Janny H C Leung
Biographic Data
| ID | 751344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janny H C Leung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janny H C |
| FAMILY NAME | Leung |
| SIGNATURE | LEUNG J H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7307-4292 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hulstijn, Jan H.
Jan H. Hulstijn (1947– ) is a Dutch scholar whose research is primarily concerned with incidental and intentional second language (L2) vocabulary learning, implicit and explicit L2 grammar learning, automatization of L2 lower‐order processing skills, and language proficiency (LP).
Skehan, Peter
Peter Skehan (1944– ) is a British linguist whose main research focus revolves around individual differences (especially language aptitude) and second language acquisition.
Schmidt, Richard
Richard W. Schmidt (1941–2017) was a versatile linguist whose primary research area was in the role of cognitive and affective factors, such as attention, awareness, and motivation, in adult second language acquisition (SLA) and foreign‐language learning.
Sedition or Mere Dissent? Linguistic Analysis of a Political Slogan
This paper reports the first case in which a linguist served as an expert witness in Hong Kong, a former British colony that has operated as a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1997. The dispute was on the meaning of the political slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times”, which was widely adopted during the 2019–2020 protests. The keywords “liberate” and “revolution” are smoking gun evidence f…
Hurdles and horizons of linguistics for social justice
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Corpus insights into the harmonization of commercial media in China: News coverage of migrant worker issues as a case study
Otter's Journey through Indigenous Language and Law Lindsay Keegitah Borrows (2018)
Otter's Journey through Indigenous Language and Law Lindsay Keegitah Borrows (2018)
Litigating without speaking legalese
The increasing number of unrepresented litigants in various jurisdictions raises the question of what challenges these lay people face in their access to justice. This article seeks to examine this by conducting a small ethnographic study and survey in Hong Kong. Based on 6 hours of courtroom observation in two cases and 8 hours of pre-trial, during trial and post-trial interview data obtained from 7 sessions, we show that unrepresented litigants…
The Life and Death of a Protest Anthem at the Frontier of a New Cold War
Amidst the rise of a new Cold War between China and the US, Hong Kong has been called Ground Zero, the new Berlin, or the Global Frontier by various media outlets. During an ongoing US-China trade war, the Water Movement broke out in 2019. It was the largest and most prolonged social movement that Hong Kong has seen, and one that was met with the direst consequence – the imposition of a sweeping National Security Law that has changed the politica…
You have to teach the judge what to do”: Semiotic gaps between unrepresented litigants and the common law
The courtroom can be seen as a semiotic space where the practice of signs is institutionalized. There are specific ways to perform signs in court, be they verbal (e. g., turn-taking) or nonverbal (e. g., attire). Legal signs communicate and signify differently than their non-legal counterparts. Laypeople may not be aware of such differences, and may encounter a gap between their expectation and the actual practice of legal signs. This is precisel…
Does the world need more Canada? Legal multilingualism and strategic pluralism
Le Canada a la réputation d’être un pays tolérant, caractérisé par \nsa diversité, dont la dualité linguistique constitue un véritable trait national \ndistinctif de sa société pluraliste. Cet article détermine dans quelle mesure \nle bilinguisme juridique, tel qu’il existe au Canada, offre une solution \nintéressante et transposable au reste du monde qui a vu s’accroître le \nbilinguisme et le multilinguisme au cours des dernières décennies. En …
Negotiating language status in multilingual jurisdictions: Rhetoric and reality
About a quarter of legal jurisdictions in the world operate in more than one language. Despite this, language policies governing the functioning of law in such jurisdictions, other than in the European Union, rarely receive much attention in research. Given, however, that the policy contrast between legal monolingualism and multilingualism is often a matter of strategic response to the rising or declining power of one or more particular language …
An empirical study of lay comprehension of Chinese legal reference texts in Hong Kong
This socio-legal study empirically assesses the use of plain language in improving comprehension of legal reference texts by laypeople in Hong Kong, where common-law Chinese was newly engineered. Our study shows that native Chinese speakers have problems understanding the materials, but simple modifications of the texts can significantly improve their comprehension. The results suggest that the seeming incapability of expressing law in a language…
Umbrella Movement
Collection of photographs highlighting the use of the umbrella as a symbol of protest in Hong Kong
Critique of Law in a Martial Arts Thriller: The Peril of Emotions, Limits of Rationality, and Pluralistic Laws
This paper explores the cinematic treatment of a cluster of themes – law, justice, morality, human emotions and social relationships – in what appears in genre to be a fairly straightforward Chinese martial arts film, Wu Xia (2011). The film is atypical for its genre, however, both in the characters it depicts and in the narrative it constructs. In particular, Wu Xia has only three fight scenes and is heavy with dialogue (both in the broad, conve…
Introduction - LTC volume 18
At the time of writing, the Occupy Central Movement (or the ‘Umbrella Revolution’, as it has become known in the international media) is in full swing in Hong Kong. Spearheaded by two professors and a Baptist minister, it dovetailed with local student movements and quickly expanded into a demonstration encompassing people from different walks of Hong Kong society. This movement was sparked by an electoral reform package imposed on Hong Kong by Ch…
Implicit learning of L2 word stress regularities
