<p> HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY Department of English Language and Literature</p><p>ENGL4898-9 Honours Project Areas of Expertise</p><p>Prof. Stuart Christie -- William Empson Studies -- Native/Indigenous American Studies -- Twentieth-Century British and American Novel -- Cultural Studies/Literary Theory -- New Literatures in English -- Formalism in the Age of Deconstruction Dr. Tammy Ho -- Victorian Fiction, Contemporary Fiction (in particular, the Neo-Victorian novel), Biofictions -- Western Poetry and Poetics, Representations of Asia in Western Literature -- Literary Afterlives -- Literary Theories -- Modern Drama Dr. Ruth Hung -- Modern Literary Criticism -- The Modern Intellectual -- World Literatures in Our Time -- China in the Age of Global Capital Dr. Magdalen Ki -- Psychoanalysis and Literature -- Jane Austen -- 18th and 19th Century Literature -- Gothic Literature</p><p>Dr. Jason Lee -- Fictions of Globalization -- Poetry (British, Irish and Postcolonial) -- Postcolonial Theory and Fiction -- Shakespeare -- 21st Century Fiction Dr. Jason Polley -- Postwar American Fiction & Culture -- Comix & Graphic Novels -- Contemporary Fiction -- Media Studies -- Literary Journalism -- Shakespeare Prof. Terry Yip -- Chinese-Western Literary Relations -- Self and Identity in Literature -- Woman in Literature -- Special Themes or Motifs</p><p>19 November 2015 1 -- Literary Theory -- Romantic Literature</p><p>19 November 2015 1 HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY Department of English Language and Literature</p><p>ENGL4898-9 Honours Project Areas of Expertise</p><p>Dr. Hiroko Itakura -- Language and Gender -- Pragmatics -- Discourse Analysis -- Contrastive Rhetoric Dr. Kenneth Kong -- Computer-Mediated Discourse (email, internet chats, webpage) -- Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication -- Language and Social Relationships (especially the role of conversations in social relationships) -- Language of Business (inter-company correspondence, service encounter, staff performance appraisal, sales letter) -- Critical Discourse Analysis Dr. Phoenix Lam -- Computer-Mediated Communication -- Corpus Based / Driven Analysis -- Discourse Analysis -- English Grammatical Analysis -- English Language Teaching and Learning -- Stylistics Dr. John Wakefield -- L1-transfer of Grammar or Pragmatics -- Contrasts of English and Chinese grammars -- Syntax -- Sentence-final Particles (syntax or semantics) -- English Intonation -- Cross-cultural Communication -- Natural Semantic Metalanguage (for defining words or for writing cultural scripts) Dr. Lian Hee Wee -- Hong Kong English -- Sound Patterns of New Englishes -- Syntax-Phonology Interface (how sentence structures interact with prosody) -- Prosodic Phonology -- Linguistic Theory -- Optimality Theory Dr. Suying Yang -- Language Choice, Code-Mixing, Language Attitude -- Bilingual Education -- Second Language Acquisition -- Syntax (study of sentence structures in English, or contrastive study of sentence structures in English and Chinese) -- Semantics (study of semantic areas in English, or contrastive study of semantic areas in English and Chinese)</p><p>19 November 2015 1</p>