Professor Christopher Hutton

Tel: (852) 3917 5142
E-mail: chutton@hkucc.hku.hk
Office: Room 837, 8/F, Run Run Shaw Tower (Building B, Arts), Centennial Campus

HKU Scholars Hub: http://hub.hku.hk/rp/rp01161

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Chris Hutton's research focusses on political issues in language and linguistics. At present he is investigating the links between linguistic theory and race theory, and the history of race theory, following on from his 1999 study of linguistics and ideology in Nazi Germany, Linguistics and the Third Reich (Routledge). In addition to this interest in the history and politics of Western linguistics, he is pursuing various projects at the intersection of linguistics, law and intellectual history. Recent publications include Race and the Third Reich (2005), Definition in Theory and Practice (with Roy Harris, 2007), Language, Meaning and the Law (Edinburgh, 2009).

Course offered in 2012-2013:

ENGL1036       Meaning and metaphor
ENGL2048       Language and jargon
ENGL2126       Law, meaning, and interpretation
ENGL3036       Research seminar in English linguistics

 

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Selected Publications

2009 Language, Meaning and the Law. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 244 pp.

2007 Definition in Theory and Practice: language, lexicography and the law. London: Continuum. 238 pp. (with R. Harris)

2007 Special edition of Language Sciences on the History of Linguistics (forthcoming) (with Hans-Georg Wolf).

2006 The Romantic theory of language: writing and speech in Western views of the Chinese language. Critical Zone: A Forum of Chinese & Western Knowledge 2: 82-105.

2005 Race and the Third Reich: linguistics, racial anthropology and genetics in the dialectic of Volk. Cambridge: Polity Press. 261 pp.

2005 A Dictionary of Cantonese slang: the language of Hong Kong movies, street gangs and city life London: Hurst & Co; Singapore: NUS; Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. Principal editor. (with K. Bolton) 492 pp.

2004   "Race science and scientific racism", in ed. E. Cashmore, Encylopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies , London: Routledge, pp. 385-9.

2002   "'Distant mirror' of the self: the image of the Jews in Chinese culture" (review article) Asian Ethnicities 3 (2): 256-262.

2002   "Media mythologies: the case of triad language." In eds. C. Barron, N. Bruce, and D. Nunan, Knowledge and discourse, London: Longman, pp. 147-163. [with K. Bolton]

2002  "The language myth and the race myth: twin evils of modern identity politics?" In ed. Roy Harris, The Language Myth in Western Culture, London: Curzon, pp. 118-138.

2001   "Cultural and conceptual relativism, universalism and the politics of linguistics." In eds. R. Dirven, B. Hawkins & E. Sandikcioglu, Language and Ideology I: cognitive theoretical approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 277-296.

2000   "Cross-border Categories: Ethnic Chinese and the Sino-Vietnamese Border at Mong Cai." In eds. G. Evans, C. Hutton, and K.E. Kuah, Where China meets Southeast Asia, pp. 254-276. Singapore:  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

2000   "Linguistics in cross-cultural communication: From the Chinese Repository to the 'Chinese Emerson'." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 9: 145-163 [with K. Bolton].

1999   Linguistics and the Third Reich. Mother-tongue fascism, race and the science of language. London & New York: Routledge.

1990   Abstraction and instance: the type-token relation in linguistic theory. Oxford: Pergamon.

 


Last updated: 1 March 2013