This article reports an experiment on the implicit learning of second language stress regularities, and presents a methodological innovation on awareness measurement. After practising two-syllable Spanish words, native Cantonese speakers with English as a second language (L2) completed a judgement task. Critical items differed only in placement of stress. We assessed participants’ awareness of the hidden stress regularities by verbal reports and …
The object of fidelity in translating multilingual legislation
Should fidelity in legal translation be judged in terms of approximation to the source text? What are the possible alternatives? Multilingual jurisdictions see great needs in the translation of texts of the law and tend to be particularly concerned with the uniform application of the law in its different renditions. As a response to new sources of legal indeterminacy created by legal multilingualism, approaches to statutory interpretation in mult…
Cross-jurisdiction appropriation of the equal authenticity principle
This paper investigates how the equal authenticity principle, commonly adopted by balanced bilingual or multilingual jurisdictions, changes in meaning, value and function as it travels across jurisdictions with different sociopolitical realities. I illustrate how the framing of the concept has subtly shifted in the process of statutory drafting and interpretation when it was appropriated by the Hong Kong judiciary, in contrast with the way the id…
Judicial discourse in Cantonese courtrooms in postcolonial Hong Kong: The judge as a godfather, scholar, educator and scolding parent
This paper presents how legal bilingualism, especially the use of the local language in postcolonial Hong Kong courtrooms, impacts upon judicial behaviour. Through analysing recent cases where local judges seem to be wearing many new hats, I will explore the dynamic relationship between language code and judicial practice, and argue that the use of their first language has unveiled the human side and the often non-legal ideologies of these judges…
Statutory interpretation in multilingual jurisdictions: Typology and trends
A contemporary phenomenon – multiplicity of authentic sources of law in different languages – complicates the process of statutory interpretation. In multilingual jurisdictions, problems arise when a literal interpretation of authentic versions of the law leads to inconsistent outcomes. Jurisdictions resolve such inconsistency in different ways. This article identifies converging trends and diverging practices in multilingual interpretation by co…
Constraints on Implicit Learning of Grammatical Form-Meaning Connections
Although there is good evidence for implicit learning of associations between forms, little work has investigated implicit learning of form-meaning connections, and the findings are somewhat contradictory. Two experiments were carried out using a novel reaction time methodology to investigate implicit learning of grammatical form-meaning connections. Participants learned four novel articles but were not told about a critical semantic factor that …
Constraints on Implicit Learning of Grammatical Form-Meaning Connections
Although there is good evidence for implicit learning of associations between forms, little work has investigated implicit learning of form-meaning connections, and the findings are somewhat contradictory. Two experiments were carried out using a novel reaction time methodology to investigate implicit learning of grammatical form-meaning connections. Participants learned four novel articles but were not told about a critical semantic factor that …
Corpus insights into the harmonization of commercial media in China: News coverage of migrant worker issues as a case study
Implicit learning of L2 word stress regularities
This article reports an experiment on the implicit learning of second language stress regularities, and presents a methodological innovation on awareness measurement. After practising two-syllable Spanish words, native Cantonese speakers with English as a second language (L2) completed a judgement task. Critical items differed only in placement of stress. We assessed participants’ awareness of the hidden stress regularities by verbal reports and …
Negotiating language status in multilingual jurisdictions: Rhetoric and reality
About a quarter of legal jurisdictions in the world operate in more than one language. Despite this, language policies governing the functioning of law in such jurisdictions, other than in the European Union, rarely receive much attention in research. Given, however, that the policy contrast between legal monolingualism and multilingualism is often a matter of strategic response to the rising or declining power of one or more particular language …
Statutory interpretation in multilingual jurisdictions: Typology and trends
A contemporary phenomenon – multiplicity of authentic sources of law in different languages – complicates the process of statutory interpretation. In multilingual jurisdictions, problems arise when a literal interpretation of authentic versions of the law leads to inconsistent outcomes. Jurisdictions resolve such inconsistency in different ways. This article identifies converging trends and diverging practices in multilingual interpretation by co…
Judicial discourse in Cantonese courtrooms in postcolonial Hong Kong: The judge as a godfather, scholar, educator and scolding parent
This paper presents how legal bilingualism, especially the use of the local language in postcolonial Hong Kong courtrooms, impacts upon judicial behaviour. Through analysing recent cases where local judges seem to be wearing many new hats, I will explore the dynamic relationship between language code and judicial practice, and argue that the use of their first language has unveiled the human side and the often non-legal ideologies of these judges…
Statutory interpretation in multilingual jurisdictions: Typology and trends
A contemporary phenomenon – multiplicity of authentic sources of law in different languages – complicates the process of statutory interpretation. In multilingual jurisdictions, problems arise when a literal interpretation of authentic versions of the law leads to inconsistent outcomes. Jurisdictions resolve such inconsistency in different ways. This article identifies converging trends and diverging practices in multilingual interpretation by co…
