Brian Hok-Shing Chan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1498698 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brian Hok-Shing Chan |
| NOMBRES | Brian Hok-Shing |
| APELLIDO | Chan |
| FIRMA | CHAN B H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Macau |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9621-1950 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
‘English’ in Hong Kong barscapes
This article explores the use of English in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Hong Kong through walking ethnography across bars. It examines the diverse representations of English in barscapes and identifies five categories, namely, standardised, transliterated, translanguaging, trans-scriptal, and new orthographic English. Drawing on Järlehed’s ideological complexes, we highlight how these English modes in Hong Kong’s superdiverse barscapes refle…
Institutional identity in a liminal schoolscape
The university at the focus of this study, located on mainland China and governed by Macao, while remaining internationally-oriented, exemplifies a liminal space shaped by the intersection of geography, governance, and university autonomy. This study examines how institutional identity is dynamically enacted in the university schoolscape by analysing public signage across the campus. Drawing on photographic data, the study analyses how different …
Enregistering translanguaging as a named language
Kongish, the practice of mixing romanized Cantonese and English (including standard and non-standard forms) on Kongish Daily , an online platform, has attracted much academic interest, with existing studies adopting a translanguaging lens to examine the creativity, ludicity, and criticality of Kongish. Taking a different perspective, this paper argues that translanguaging per se may not adequately capture the meaning-making processes of Kongish a…
Repertoire on the move
Recent works on family language policy (FLP) have shed much insight on the actions, emotions and ideologies involved in language maintenance and shift at the familial scale. However, in-depth discussions about how language is conceptualized either by the researcher or by the participants remain relatively underdelivered (Wang & Hatoss [2024]. Language policy and planning for heritage language maintenance: A scoping review. Current Issues in Langu…
Little Lhasa’ in the lens of dialogised heteroglossia – centrifugal and centripetal forces shaping its linguistic/semiotic landscape
Due to its geographic location and historical development, Chengdu, in Southwest China, has become a centre of Tibetan activity outside of the Tibetan Region. Influenced by globalisation and religious factors, the Tibetan-populated community of Jiangxi Street has attracted Buddhists, traders, and merchants from South Asia and Southeast Asia. Known as ‘Little Lhasa’, this migrant area is a micro-cosmopolitan space and a prime example of ethnic enc…
Borrowing or code-switching? Single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese
With reference to a dataset of single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese, this article re-examines the controversial distinction between single-word code-switches and lexical borrowing. These English prepositions may bring along syntactic structures of English into Cantonese, but they may also be morphosyntactically integrated into Cantonese and behave as verbs or coverbs. Accordingly, it is virtually impossible to pin down these pr…
Disguise, confrontation, and playfulness
Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory
"Graffiti" on protective gear in China's Covidscape
Orthographic variation / and Macau identity
This study examines the orthographic variation between the place name and in English texts in Macau and its interaction with social factors. Using Sebba’s framework of Orthographic Regimes, a statistical analysis was conducted to explore the usage of the two orthographic variants across three levels of orthographic regimes, namely, highly-regulated (HR) government writings, less-regulated (LR) school writings and lesser-regulated (LRR) online tex…
Constructional Borrowing From English in Hong Kong Cantonese
Previous research on Cantonese-English contact in Hong Kong has focused on lexical phenomena, primarily lexical borrowing and intra-sentential, single-word code-switching (or code-mixing). Although code-switching may also involve longer English phrases, the English elements are mostly inserted into Cantonese-framed sentences in accordance with the Matrix Language Frame/MLF Model. In other words, the syntax of Cantonese appears to be largely intac…
Entextualizing high energy texts
Recently, there has been a surging interest in meaning-making processes in Chinese social media. However, most studies focus on the current contexts, ignoring the process of entextualization, that is, how semiotic resources have been decontextualized from the original/prior contexts and recontextualized in the current Chinese social media context. This paper intends to fill this gap by studying an example of entextualization coupled with modal sh…
Collective colouring in danmu comments on Bilibili
Linguistic landscape in transnational areas
Not only does language practice in shop signs generate a sense of place with particular meanings to visitors, it also indicates the kind of economic activity performed in that place. By investigating and comparing the shop name signs in the two largest foreign migrant neighbourhoods in Guangzhou, specifically, Baohan Straight Street (African community) and Yuanjing Road (Korean community), this study aims to reveal the distinctive economic patter…
Translanguaging or code-switching
The emergence of “translanguaging” as a concept referring to bilingual practices has challenged the appropriateness of “code-switching” – the term that has been most influential in studies of bilingualism and language mixing. Reassessing the literature on Cantonese-English mixing in Hong Kong, this paper suggests that the kind of spontaneous code-switching in peer talk, largely intra-sentential (or intra-clausal) and intra-turn, can indeed be rec…
