Programme in Language and Communication
School of English
Faculty of Arts
The University of Hong Kong

 

 

 








 

 

Volume 2008

Volume 2009

 

 

 



Table of contents of Volume 2008:1

Janice Yui Ling Ip

Analyzing tourism discourse: A case study of a Hong Kong travel brochure (PDF)

Winifred Yuk Ying Leung

A contrastive study of Chinese and English metaphors of marriage (PDF)

Bosco Li and Anna On Na Shum

A discussion on using English as medium of instruction in Hong Kong and its sociolinguistic Impacts (PDF)

 

Karen Hoi-kwan Wo
What gets lost in translation: Language and culture in "Hongloumeng" (PDF)

 

Philip Wing Tai Yeung
An investigation into the blurring speech/writing divide – corpus evidence of the emergence of initial ellipsis in online diaries (PDF)

Bernie Mak
Humor and funny stories: A sociolinguistic study of newcomers' socialization
into Hong Kong workplaces (PDF)


Table of contents of Volume 2008:2

Matthew Chit Cheung Sung
"That's the worst compliment I've ever heard": Analyzing gender, discourse, and
(im)politeness (PDF)

Kitty Hoi-kwan Ng

Politic behaviour in relational work: Is being direct necessarily impolite? (PDF)

Anna On Na Shum
Being positively polite – Women making requests in Hong Kong workplaces (PDF)

Nicole Chui-Shan Chan

Gender stereotypes: A sociolinguistics study of "The Amazing Race Asia Season
Two" (PDF)

Jennifer Yin Gee Lui
Playing football or cooking Punjabi meals: How does an Indian girl negotiate her
cultural identity in Britain? (PDF)

Sandy Ching-yee Tsang

Is small talk in the workplace really "trivial"? (PDF)








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