May L-Y Wong

FHEA, Lecturer, School of English, The University of Hong Kong. Interested in digital humanities & interdisciplinary studies in culture and heritage.

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

My book has now been published online! Huge thanks to Cathy Scott @Palgrave_Ling for her great help, and @Helen_Bilton for the excellent index, and Prof Teun van Dijk, Prof Anthony Fung (@anthonycuhk) and Prof David Machin for their precious endorsements! https://t.co/m7LlHd0g8O

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

@TALICHKU @Mentimeter Massive thanks to @TALICHKU for sharing this ultra-useful resource! 😊I wondered if there’s a campus licence of Mentimeter for us staff (and students) here at HKU?

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

@NicKeaney @sj2915 Totally agreed. The way that the guy egotistically waves to the unknowing congregation says it all. Stealing her thunder is one thing, but putting her on the spot like this is quite another. If anything, let’s just hope there’s a happily ever after…

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

@tom_watson @theJeremyVine @BBCRadio2 That’s Bruce Lee in Enter the dragon, no less! Huge fan of his, and yours! Thanks for sharing it Jeremy - having been listening to you every week since donkey’s years all the way from Hong Kong. Great show! Happy birthday :))

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

Are you interested in #Cantonese #slang used in #HongKong? My paper on Mechanisms of #SemanticChange explain how ten monosyllabic lexemes are conferred non-literal meanings in common slang terms. #CognitiveLinguistics https://t.co/0cH6Yw6naW

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

This is a very useful resource for teaching about the classic Conceptual Metaphor Theory in #CognitiveLinguistics which features the inspirational research findings by @CorpusSocialSci Centre Director Prof @elenasemino on the metaphor used to talk about cancer @LAEL_LU

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

This is an incredible and invaluable resource for teaching variation in native English varieties (in this case, BrE) on any UG or TPG modules on #GlobalEnglishes and #ELF! @GE_EMI_News

[Corpus for Schools @askcorpus]

Three worksheets and teaching notes on dialect and the effect of region on spoken English now available from #CorpusForSchools website. #EngLang students can also type in any words to see how often they are used across different UK regions. https://t.co/oVnhKqELx4…
@LAEL_LU

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

@TonyMcEnery I wouldn’t hazard a guess but I would hope it’s my beloved Lancaster University🤔...could you enlighten me please?

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

Just updated the reading list with this forthcoming new title as compulsory reading for my introductory UG course Analysing Discourse @HKUniversity 😊The chapters on #CA, #CDA, #ethnography, #SFL, and #mediateddiscourse analysis will be useful for my first yr students!

[Christopher Hart @_chris_hart]

I've spent all day compiling the index for this book. How the hell is it possible that I've only got as far as 'corpora'. I hate indexing but it is such an important feature of a good text or reference book. https://t.co/aHENguDAkm

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

@Palgrave_Ling Thx very much indeed, @AdinaS_ZH, for this @Palgrave_Ling monograph - it couldn’t have come at a better time for #HongKong which is presently in the throes of a political crisis that has long been feared by HKers who migrated to #SanFrancisco #Chinatown in the ‘80s and ‘90s! 😊

[Palgrave Language and Linguistics @Palgrave_Ling]

It’s the Monday edition of ‘Happy @Palgrave_ Authors Holding Their Books at #IPrA219’, featuring Haruko Cook, @wlymay, @Carotagg and @cliff_goddard! #books

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

Thrilled to bits to have met (finally!) the lovely and talented Cathy Scott, #Language and #Linguistics Editor, from @Palgrave_Ling at #IPrA2019 conf @HKPolyUENGL! Can’t thank her enough for her help with my newly published #Pivot! Hope you enjoy your stay in #HongKong, Cathy 🤗

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

Very pleased to have my two #Pivot monographs #HongKongEnglish (https://t.co/rkFT8znv8M) and #MultimodalCommunication (https://t.co/m7LlHd0g8O) displayed in the @Palgrave_Ling stand at #IPrA2019 conf @HKPolyUENGL! 😊

[Palgrave Language and Linguistics @Palgrave_Ling]

All set up for the start of #IPrA2019 this morning! We’re based on the FJ podium level, just behind the registration desk. The books are sweating slightly, and so am I. Come and visit the @Palgrave_ stand! #conference #HongKong

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

@Palgrave_Ling I cannot thank @Palgrave_Ling enough for publishing my work! 💜My #Pivot project started over a decade ago (see acknowledgements) for which I wholeheartedly thank my PhD supervisor @TonyMcEnery whose vision for interdisciplinary research has been phenomenal and truly inspiring!

[Palgrave Language and Linguistics @Palgrave_Ling]

A brand new #PalgravePivot by @wlymay has just been #PublishedByPalgrave: 'Multimodal Communication'!

This book demonstrates the importance of social context to meaning making and social semiotic multimodal analysis.

Find out more and get your copy: https://t.co/dKp1mpfMq7

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

Intellectually stimulating talk on auditor design and digital surveillance by @enrodney @HKUniversity! Very interesting how multimodal affordances mediated through smartphone as auditor can be deployed to position audiences into different recipient roles (addressee, eavesdropper)

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

@Palgrave_Ling Thanks very much for sharing the news - this seems to be an opportune moment for remembering my first #Pivot when the second one is on the way! And, a big thank-you to the reviewer Zhang Guichao for his kind words :)

[Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina]

Remembering great work of Richard Xiao. Just out: a study on the acquisition of the Chinese particle le in Guangwai Lancaster Corpus of L2 Chinese, a corpus project Richard initiated https://t.co/TSJnT6D8hF

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

Just read this awe-inspiring paper on #Translanguaging by @professorliwei1, offering a revolutionary insight into #WorldEnglishes and #multimodality. Thanks for making it #openaccess! https://t.co/SCHYf8qRam

[May L-Y Wong @maylywong]

@elenasemino @LAEL_LU Thanks so much for doing it - it’s very much appreciated! Marjorie is such a gem and a great help to us RPGs on so many fronts!