Loretta Fung
Biographic Data
| ID | 6223299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loretta Fung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loretta |
| FAMILY NAME | Fung |
| SIGNATURE | FUNG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9506-1695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Role of Import Intermediaries in Canada
Cet article étudie de manière empirique le rôle des intermédiaires dans le secteur de l’importation au Canada et examine la manière dont les politiques publiques peuvent les affecter. Entre autres résultats notables de l’étude, il se dégage que les intermédiaires jouent un rôle très différent de celui des fabricants et des détaillants en ce qui concerne les produits différenciés et complexes, mais que leur rôle est qualitativement le même dans le…
An Empirical Examination of the Effect of Covid-19 Travel Restrictions on Canadians’ Cross-Border Travel and Canadian Retailers
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been devastating for many Canadian retailers. In this article, we estimate the offsetting positive effects of decreased international travel by Canadians on retail revenues. We use data from 1991 to 2021 on Canadians' travel to the United States to estimate a model of cross-border travel and establish community-level counterfactual staying rates had the pandemic not occurred. Combined with actu…
Discourse Markers and Spoken English
This study examines and compares the production of discourse markers by native speakers and learners of English based on a pedagogic sub-corpus from CANCODE, a corpus of spoken British English, and a corpus of interactive classroom discourse of secondary pupils in Hong Kong. The results indicate that in both groups discourse markers serve as useful interactional manoeuvres to structure and organize speech on interpersonal, referential, structural…
Cantonese e-discourse
While English remains the most dominant language used on the Internet, studies have primarily investigated computer-mediated interactions in English. Little linguistic research has, however, investigated how English and other languages interact online. Based on a 20,000-word corpus of private ICQ (‘I Seek You’) data, this paper analyses the online linguistic strategies and features of eighteen NNS university students from Hong Kong studying in Br…
Cantonese e-discourse
While English remains the most dominant language used on the Internet, studies have primarily investigated computer-mediated interactions in English. Little linguistic research has, however, investigated how English and other languages interact online. Based on a 20,000-word corpus of private ICQ (‘I Seek You’) data, this paper analyses the online linguistic strategies and features of eighteen NNS university students from Hong Kong studying in Br…
An Empirical Examination of the Effect of Covid-19 Travel Restrictions on Canadians’ Cross-Border Travel and Canadian Retailers
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been devastating for many Canadian retailers. In this article, we estimate the offsetting positive effects of decreased international travel by Canadians on retail revenues. We use data from 1991 to 2021 on Canadians' travel to the United States to estimate a model of cross-border travel and establish community-level counterfactual staying rates had the pandemic not occurred. Combined with actu…
Discourse Markers and Spoken English
This study examines and compares the production of discourse markers by native speakers and learners of English based on a pedagogic sub-corpus from CANCODE, a corpus of spoken British English, and a corpus of interactive classroom discourse of secondary pupils in Hong Kong. The results indicate that in both groups discourse markers serve as useful interactional manoeuvres to structure and organize speech on interpersonal, referential, structural…
Cantonese e-discourse
While English remains the most dominant language used on the Internet, studies have primarily investigated computer-mediated interactions in English. Little linguistic research has, however, investigated how English and other languages interact online. Based on a 20,000-word corpus of private ICQ (‘I Seek You’) data, this paper analyses the online linguistic strategies and features of eighteen NNS university students from Hong Kong studying in Br…
An Empirical Examination of the Effect of Covid-19 Travel Restrictions on Canadians’ Cross-Border Travel and Canadian Retailers
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been devastating for many Canadian retailers. In this article, we estimate the offsetting positive effects of decreased international travel by Canadians on retail revenues. We use data from 1991 to 2021 on Canadians' travel to the United States to estimate a model of cross-border travel and establish community-level counterfactual staying rates had the pandemic not occurred. Combined with actu…
On the Role of Import Intermediaries in Canada
Cet article étudie de manière empirique le rôle des intermédiaires dans le secteur de l’importation au Canada et examine la manière dont les politiques publiques peuvent les affecter. Entre autres résultats notables de l’étude, il se dégage que les intermédiaires jouent un rôle très différent de celui des fabricants et des détaillants en ce qui concerne les produits différenciés et complexes, mais que leur rôle est qualitativement le même dans le…
Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Applied linguistics (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)