Differentiating graffiti in Macao
Multimodal graffiti are constrained by the environment in which they are written and by the activities in which graffiti writing takes place. This article examines graffiti collected in Graffiti Park and Nam Van Lake Underground in Macao. The graffiti in the two sites display systematic differences in topics, objectives, subjects, affordance, texture and framing, which are attributed to varied activity types and the multimodality/materiality of p…
Pedagogical translanguaging in a trilingual context
This paper examines the translanguaging practice of two EFL teachers in a Xinjiang university, where English and Mandarin Chinese are predominant but Uyghur is minoritised as a medium of instruction. We focus on data in which the teachers translanguage across all three languages and make a case for the conception of pedagogical translanguaging which is differentiated from spontaneous translanguaging and in which named languages (or naming languag…
Protest graffiti, social movements and changing participation frameworks
As a type of written discourse without guaranteed readership and response, protest graffiti nonetheless projects a participation framework in which protesters address different participants, including not only the government but also other potential ‘participants’ in the social/cultural/political context. This paper studies a dataset of graffiti associated with a protest movement in Macao, China. A survey of the longitudinal data reveals that the…
Single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese
This paper proposes a structural borrowing account for a lexicogrammatical phenomenon whereby, in on ongoing Cantonese discourse, the use of a single-word English preposition triggers and activates an English construction, specifically an NP COP P NP sequence, and brings it into that discourse. The borrowed structure eventually converges with Cantonese, with the English preposition reanalyzed as a verb or a coverb. It is further suggested that th…
Translanguaging in multimodal Macao posters
Aims: This paper suggests a framework of separate and flexible multilingualism to describe multilingual phenomena in Macao. The aims are to capture both conventional and creative language practice and to explore what exactly is the state of multilingualism in modern Macao under the context of globalization, and more specifically how we can capture variation in multilingual practice. Methodology: The objectives are achieved by analyzing the interp…
The shaping of a multilingual landscape by shop names
The tourist city of Macao is small but rich in cultures characterised by contrasts between the traditional and the modern, East and West, local and international. This paper captures some of these contrasts as constructed through its multilingual landscape, focusing on shop names. Whereas many shop names are characterised by destandardisation, iconisation or translanguaging, there is also noticeable variation according to different spaces, in par…
A diachronic-functional approach to explaining grammatical patterns in code-switching
One major controversy in the study of code-switching (CS) has been the treatment of structural regularities or patterns. Formal approaches attribute these patterns to syntactic constraints or models that are independent of socio-pragmatic or discourse factors, and hence they fall short of accounting for the variation and diachrony of CS constructions. Functional approaches call for due consideration of inter- and intra-speaker variation and disco…
Hong Kong English
This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers. As a former British colony, Hong Kong used English as the language of government, law and education in the early days of colonial rule. Since the Handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997, it is no longer used as the primary language of government. However, the status of English has survived the decline of colonial …
English in Hong Kong Cantopop
Code-switching research has focused on spontaneous conversation, and code-switching has often been seen as a consequence of bilinguals attending to and extending the "macro" status and functions of the two languages in society, attitudes towards these languages, and their cultural connotations, for instance, the "we-code" vs. "they-code" distinction. In the Hong Kong context, code-switching to English has been primarily considered as quoting "Wes…
Code-switching, word order and the lexical/functional category distinction
English in Hong Kong Cantopop
Code-switching research has focused on spontaneous conversation, and code-switching has often been seen as a consequence of bilinguals attending to and extending the "macro" status and functions of the two languages in society, attitudes towards these languages, and their cultural connotations, for instance, the "we-code" vs. "they-code" distinction. In the Hong Kong context, code-switching to English has been primarily considered as quoting "Wes…
The shaping of a multilingual landscape by shop names
The tourist city of Macao is small but rich in cultures characterised by contrasts between the traditional and the modern, East and West, local and international. This paper captures some of these contrasts as constructed through its multilingual landscape, focusing on shop names. Whereas many shop names are characterised by destandardisation, iconisation or translanguaging, there is also noticeable variation according to different spaces, in par…
Code-switching, word order and the lexical/functional category distinction
Linguistic landscape in transnational areas
Not only does language practice in shop signs generate a sense of place with particular meanings to visitors, it also indicates the kind of economic activity performed in that place. By investigating and comparing the shop name signs in the two largest foreign migrant neighbourhoods in Guangzhou, specifically, Baohan Straight Street (African community) and Yuanjing Road (Korean community), this study aims to reveal the distinctive economic patter…
Differentiating graffiti in Macao
