management: The Case of Singapore

Language Problems and Language Planning 17:1 pp. 1–21 | article

Bruche-Schulz, Gisela 1993 Marr, Marx, and linguistics in the soviet union

Historiographia Linguistica 20:2/3 pp. 455–472 | review article

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