John Flowerdew
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Flowerdew |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Flowerdew |
| SIGNATURE | FLOWERDEW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2072-9125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
John Flowerdew's essential bookshelf: English for research publication purposes (ERPP)
John Flowerdew is a Visiting Chair at the University of Lancaster and a Visiting Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He was previously a Professor at City University of Hong Kong and at the University of Leeds, UK. His research is in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. His books include Academic listening: Research perspectives (CUP); Research perspectives on English for academic purposes (with M. Peacock) (CU…
Data-driven learning: From Collins Cobuild Dictionary to ChatGPT
The invitation to speak at this conference on corpora and data-driven language learning (DDL) at COSEDI, the University of Grenoble, was received at the beginning of February 2023. ChatGPT had been released on 30 November 2022 and it was already becoming obvious that this technology would present revolutionary opportunities and challenges for corpus applications to language learning. Through a limited number of case studies – the Collins Cobuild …
Critical Analysis of Political Discourse
Political discourse analysis encompasses both a narrower and a broader conception of the term politics, narrower in focusing on the discourse of the government of the state and broader in incorporating all human interactions where power is an issue. Critical discourse studies (CDS) is an approach to discourse analysis which starts with the premise that language is a form of social practice and that, as with all social practices, power is an impor…
Models of English for research publication purposes
English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) is a sub‐field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), itself a sub‐field of applied linguistics. This article considers ERPP from a world Englishes perspective, considering the question as to what sort of English is appropriate for ERPP: the standardised model, as preferred at present, or a varietal, world Englishes, model, which would take more account of the fact that the majority of scholars pu…
Teaching English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP): A review of language teachers’ pedagogical initiatives
Introducing in-service English language teachers to data-driven learning for academic writing
The linguistic disadvantage of scholars who write in English as an additional language: Myth or reality
Academics are coming under increasing pressure to publish internationally. Given the global dominance of English, this very likely means publishing in English-medium journals and with publishers which publish in English. This raises the important question of the possible disadvantage of those scholars whose first language is not English and who therefore have the additional burden of having to develop adequate proficiency in an additional languag…
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies
There are two ways to set up a discussion of critical discourse analysis and media studies. First, we would privilege something called Critical Discourse Analysis, the capitalized identity embodied in the acronym\n“CDA”.\n This approach has some obvious advantages. It gives an immediate focus and coherence to the discussion. It suggests reflection on a particular research tradition now well-known across the social sciences. The second approach wo…
Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies
Understanding the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement: A critical discourse historiographical approach
Within the context of a critical discourse historiographical (CDH) approach to critical discourse studies (CDS), this article applies a range of theories to the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, or Hong Kong Occupy Movement, to understand it as a discursive event. The CDH approach argues that a diachronic, historiographical approach can contribute to historiography, the writing of history, in that it can create first readings and interpretations of im…
Corpus-based approaches to language description for specialized academic writing
Language description is a fundamental requirement for second language (L2) syllabus design. The greatest advances in language description in recent decades have been done with the help of electronic corpora. Such language description is the theme of this article. The article first introduces some basic concepts and principles in corpus research. It then reviews some recent corpus studies of relevance to the teaching of English for specific purpos…
Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest
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A historiographical approach to Hong Kong Occupy: Focus on a critical moment
This article is conceptualised within the framework of a historiographical approach to critical discourse analysis (Flowerdew 2012). It focusses on a critical moment in Hong Kong’s socio-political development, the Occupy movement, and a specific language event, an interview on a local Hong Kong English-language television programme discussing the rationale for the movement. A micro-analysis of the interaction focusses on important features of the…
Some thoughts on English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) and related issues
Academic writing for research publication takes place around the globe, involving, according to a recent account, 5.5 million scholars, 2,000 publishers and 17,500 research/higher education institutions (Lillis & Curry 2010: 1). Because so many scholars whose first language is not English are now using English for publication purposes and because of the research interest that has developed in the field, a specialist term has been coined, English …
Academic Discourse
Qualitative Language for Specific Purposes Research
The majority of the languages for specialized purposes (LSP) movement literature have been developed in the context of English.
Critical Analysis of Political Discourse
The term “politics” derives from the Greek πολιτικά (politika) , as used in Aristotle's Politics .
