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Department of English Language and Literature Theses and Dissertations

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

In the periphery of the margin :white masculinity in contemporary American fiction /Chan Suet Ni., Suet Ni Chan

Legal interpreters for ethnic minorities in Hong Kong: identities and cultural mediation /Gurung Sangi., Sangi Gurung

The vicissitudes of the authentic self :a literary mapping of the authentic self from John Milton's Paradise lost to Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama /Mark Wallbanks., Mark Wallbanks

The ethics of reciprocity in translation :the development of a cross-cultural approach /Xin Guangqin., Guangqin Xin

Collaborative translation in online communities of practices :an ethnographic study of Yeeyan /Yu Chuan., Chuan Yu

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The historic voice of Bukid :a postcolonial reading of Manila and Bicol's comtemporary, Christine Bellen Siu

The ubiquity of terror : reading family, violence and gender in selected African Anglophone novels, Garfield Chi Sum Lau

A contrastive analysis of mandarin prosody in service-oriented and non-service-oriented attitudinal spontaneous speech, Bei Li

Self in community :twentieth-century American drama by women, Jing Li

A study of the use of adversative, causal and temporal connectors in English argumentations, descriptions and narrations by tertiary Chinese ESL learners, Yuwei Liu

Tethering Effect as an Explanation for the Bottleneck in Second Language Acquisition, Chuan Qin

The Mora-constituent interface model, Srinivas Sampath Kumar

Images of the Western Balkans in English translations of contemporary children's literature, Marija Todorova

Modernist fiction and self :representing women and solitude in selected works by Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, Siu Yin Yeung

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

A study on Hong Kong celebrities' interviews : how they achieve cohesion and coherence in their answers and the ideological differences between male and female celebrities, Cecillia Wanjun Chi

Politeness strategies in an intercultural communication : a case study of a Japanese person in Hong Kong, Kobayashi Kaoru

On the semantics of the Chinese modal adverb you, Jiali Ou

Translating as transculturating :a study of Dai Wangshu's translation of Lorca's poetry from an integrated sociological-cultural perspective, Jesús Sayols Lara

Hong Kong primary school children's second language acquisition : the impact of Filipina domestic workers, Francois Wolfaardt

Identity matters in politics : a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis on the blogs of the Hong Kong chief executive, Jesse Wai Chi Yip

A comparative study on reporting the incident of parallel traders in two newspapers in Hong Kong, Evelyn Pei Zhao

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Institutional construction of gamblers' identities :a critical discourse study, Chung Hang Leung

Translating Western musicals in Chinese :texts, networks, consumers, Stella Lanxing Sorby

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Cultural hybridization in a multicultural uniersity workplace : how rapport management works in intercultural communication, Zheng Chen

Protest literature : aesthetics and race politics in Toni Morrison's historiographic trilogy, Ka Chi Cheuk

The archived future : North American apocalyptic fiction and the ambiguous construction of the present, Tsz Ching Kwong

Talking about offensive advertising in focus group contexts : a discursive approach to attitudes, gender, and communication, Yan Yu Tracy Liu

Scope interaction between universal quantifiers and sentential negation in non-native English : the roles of UG and L1 grammar in L2 acquisition, Jun Zhang

民族國家建構、意識形態與翻譯 : 建國"十七年"中國文學英譯研究(1949-1966) = Nation-building, ideology and translation : a study on English translations of Chinese literature in the first seventeen years of the PRC(1949-1966), 倪秀華

習性、資本、場域與譯者行為 : 布迪厄理論視角下的茅盾翻譯研究 = Habitus, capital, field and translatorial act : a bourdieusian perspective on Mao Dun as a translator, 陸志国

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Capital and the heroine : reconfiguring gender in the Victorian novel, Yiting Fan

Eliminating clichés : the evolution of Jerzy Grotowski's self-revealing encounters (1957-1970), Yee Ki Ng

翻譯與中國形象的自我建構 : 形象學理論視角下的《大地》中譯研究 = Translation and self-construction of the China image : an imagological study of Chinese translations of Pearl Buck's China novel the good earth, 梁志芳

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Problematics of self in moral space : a study of Willa Cather, Susan Glaspell and H.D., Jing Li

The acquisition of the Chinese de-construction by native English speakers, Songhao Liu

Going green : community and ecofeminism in Barbara Kingsolver, Xianmin Shen

Fund commentary : exploring its structure and use of evaluative lexis by fund managers of good- and bad-performing funds, Chun Yu Siu

離散譯者張愛玲的中英翻譯 : 一個後殖民女性主義的解讀 = The diasporic translator Eileen Chang's Chinese-English translations : a postcolonial feminist interpretation, 王曉鶯

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Women at crossroads : a study of women's search for identity in twentieth century Chinese-American fiction, Suet Ni Chan

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

The American self in the shaping : a study of six bildungsromane, Ruixia Bai

Scaffolding and its impact on learning grammatical forms in tertiary Chinese EFL classrooms, Danli Li

A discourse analysis of trade negotiations, Wenhui Yang

A discourse analytical study of TV talk-show therapy, Xiaoping Yan

A corpus-based study of the forms and functions of BE in the interlanguage grammars of Chinese learners of English, Yanyan Zhang

文學作品中的模糊語言與翻譯 : 以The Da Vinci code及其兩個中譯本的研究為例 = Fuzzy language in literature and translation : a case study of The Da Vinci code and its own Chinese versions, 邵璐

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Rereading Michel Foucault's genealogy of power through Johnnie To's film, Ching Hay Tang

A postcolonial perspective on James Legge's Confucian translation : focusing on his two versions of the Zhongyong, Hui Wang

重寫與節約 : 從女性主義角度論《傲慢與偏見》的中譯本 = Rewriting and constraints : a study of the Chinese translations of Pride and prejudice from a feminist perspective, 邵毅

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

翻譯規範的破與立 : 朱湘譯詩新探 = Breaking and setting of norms : new perspectives on Zhu Xiang's poetry translation, 張旭

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

An analysis of the acquisition of the English unaccusatives by secondary students in Hong Kong, Wing Yee So

翻譯敎學中的(漢英/英漢)文本測試硏究 : 模糊綜合評分模式的建立 = A critical study of (C-E/E-C) text-based translation testing for translation teaching : towards constricting a fuzzy synthetic marking model., 穆雷

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

譯者為中心的翻譯適應選擇論探索 = Exploration into a translator-centred approach to translation as adaptation and selection, 胡庚申

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

A polysystemic study of the translations of modernist fiction in Literary current monthly magazine (1956-1959), Wai Ping Yau

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

The "invention" of different English Tao-te-chings (1868-1905), Kim Fan Wong

重寫的重寫 : 奧尼爾Long days's journey into night : 三個中文編譯本演出版的硏究 = Rewrites of rewrites : a study of three Chinese performances of O'Neill's Long day's journey into night, 諾敏

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

A study of the culture-oriented approach adopted by Robert Morrison in A dictionary of the Chinese language, Wai Lam Che

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

中國大陸翻譯敎科書發展硏究, (1949-1998) = A study of the development of translation textbooks on the mainland of China, (1949-1998), 張美芳

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

當代中國翻譯界就文化翻譯中忠信問題的議論 = Cultural considerations of "fidelity" in translation : an analysis of the views of contemporary Chinese theorists, 舒志義

Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995

Shakespeare in Hong Kong : transplantation and transposition, Dorothy Wai Yi Wong