Education University of Hong Kong

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

Titles

Cantonese give and Double-Object Construction: Grammaticalization and Word Order Change

Andy Chi-on Chin

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 15] 2022. | monograph

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

Song, Ge 2026 Review of Power, Affect, and Identity in the Linguistic Landscape: Chinese Communities in Australia and Beyond by Xiaofang Yao (2025)

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 36:1 pp. 155–160 | book review | open access

Wang, Yijen, Wenzheng Huang & Glenn Stockwell 2026 Mobile applications for language learning

In: Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Kessler, Matt (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] pp. 147–171

Gu, Jiapei & Janet Ho 2026 Asymmetric discursive struggle: The discursive representation and contestation of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese cyberspace

Keywords: critical discourse analysis | digital discourse | China | anti-Black racism | discursive representation

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article | open access

Boonsuk, Yusop & Fan Fang 2026 IELTS through test takers’ eyes: Insights into academic impact and Global Englishes integration

Keywords: Global Englishes | international standardized tests | IELTS | study abroad | English as a medium of instruction | language assessment

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 31 pp. | article | open access

Niu, Yuyan & Albert Lee 2026 Time-based integration of Mandarin medial /j/: Evidence from a gating study with Japanese learners

Keywords: speech perception | gating paradigm | temporal integration | speech rate | L2 phonology | Mandarin Chinese | Japanese learners

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article | open access

Poposki, Zoran & Marija Todorova 2026 Worldbuilding, narrative, and agency in the intersemiotic translations of ‘The Witcher’

Keywords: intersemiotic translation | transmedia storytelling | narrative agency | media convergence | worldbuilding

Translation Spaces | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article

Todorova, Marija 2025 Review of Collaborative Poetry Translation: Processes, Priorities, and Relationships in the Poettrio Method by W. N. Herbert, Francis R. Jones & Fiona Sampson (2025)

Babel 72:3 pp. 436–439 | book review | open access

Dong, Sicong & Hongdi Ding 2025 A typological study of rainfall expressions in Sino-Tibetan languages

Keywords: rainfall expression | encoding type | diachronic change | transitivity | Sino-Tibetan languages

Studies in Language 50:1 p. 68 | article

Cao, Liang & Angel Lin 2026 Dialogic triad: Balancing human-AI collaboration in academic writing for scholarly publication

Keywords: generative AI | scholarly writing | dialogic triad | relational agency | human-AI collaboration

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:2 pp. 340–369 | 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

Tu, Mengwei, Qing Ma & Lin Jiang 2024 Exploring EFL vocabulary learning through the story continuation writing task: A mixed-methods study

Keywords: vocabulary learning | reading-writing integrated task | story continuation writing task | cognitive processing | EFL

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 48:3 pp. 587–610 | article

Liu, Fung Ming Christy 2024 Scrutinizing job satisfaction during COVID-19 through Facebook: Voices of Chinese translators

Keywords: job satisfaction | job dissatisfaction | translators | COVID-19 | Facebook | social media data

Translation Spaces 13:1 pp. 102–125 | article

Jin, Jing 2024 Encoding complex speech acts via sentence final particles: New evidence from the Changsha dialect (Xiang Chinese)

Keywords: complex speech acts | sentence final particle | speaker’s commitment | call on addressee | syntax-pragmatic interface | 複雜言語行為 | 句末助詞 | 言者承諾 | 呼喚聽者 | 句法-語用介面

Concentric 50:2 pp. 201–242 | article | open access

Han, Qianwen, Jing Xuan Tian & Hsueh Chu Chen 2023 L3 prosody: Cross-linguistic influence of prosodic features in Mandarin and English by Cantonese multilinguals

Keywords: pronunciation learning | L2 phonology | multilingualism | cross-linguistic influence | prosody

In: L3 Development After the Initial State, Brown, Megan M., Suzanne! Flynn & Éva Fernández-Berkes (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 65] p. 96

Tang, Hoa K., Khanh H. Nguyen & Nguyen H. N. Luong 2023 The tension between English-medium instruction and Vietnamese-medium instruction in higher education: A graduate retrospect

Keywords: English-medium instruction (EMI) | Vietnamese-medium instruction (VMI) | information technology (IT) | uneven distribution | self-amplifying loop | disparity

Journal of English-Medium Instruction 3:1 pp. 68–90 | article

Chin, Andy Chi-on 2022 Cantonese give and Double-Object Construction: Grammaticalization and Word Order Change

In: Cantonese give and Double-Object Construction: Grammaticalization and Word Order Change, Chin, Andy Chi-on[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 15] p.  ff.