The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal
This chapter focuses on how Chris Patten, the last Hong Kong governor, and the chief animator of Britain’s policy over Hong Kong, used language to achieve his goals in guiding the transition of sovereignty from Britain to China and Britain’s withdrawal from its last major colony. The period covered is April 1992, when Patten was invited by the British prime minister, John Major, to be governor, up to 30 June 1997, when sovereignty was to revert t…
Rhetorical Strategies and Identity Politics in the Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal
In their article on the discursive construction of national identities, de Cillia et al. (1999) state that ‘[t]he idea of a specific national community becomes reality in the realm of convictions and beliefs through reifying figurative discourse continually launched by politicians, intellectuals and media people ...’ Chapter 2 of this book showed how the last British governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, through his powerful oratory, tried to guid…
Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography: The Case of Hong Kong's Evolving Political Identity
The book shows how the study of the evolving discourse employed during a political process spanning more than a decade can provide insights for critical discourse analysis, on the one hand, and unders
Action, content and identity in applied genre analysis for ESP
Genres are staged, structured, communicative events, motivated by various communicative purposes, and performed by members of specific discourse communities (Swales 1990; Bhatia 1993, 2004; Berkenkotter & Huckin 1995). Since its inception, with the two seminal works on the topic by Swales (1990) and Bhatia (1993), genre analysis has taken pride of place in much of the ongoing research in languages for specific purposes (LSP). The goal of much of …
Presumed knowledge in the discursive construction of socio-political and cultural identity
English or Chinese? The trade-off between local and international publication among Chinese academics in the humanities and social sciences
Social Structure and Individual Agency in Second Language Learning: Evidence From Three Life Histories
This paper examines the issue of social structure and individual agency in language learning through the life histories of three young engineering graduates in Hong Kong. English is identified as an important form of cultural capital, which to a considerable extent determines the development of the three individuals, each of whom comes from a modest family background. In spite of the undeniable role of cultural capital (a product of social struct…
A Task‐Based Analysis of Undergraduate Assessment: A Tool for the EAP Practitioner
Discourse Community, Legitimate Peripheral Participation, and the Nonnative-English-Speaking Scholar
This article presents a case study of a nonnative-English-speaking scholar from Hong Kong and his experience in publishing a scholarly article in an international refereed journal on his return from doctoral study in the United States. The investigation is presented as a contribution to the important study of what it means to be a non-anglophone researcher seeking international publication in English but living and researching in a non-anglophone…
On the Notion of Culture in L2 Lectures
This article reports on one aspect of the findings of a 3-year ethnographic study into academic lectures conducted at a university in Hong Kong, where native speakers of English lecture to ethnic Chinese ESL students. Based on ethnographic data, the article develops a framework for the analysis of L2 lectures. The framework has four dimensions: ethnic culture, local culture, academic culture, and disciplinary culture. Each of the dimensions is il…
Attitudes of Journal Editors to Nonnative Speaker Contributions
More and more nonnative speakers (NNSs) are seeking to publish in international journals devoted to English language teaching and applied linguistics. Strong anecdotal evidence and occasional references in the literature attest to the disadvantages NNSs encounter vis-a-vis their native speaker (NS) peers. This article presents the results of an interview study with the editors of 12 leading international journals in applied linguistics and Englis…
Understanding the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement: A critical discourse historiographical approach
Within the context of a critical discourse historiographical (CDH) approach to critical discourse studies (CDS), this article applies a range of theories to the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, or Hong Kong Occupy Movement, to understand it as a discursive event. The CDH approach argues that a diachronic, historiographical approach can contribute to historiography, the writing of history, in that it can create first readings and interpretations of im…
Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography: The Case of Hong Kong's Evolving Political Identity
The book shows how the study of the evolving discourse employed during a political process spanning more than a decade can provide insights for critical discourse analysis, on the one hand, and unders
Description and interpretation in critical discourse analysis
The linguistic disadvantage of scholars who write in English as an additional language: Myth or reality
Academics are coming under increasing pressure to publish internationally. Given the global dominance of English, this very likely means publishing in English-medium journals and with publishers which publish in English. This raises the important question of the possible disadvantage of those scholars whose first language is not English and who therefore have the additional burden of having to develop adequate proficiency in an additional languag…
Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest
Preview this article: Occupy Hong Kong, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jlp.15.5.01flo-1.gif