Multimodal graffiti are constrained by the environment in which they are written and by the activities in which graffiti writing takes place. This article examines graffiti collected in Graffiti Park and Nam Van Lake Underground in Macao. The graffiti in the two sites display systematic differences in topics, objectives, subjects, affordance, texture and framing, which are attributed to varied activity types and the multimodality/materiality of p…
Pedagogical translanguaging in a trilingual context
This paper examines the translanguaging practice of two EFL teachers in a Xinjiang university, where English and Mandarin Chinese are predominant but Uyghur is minoritised as a medium of instruction. We focus on data in which the teachers translanguage across all three languages and make a case for the conception of pedagogical translanguaging which is differentiated from spontaneous translanguaging and in which named languages (or naming languag…
Protest graffiti, social movements and changing participation frameworks
As a type of written discourse without guaranteed readership and response, protest graffiti nonetheless projects a participation framework in which protesters address different participants, including not only the government but also other potential ‘participants’ in the social/cultural/political context. This paper studies a dataset of graffiti associated with a protest movement in Macao, China. A survey of the longitudinal data reveals that the…
"Beyond "Contextualization
Contextualization cue" seems to be the one notion that has been unanimously accepted in recent literature on the pragmatic motivations of code-switching. This article argues that in view of the wealth of new data analyzed the original conception of contextualization cue can no longer be taken for granted. In particular, it is argued here that code-switching does not necessarily "index" or "signal" certain contextual presuppositions. In addition, …
Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory
Collective colouring in danmu comments on Bilibili
"Beyond "Contextualization
Contextualization cue" seems to be the one notion that has been unanimously accepted in recent literature on the pragmatic motivations of code-switching. This article argues that in view of the wealth of new data analyzed the original conception of contextualization cue can no longer be taken for granted. In particular, it is argued here that code-switching does not necessarily "index" or "signal" certain contextual presuppositions. In addition, …
Code-switching, word order and the lexical/functional category distinction
English in Hong Kong Cantopop
Code-switching research has focused on spontaneous conversation, and code-switching has often been seen as a consequence of bilinguals attending to and extending the "macro" status and functions of the two languages in society, attitudes towards these languages, and their cultural connotations, for instance, the "we-code" vs. "they-code" distinction. In the Hong Kong context, code-switching to English has been primarily considered as quoting "Wes…
Hong Kong English
This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers. As a former British colony, Hong Kong used English as the language of government, law and education in the early days of colonial rule. Since the Handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997, it is no longer used as the primary language of government. However, the status of English has survived the decline of colonial …
A diachronic-functional approach to explaining grammatical patterns in code-switching
One major controversy in the study of code-switching (CS) has been the treatment of structural regularities or patterns. Formal approaches attribute these patterns to syntactic constraints or models that are independent of socio-pragmatic or discourse factors, and hence they fall short of accounting for the variation and diachrony of CS constructions. Functional approaches call for due consideration of inter- and intra-speaker variation and disco…
The shaping of a multilingual landscape by shop names
The tourist city of Macao is small but rich in cultures characterised by contrasts between the traditional and the modern, East and West, local and international. This paper captures some of these contrasts as constructed through its multilingual landscape, focusing on shop names. Whereas many shop names are characterised by destandardisation, iconisation or translanguaging, there is also noticeable variation according to different spaces, in par…
Translanguaging in multimodal Macao posters
Aims: This paper suggests a framework of separate and flexible multilingualism to describe multilingual phenomena in Macao. The aims are to capture both conventional and creative language practice and to explore what exactly is the state of multilingualism in modern Macao under the context of globalization, and more specifically how we can capture variation in multilingual practice. Methodology: The objectives are achieved by analyzing the interp…
Single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese
This paper proposes a structural borrowing account for a lexicogrammatical phenomenon whereby, in on ongoing Cantonese discourse, the use of a single-word English preposition triggers and activates an English construction, specifically an NP COP P NP sequence, and brings it into that discourse. The borrowed structure eventually converges with Cantonese, with the English preposition reanalyzed as a verb or a coverb. It is further suggested that th…
Translanguaging or code-switching
The emergence of “translanguaging” as a concept referring to bilingual practices has challenged the appropriateness of “code-switching” – the term that has been most influential in studies of bilingualism and language mixing. Reassessing the literature on Cantonese-English mixing in Hong Kong, this paper suggests that the kind of spontaneous code-switching in peer talk, largely intra-sentential (or intra-clausal) and intra-turn, can indeed be rec…
Differentiating graffiti in Macao
