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Urban Textscapes:
A Sociolinguistics Symposium on
Work-in-Progress
School of English, The University of Hong Kong
Main Building MB113G
30 April 2011(Saturday), 9.30am – 5.30pm
Please click here for the programme rundown.
*No registration is required. |
Presenters
Sany, CAI Shanni (School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University):
The Linguistic Landscape of Guangzhou, from a Sociolinguistic Perspective
Jackie Jia Lou (Department of English, City University of HK):
Canton or Guangzhou: Reading the City through the Code Selection in its Textscape
Martin Montgomery (Department of English, University of Macao):
Constructing ‘place' in the (discourse of television) news
Adrian Pablé & Noël Christe (School of English, HKU):
Semiotic landscapes in context: first-order and second-order sign creation
Adam Jaworski (School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University):
Banal Globalization
Chris Hutton (School of English, HKU):
Text-rich and Text-free Spaces in the HK Landscape and its Representations
Paul Thibault (Faculty of Education, HKU):
Writing (in) the Lifeworld: Written Signs, Cognitive Dynamics and the Extended Human Ecology.
Invited discussants
Aditi Bhatia (Department of English, City University of HK)
Zhou Feifei (School of English, HKU)