Rhetorical strategies and identity politics in the discourse of colonial withdrawal
Skilful use of the rhetorical tropes which typify the language of serious political occasions — described here as “rhetorical weight” — is closely associated with charismatic political leaders. This paper studies the political rhetoric of a skilled exponent of the art, Chris Patten, the last British colonial governor of Hong Kong, and shows how he used rhetorical weight to promote his political agenda. Detailed analysis of four segments of Patten…
Identity politics and Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty: Analysing the discourse of Hong Kong's first Chief Executive
Face in cross-cultural political discourse
Sino-British Hong Kong relations during the final troubled five years of British rule in the former British colony provide the context for this case study in cross-cultural political discourse analysis. Application of a model of Chinese face proposed by Bond and Hwang (1986) provides a means for explaining certain aspects of the breakdown in communication that occurred between the Chinese and British Hong Kong governments during that period. The …
Competing public discourses in transitional Hong Kong
Pragmatic modifications on the 'representative' speech act of defining
Introducing in-service English language teachers to data-driven learning for academic writing
A historiographical approach to Hong Kong Occupy: Focus on a critical moment
This article is conceptualised within the framework of a historiographical approach to critical discourse analysis (Flowerdew 2012). It focusses on a critical moment in Hong Kong’s socio-political development, the Occupy movement, and a specific language event, an interview on a local Hong Kong English-language television programme discussing the rationale for the movement. A micro-analysis of the interaction focusses on important features of the…
Reproduction, resistance and joint-production of language power: A Hong Kong case study
Concordancing as a tool in course design
Problems of Speech Act Theory From an Applied Perspective
Speech act theory has been very influential in a number of fields, including applied linguistics. However, there remain a number of fundamental problems within the theory. These concern (1) how many speech acts there are; (2) indirect speech acts and the concept of literal force; (3) the size of speech act realization forms; (4) the contrast between specific and diffuse acts; (5) discrete categories versus scale of meaning; (6) the relation betwe…
Presumed knowledge in the discursive construction of socio-political and cultural identity
Attitudes Towards English and Cantonese among Hong Kong Chinese University Lecturers
This article describes a study that used primarily in-depth interviews to investigate the attitudes of 20 lecturers towards the English medium of instruction policy at a Hong Kong university at the moment of the former British colony's transition to Chinese sovereignty. The results of the study document the overall attitudes of the lecturers towards the policy, their reasons for supporting it, their problems in applying it, and their reported use…
Data-driven learning: From Collins Cobuild Dictionary to ChatGPT
The invitation to speak at this conference on corpora and data-driven language learning (DDL) at COSEDI, the University of Grenoble, was received at the beginning of February 2023. ChatGPT had been released on 30 November 2022 and it was already becoming obvious that this technology would present revolutionary opportunities and challenges for corpus applications to language learning. Through a limited number of case studies – the Collins Cobuild …
Some thoughts on English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) and related issues
Academic writing for research publication takes place around the globe, involving, according to a recent account, 5.5 million scholars, 2,000 publishers and 17,500 research/higher education institutions (Lillis & Curry 2010: 1). Because so many scholars whose first language is not English are now using English for publication purposes and because of the research interest that has developed in the field, a specialist term has been coined, English …
Language Learning Experience in L2 Teacher Education
Throughout this course, what I treasure most is not only a few German words, phrases and expressions I have learnt; the most fruitful benefit is that I can experience what difficulties the second language learners encounter, thus giving me an insight on how to teach second language in a way that helps the students most, based on the general teaching principles that I have generated from German lessons
Discourse and social change in contemporary Hong Kong
This article documents discursive and social change currently taking place in contemporary Hong Kong during the transitional period leading up to the change of sovereignty from Britain to China. It does so by means of a detailed analysis of a political meeting, involving the British Hong Kong governor, Chris Patten, and members of the Hong Kong public. The meeting took place in October, 1992, a day after Patten introduced proposals to widen the d…
Speech acts and language teaching
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Group Work Based on Rhetorical Functions: Some Applications in the Field of English for Science and Technology (Est)
Speech acts and language teaching
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Problems of Speech Act Theory From an Applied Perspective
Speech act theory has been very influential in a number of fields, including applied linguistics. However, there remain a number of fundamental problems within the theory. These concern (1) how many speech acts there are; (2) indirect speech acts and the concept of literal force; (3) the size of speech act realization forms; (4) the contrast between specific and diffuse acts; (5) discrete categories versus scale of meaning; (6) the relation betwe…
Pragmatic modifications on the 'representative' speech act of defining
Concordancing as a tool in course design
