Dennis Chau
Biographic Data
| ID | 747835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Chau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Chau |
| SIGNATURE | CHAU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8618-8689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Linguistic ridicule and shifting indexical values on social media: The case of English in Hong Kong
This article examines the online reaction to the linguistic performance of a pro-China Hong Kong singer-actor in a commercial where he speaks Hong Kong English. Paradoxically, the posters criticizing his English are Hongkongers themselves, while those showing admiration are mainland Chinese. Understanding this paradox requires an appreciation of the multiple and complex orders of indexicality through which the variety is evaluated and of the incr…
Metalinguistic tactics in the Hong Kong protest movement
This paper explores the metalinguistic tactics used by Hong Kong protesters in 2014 and 2019 and how they reflected and exploited a range of dominant ideologies about language in the city. These tactics are considered both in terms of their rhetorical utility in the “message war” between protesters and authorities, and their significance in the broader sociolinguistic context of Hong Kong. The analysis reveals how such tactics entailed both oppor…
‘I’m not a tech person’: Negotiation of academic personas in polymedia environments
This study contributes to existing research on polymedia by probing into what we call academic polymedia , investigating the constant availability of interpersonal, professional, and social media for constructing scholarly personas. Drawing on the technobiographical narratives of a group of Hong Kong bilingual academics, we analyze academics’ perceptions of their media choices as situated in their professional polymedia environments. In particula…
Spreading language ideologies through social media: Enregistering the 'fake ABC' variety in Hong Kong
This paper explores how language ideologies are disseminated on social media through examining the enregisterment of a pseudo-variety of language attributed to people in Hong Kong who are supposedly trying to act 'Western'. Comments from Facebook discussions about 'fake American-born Chinese' (fake ABC) are analyzed to identify the linguistic features people attribute to these speakers and how their attitudes towards these features reflect larger…
See you soon! ADD OIL AR: Code-switching for face-work in edu-social Facebook groups
Language as pride, love, and hate: Archiving emotions through multilingual Instagram hashtags
Discursive construction of identities in a social network-educational space: Insights from an undergraduate Facebook group for a linguistics course
Spreading language ideologies through social media: Enregistering the 'fake ABC' variety in Hong Kong
This paper explores how language ideologies are disseminated on social media through examining the enregisterment of a pseudo-variety of language attributed to people in Hong Kong who are supposedly trying to act 'Western'. Comments from Facebook discussions about 'fake American-born Chinese' (fake ABC) are analyzed to identify the linguistic features people attribute to these speakers and how their attitudes towards these features reflect larger…
Language as pride, love, and hate: Archiving emotions through multilingual Instagram hashtags
Metalinguistic tactics in the Hong Kong protest movement
This paper explores the metalinguistic tactics used by Hong Kong protesters in 2014 and 2019 and how they reflected and exploited a range of dominant ideologies about language in the city. These tactics are considered both in terms of their rhetorical utility in the “message war” between protesters and authorities, and their significance in the broader sociolinguistic context of Hong Kong. The analysis reveals how such tactics entailed both oppor…
See you soon! ADD OIL AR: Code-switching for face-work in edu-social Facebook groups
Discursive construction of identities in a social network-educational space: Insights from an undergraduate Facebook group for a linguistics course
Linguistic ridicule and shifting indexical values on social media: The case of English in Hong Kong
This article examines the online reaction to the linguistic performance of a pro-China Hong Kong singer-actor in a commercial where he speaks Hong Kong English. Paradoxically, the posters criticizing his English are Hongkongers themselves, while those showing admiration are mainland Chinese. Understanding this paradox requires an appreciation of the multiple and complex orders of indexicality through which the variety is evaluated and of the incr…
Language as pride, love, and hate: Archiving emotions through multilingual Instagram hashtags
Discursive construction of identities in a social network-educational space: Insights from an undergraduate Facebook group for a linguistics course
‘I’m not a tech person’: Negotiation of academic personas in polymedia environments
This study contributes to existing research on polymedia by probing into what we call academic polymedia , investigating the constant availability of interpersonal, professional, and social media for constructing scholarly personas. Drawing on the technobiographical narratives of a group of Hong Kong bilingual academics, we analyze academics’ perceptions of their media choices as situated in their professional polymedia environments. In particula…
Spreading language ideologies through social media: Enregistering the 'fake ABC' variety in Hong Kong
This paper explores how language ideologies are disseminated on social media through examining the enregisterment of a pseudo-variety of language attributed to people in Hong Kong who are supposedly trying to act 'Western'. Comments from Facebook discussions about 'fake American-born Chinese' (fake ABC) are analyzed to identify the linguistic features people attribute to these speakers and how their attitudes towards these features reflect larger…
See you soon! ADD OIL AR: Code-switching for face-work in edu-social Facebook groups
Metalinguistic tactics in the Hong Kong protest movement
This paper explores the metalinguistic tactics used by Hong Kong protesters in 2014 and 2019 and how they reflected and exploited a range of dominant ideologies about language in the city. These tactics are considered both in terms of their rhetorical utility in the “message war” between protesters and authorities, and their significance in the broader sociolinguistic context of Hong Kong. The analysis reveals how such tactics entailed both oppor…
Linguistic ridicule and shifting indexical values on social media: The case of English in Hong Kong
This article examines the online reaction to the linguistic performance of a pro-China Hong Kong singer-actor in a commercial where he speaks Hong Kong English. Paradoxically, the posters criticizing his English are Hongkongers themselves, while those showing admiration are mainland Chinese. Understanding this paradox requires an appreciation of the multiple and complex orders of indexicality through which the variety is evaluated and of the incr…
Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Digital Communication and Language (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Law (3 works)