Multimodal graffiti are constrained by the environment in which they are written and by the activities in which graffiti writing takes place. This article examines graffiti collected in Graffiti Park and Nam Van Lake Underground in Macao. The graffiti in the two sites display systematic differences in topics, objectives, subjects, affordance, texture and framing, which are attributed to varied activity types and the multimodality/materiality of p…
Pedagogical translanguaging in a trilingual context
This paper examines the translanguaging practice of two EFL teachers in a Xinjiang university, where English and Mandarin Chinese are predominant but Uyghur is minoritised as a medium of instruction. We focus on data in which the teachers translanguage across all three languages and make a case for the conception of pedagogical translanguaging which is differentiated from spontaneous translanguaging and in which named languages (or naming languag…
Protest graffiti, social movements and changing participation frameworks
As a type of written discourse without guaranteed readership and response, protest graffiti nonetheless projects a participation framework in which protesters address different participants, including not only the government but also other potential ‘participants’ in the social/cultural/political context. This paper studies a dataset of graffiti associated with a protest movement in Macao, China. A survey of the longitudinal data reveals that the…
Constructional Borrowing From English in Hong Kong Cantonese
Previous research on Cantonese-English contact in Hong Kong has focused on lexical phenomena, primarily lexical borrowing and intra-sentential, single-word code-switching (or code-mixing). Although code-switching may also involve longer English phrases, the English elements are mostly inserted into Cantonese-framed sentences in accordance with the Matrix Language Frame/MLF Model. In other words, the syntax of Cantonese appears to be largely intac…
Entextualizing high energy texts
Recently, there has been a surging interest in meaning-making processes in Chinese social media. However, most studies focus on the current contexts, ignoring the process of entextualization, that is, how semiotic resources have been decontextualized from the original/prior contexts and recontextualized in the current Chinese social media context. This paper intends to fill this gap by studying an example of entextualization coupled with modal sh…
Collective colouring in danmu comments on Bilibili
Linguistic landscape in transnational areas
Not only does language practice in shop signs generate a sense of place with particular meanings to visitors, it also indicates the kind of economic activity performed in that place. By investigating and comparing the shop name signs in the two largest foreign migrant neighbourhoods in Guangzhou, specifically, Baohan Straight Street (African community) and Yuanjing Road (Korean community), this study aims to reveal the distinctive economic patter…
Orthographic variation / and Macau identity
This study examines the orthographic variation between the place name and in English texts in Macau and its interaction with social factors. Using Sebba’s framework of Orthographic Regimes, a statistical analysis was conducted to explore the usage of the two orthographic variants across three levels of orthographic regimes, namely, highly-regulated (HR) government writings, less-regulated (LR) school writings and lesser-regulated (LRR) online tex…
Borrowing or code-switching? Single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese
With reference to a dataset of single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese, this article re-examines the controversial distinction between single-word code-switches and lexical borrowing. These English prepositions may bring along syntactic structures of English into Cantonese, but they may also be morphosyntactically integrated into Cantonese and behave as verbs or coverbs. Accordingly, it is virtually impossible to pin down these pr…
Disguise, confrontation, and playfulness
Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory
"Graffiti" on protective gear in China's Covidscape
‘English’ in Hong Kong barscapes
This article explores the use of English in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Hong Kong through walking ethnography across bars. It examines the diverse representations of English in barscapes and identifies five categories, namely, standardised, transliterated, translanguaging, trans-scriptal, and new orthographic English. Drawing on Järlehed’s ideological complexes, we highlight how these English modes in Hong Kong’s superdiverse barscapes refle…
Institutional identity in a liminal schoolscape
The university at the focus of this study, located on mainland China and governed by Macao, while remaining internationally-oriented, exemplifies a liminal space shaped by the intersection of geography, governance, and university autonomy. This study examines how institutional identity is dynamically enacted in the university schoolscape by analysing public signage across the campus. Drawing on photographic data, the study analyses how different …
Enregistering translanguaging as a named language
Kongish, the practice of mixing romanized Cantonese and English (including standard and non-standard forms) on Kongish Daily , an online platform, has attracted much academic interest, with existing studies adopting a translanguaging lens to examine the creativity, ludicity, and criticality of Kongish. Taking a different perspective, this paper argues that translanguaging per se may not adequately capture the meaning-making processes of Kongish a…
Repertoire on the move
Recent works on family language policy (FLP) have shed much insight on the actions, emotions and ideologies involved in language maintenance and shift at the familial scale. However, in-depth discussions about how language is conceptualized either by the researcher or by the participants remain relatively underdelivered (Wang & Hatoss [2024]. Language policy and planning for heritage language maintenance: A scoping review. Current Issues in Langu…
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