Trent, John 2022 EMI as discursive positioning: Exploring the voices of content subject teachers in Hong Kong

Keywords: English medium of instruction | Hong Kong | dialogism | positioning theory

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 10:2 pp. 265–285 | article

Ou, Amy Wanyu, Francis M. Hult & Michelle Mingyue Gu 2022 Language policy and planning for English-medium instruction in higher education

Keywords: English-medium instruction (EMI) | language policy | language planning | higher education

Journal of English-Medium Instruction 1:1 p. 7 | article

Ou, Wanyu Amy, Mingyue Michelle Gu & Francis M. Hult 2021 Discursive ripple effects in language policy and practice: Multilingualism and English as an academic lingua franca in transnational higher education

Keywords: English as an academic lingua franca | transnational higher education | English medium instruction | multilingualism | language policy | nexus analysis

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 44:2 pp. 154–179 | article

Ho, Janet & Ming Ming Chiu 2021 Media portrayals of the Hong Kong Occupy Central Movement’s social actors: Multilevel and critical discourse analysis

Keywords: Occupy Central | Hong Kong | news media | social actors | multilevel analysis | critical discourse analysis

Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 p. 81 | article

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

Zhang, Ling 2021 Syllable isochrony and the prosodic features of stop syllables in Cantonese

Keywords: syllable isochrony | stop syllable | entering tone | prosodic feature | Cantonese

Language and Linguistics 23:1 pp. 20–46 | article | open access

Jin, Jing 2020 A revisit to the [Num-Cl-Modifier-de-N]/ [Modifier-de-Num-Cl‑N] variation in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: word order | modifier | syntax-semantics interface | syntax-discourse interface | nominal phrase

Language and Linguistics 21:2 pp. 213–253 | article | open access

Trent, John 2020 The positioning of English-medium of instruction: Winners and losers in “the game of EMI” at two Russian universities

Keywords: English-medium of instruction | higher education | Russia | positioning

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 8:1 p. 5 | article

Zhang, Ling & Liu Shi 2021 Acoustic analysis of Chinese tone production by Thai-speaking learners of L2 Chinese

Keywords: tone production | L2 speakers of Chinese | Thai speakers | acoustic analysis | error analysis | pitch | duration

Journal of Second Language Studies 3:2 pp. 180–204 | article

Chan, Yuen I & Hsueh Chu Chen 2021 Hong Kong Cantonese university students’ tonal errors in Mandarin and their relation to L1 influence

Keywords: speech learning model | Mandarin tones | L2 acquisition | contrastive analysis | 語音學習模型 | 普通話聲調 | 二語習得 | 對比分析

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 55:1 pp. 54–81 | article

Chen, Hsueh Chu & Qian Wang 2019 The effects of Hong Kong L2 English speakers’ phonological features on listeners’ cognitive and affective perceptions

Keywords: speech production and perception | second language pronunciation | foreign accent

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 42:1 p. 84 | article

Tsoi, Ling Yu Debbie & Fung Ming Christy Liu 2019 Translation, culture and politics: Implications of political slogans in Hong Kong

Keywords: political translation | translation methods | domestication and foreignization | reader response criticism | bilingual slogans

Translation Spaces 8:2 pp. 280–299 | article

Gathercole, Virginia C. Mueller, Enlli Mon Thomas, Nestor Viñas Guasch, Ivan Kennedy, Cynog Prys, Nia Young, Emily J. Roberts, Emma K. Hughes & Leah Jones 2019 Teasing apart factors influencing executive function performance in bilinguals and monolinguals at different ages

Keywords: executive function | bilingual advantage | Simon task

In: Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights, Sekerina, Irina A., Lauren Spradlin & Virginia Valian (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 57] pp. 295–336

Zhu, Qingzhi & Bohan Li 2018 The language of Chinese Buddhism: From the perspective of Chinese historical linguistics

Keywords: Buddhist Chinese | Chinese translation of Indian Buddhist scriptures | Sanskrit-Chinese comparative collation | Chinese historical linguistics | Classical written Chinese | vernacular written Chinese

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5:1 pp. 1–32 | article

Liu, Li & Hin Tat Cheung 2018 The partial productivity of schematic idioms in Chinese: Evidence from speakers’ judgment