On the Notion of Culture in L2 Lectures
This article reports on one aspect of the findings of a 3-year ethnographic study into academic lectures conducted at a university in Hong Kong, where native speakers of English lecture to ethnic Chinese ESL students. Based on ethnographic data, the article develops a framework for the analysis of L2 lectures. The framework has four dimensions: ethnic culture, local culture, academic culture, and disciplinary culture. Each of the dimensions is il…
Discourse and social change in contemporary Hong Kong
This article documents discursive and social change currently taking place in contemporary Hong Kong during the transitional period leading up to the change of sovereignty from Britain to China. It does so by means of a detailed analysis of a political meeting, involving the British Hong Kong governor, Chris Patten, and members of the Hong Kong public. The meeting took place in October, 1992, a day after Patten introduced proposals to widen the d…
The Final Years of British Hong Kong: The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal
- The Die is Cast - Ideology and Values - Conclusion - Index
Public discourse in Hong Kong and the change of sovereignty
Competing public discourses in transitional Hong Kong
Reproduction, resistance and joint-production of language power: A Hong Kong case study
The Final Years of British Hong Kong: The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal
This book critically reviews the British experience in Hong Kong with special emphasis on the tenure of the last governor, Chris Patten, and the discourse he used in guiding the transfer of sovereignt
Language Learning Experience in L2 Teacher Education
Throughout this course, what I treasure most is not only a few German words, phrases and expressions I have learnt; the most fruitful benefit is that I can experience what difficulties the second language learners encounter, thus giving me an insight on how to teach second language in a way that helps the students most, based on the general teaching principles that I have generated from German lessons
Attitudes Towards English and Cantonese among Hong Kong Chinese University Lecturers
This article describes a study that used primarily in-depth interviews to investigate the attitudes of 20 lecturers towards the English medium of instruction policy at a Hong Kong university at the moment of the former British colony's transition to Chinese sovereignty. The results of the study document the overall attitudes of the lecturers towards the policy, their reasons for supporting it, their problems in applying it, and their reported use…
Problems in writing for scholarly publication in English: The case of Hong Kong
The Practicum in L2 Teacher Education: A Hong Kong Case Study
Face in cross-cultural political discourse
Sino-British Hong Kong relations during the final troubled five years of British rule in the former British colony provide the context for this case study in cross-cultural political discourse analysis. Application of a model of Chinese face proposed by Bond and Hwang (1986) provides a means for explaining certain aspects of the breakdown in communication that occurred between the Chinese and British Hong Kong governments during that period. The …
Description and interpretation in critical discourse analysis
Discourse Community, Legitimate Peripheral Participation, and the Nonnative-English-Speaking Scholar
This article presents a case study of a nonnative-English-speaking scholar from Hong Kong and his experience in publishing a scholarly article in an international refereed journal on his return from doctoral study in the United States. The investigation is presented as a contribution to the important study of what it means to be a non-anglophone researcher seeking international publication in English but living and researching in a non-anglophone…
Attitudes of Journal Editors to Nonnative Speaker Contributions
More and more nonnative speakers (NNSs) are seeking to publish in international journals devoted to English language teaching and applied linguistics. Strong anecdotal evidence and occasional references in the literature attest to the disadvantages NNSs encounter vis-a-vis their native speaker (NS) peers. This article presents the results of an interview study with the editors of 12 leading international journals in applied linguistics and Englis…
Rhetorical strategies and identity politics in the discourse of colonial withdrawal
Skilful use of the rhetorical tropes which typify the language of serious political occasions — described here as “rhetorical weight” — is closely associated with charismatic political leaders. This paper studies the political rhetoric of a skilled exponent of the art, Chris Patten, the last British colonial governor of Hong Kong, and shows how he used rhetorical weight to promote his political agenda. Detailed analysis of four segments of Patten…
Identity politics and Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty: Analysing the discourse of Hong Kong's first Chief Executive
Social Structure and Individual Agency in Second Language Learning: Evidence From Three Life Histories
This paper examines the issue of social structure and individual agency in language learning through the life histories of three young engineering graduates in Hong Kong. English is identified as an important form of cultural capital, which to a considerable extent determines the development of the three individuals, each of whom comes from a modest family background. In spite of the undeniable role of cultural capital (a product of social struct…
A Task‐Based Analysis of Undergraduate Assessment: A Tool for the EAP Practitioner
Learning Styles and Performance in Second Language Tasks
Sociology (34 works) · Linguistics (29 works) · Political science (28 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (23 works) · Philosophy (23 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (18 works) · Law (18 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Media studies (17 works)