Keywords: schematic idioms | partial productivity | emergentist

Language and Linguistics 19:1 p. 80 | article | open access

Liu Christy Fung Ming 2017 Perception of translation graduates on translation internships, with mixed-methods approach

Keywords: translation education | translation internships | mixed-methods research | translator training | enseignement de la traduction | stages de traduction | recherche basée sur une méthodologie mixte | formation du traducteur

Babel 63:4 pp. 580–599 | article

Ma, Qing 2015 A process-focused learning model for L2 vocabulary acquisition: Construction, implementation and validation

Keywords: L2 vocabulary acquisition | learning stages, vocabulary learning strategies | structural equation modelling

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 166:1 pp. 127–162 | article

Lai, Mee Ling 2015 Power redistribution of languages in Hong Kong under a new national flag

Keywords: Matched-guise test | Hong Kong | language competition | language attitudes

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1 pp. 141–164 | article

Luk, Zoe Pei-sui 2014 Investigating the transitive and intransitive constructions in English and Japanese: A quantitative study

Keywords: transitive | intransitive | Japanese | English | frequency | Construction Grammar

Studies in Language 38:4 pp. 752–791 | article

Liu Fung-ming Christy & Chan Andy Lung Jan 2014 Learning and Teaching Translation in an Age of Mass Higher Education: A quantitative survey of the sub-degree translation programme graduates in Hong Kong

Keywords: Translation education | mass higher education | Hong Kong | quantitative survey | learning outcome.

FORUM 12:1 pp. 23–39 | article

Hsu, Ning, Hintat Cheung, Enan Wang & Tai-Li Chou 2013 Narratives of Mandarin-speaking patients with schizophrenia

In: Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion, McCabe, Allyssa & Chien-ju Chang (eds.) [Studies in Narrative, 19] pp. 181–206

Kong, Stella 2013 Commentary on Ballinger dissertation summary

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 1:1 pp. 155–158 | article

Li, David C.S. 2011 ‘Perfective paradox’: A cross-linguistic study of the aspectual functions of -guo in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: contrastive aspectology | aspect | aspectology | Aktionsart | tense

Chinese Language and Discourse 2:1 pp. 23–57 | article

Holme, Randal 2010 Construction grammars: Towards a pedagogical model

AILA Review 23:1 pp. 115–133 | article

Li, David C.S. 2009 Review of English in Southeast Asia: Varieties, Literacies and Literatures edited by David Prescott (2007)

English World-Wide 30:1 pp. 103–108 | book review

Li, David C.S. 2009 Towards ‘biliteracy and trilingualism’ in Hong Kong (SAR): Problems, dilemmas and stakeholders’ views

AILA Review 22:1 pp. 72–84 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy 2008 Learning English and other languages in multilingual settings: Principles of multilingual performance and proficiency

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 31:3 pp. 31.1–31.11 | other | open access

Deterding, David, Jennie Wong & Andy Kirkpatrick 2008 The pronunciation of Hong Kong English

Keywords: Hong Kong English | ASEAN English | South-East Asian English | consonant clusters | L-vocalisation | TH-fronting | vowel quality | vowel reduction | rhythm

English World-Wide 29:2 pp. 148–175 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy 2007 Review of China’s English. A History of English in Chinese Education by Bob Adamson (2004)

English World-Wide 28:1 pp. 123–127 | book review

Kirkpatrick, Andy 2007 The Arrangement of Letters: Hierarchy or Culture? From Cicero to China

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:2 pp. 245–258 | article

Wong, Lillian & Phil Benson 2008 15. In-Service CALL education: What happens after the course is over?

In: Teacher Education in CALL, Hubbard, Philip & Mike Levy (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 14] pp. 251–264

Carless, David R. 2004 A contextualised examination of target language use in the primary school foreign language classroom

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27:1 pp. 104–119 | article

Kong, Siu Cheung & Lam For Kwok 2003 Modeling a cognitive tool for teaching the addition/subtraction of common fractions

Keywords: cognitive tool (CT) | common fraction | evaluation | cognitive task analysis

International Journal of Cognition and Technology 1:2 pp. 327–352 | article

Chung, Jenny S.L. 2000 Understanding signals and reading comprehension

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:1 pp. 77–93 | article

Gu, Jiapei & Janet Ho Asymmetric discursive struggle: The discursive representation and contestation of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese cyberspace

Keywords: critical discourse analysis | digital discourse | China | anti-Black racism | discursive representation

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article | open access

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