Constraints on Implicit Learning of Grammatical Form-Meaning Connections
Although there is good evidence for implicit learning of associations between forms, little work has investigated implicit learning of form-meaning connections, and the findings are somewhat contradictory. Two experiments were carried out using a novel reaction time methodology to investigate implicit learning of grammatical form-meaning connections. Participants learned four novel articles but were not told about a critical semantic factor that …
Cross-jurisdiction appropriation of the equal authenticity principle
This paper investigates how the equal authenticity principle, commonly adopted by balanced bilingual or multilingual jurisdictions, changes in meaning, value and function as it travels across jurisdictions with different sociopolitical realities. I illustrate how the framing of the concept has subtly shifted in the process of statutory drafting and interpretation when it was appropriated by the Hong Kong judiciary, in contrast with the way the id…
Umbrella Movement
Collection of photographs highlighting the use of the umbrella as a symbol of protest in Hong Kong
Critique of Law in a Martial Arts Thriller: The Peril of Emotions, Limits of Rationality, and Pluralistic Laws
This paper explores the cinematic treatment of a cluster of themes – law, justice, morality, human emotions and social relationships – in what appears in genre to be a fairly straightforward Chinese martial arts film, Wu Xia (2011). The film is atypical for its genre, however, both in the characters it depicts and in the narrative it constructs. In particular, Wu Xia has only three fight scenes and is heavy with dialogue (both in the broad, conve…
Introduction - LTC volume 18
At the time of writing, the Occupy Central Movement (or the ‘Umbrella Revolution’, as it has become known in the international media) is in full swing in Hong Kong. Spearheaded by two professors and a Baptist minister, it dovetailed with local student movements and quickly expanded into a demonstration encompassing people from different walks of Hong Kong society. This movement was sparked by an electoral reform package imposed on Hong Kong by Ch…
Implicit learning of L2 word stress regularities
This article reports an experiment on the implicit learning of second language stress regularities, and presents a methodological innovation on awareness measurement. After practising two-syllable Spanish words, native Cantonese speakers with English as a second language (L2) completed a judgement task. Critical items differed only in placement of stress. We assessed participants’ awareness of the hidden stress regularities by verbal reports and …
The object of fidelity in translating multilingual legislation
Should fidelity in legal translation be judged in terms of approximation to the source text? What are the possible alternatives? Multilingual jurisdictions see great needs in the translation of texts of the law and tend to be particularly concerned with the uniform application of the law in its different renditions. As a response to new sources of legal indeterminacy created by legal multilingualism, approaches to statutory interpretation in mult…
An empirical study of lay comprehension of Chinese legal reference texts in Hong Kong
This socio-legal study empirically assesses the use of plain language in improving comprehension of legal reference texts by laypeople in Hong Kong, where common-law Chinese was newly engineered. Our study shows that native Chinese speakers have problems understanding the materials, but simple modifications of the texts can significantly improve their comprehension. The results suggest that the seeming incapability of expressing law in a language…
Negotiating language status in multilingual jurisdictions: Rhetoric and reality
About a quarter of legal jurisdictions in the world operate in more than one language. Despite this, language policies governing the functioning of law in such jurisdictions, other than in the European Union, rarely receive much attention in research. Given, however, that the policy contrast between legal monolingualism and multilingualism is often a matter of strategic response to the rising or declining power of one or more particular language …
You have to teach the judge what to do”: Semiotic gaps between unrepresented litigants and the common law
The courtroom can be seen as a semiotic space where the practice of signs is institutionalized. There are specific ways to perform signs in court, be they verbal (e. g., turn-taking) or nonverbal (e. g., attire). Legal signs communicate and signify differently than their non-legal counterparts. Laypeople may not be aware of such differences, and may encounter a gap between their expectation and the actual practice of legal signs. This is precisel…
Does the world need more Canada? Legal multilingualism and strategic pluralism
Le Canada a la réputation d’être un pays tolérant, caractérisé par \nsa diversité, dont la dualité linguistique constitue un véritable trait national \ndistinctif de sa société pluraliste. Cet article détermine dans quelle mesure \nle bilinguisme juridique, tel qu’il existe au Canada, offre une solution \nintéressante et transposable au reste du monde qui a vu s’accroître le \nbilinguisme et le multilinguisme au cours des dernières décennies. En …
Otter's Journey through Indigenous Language and Law Lindsay Keegitah Borrows (2018)
Otter's Journey through Indigenous Language and Law Lindsay Keegitah Borrows (2018)
Litigating without speaking legalese
The increasing number of unrepresented litigants in various jurisdictions raises the question of what challenges these lay people face in their access to justice. This article seeks to examine this by conducting a small ethnographic study and survey in Hong Kong. Based on 6 hours of courtroom observation in two cases and 8 hours of pre-trial, during trial and post-trial interview data obtained from 7 sessions, we show that unrepresented litigants…
The Life and Death of a Protest Anthem at the Frontier of a New Cold War
Amidst the rise of a new Cold War between China and the US, Hong Kong has been called Ground Zero, the new Berlin, or the Global Frontier by various media outlets. During an ongoing US-China trade war, the Water Movement broke out in 2019. It was the largest and most prolonged social movement that Hong Kong has seen, and one that was met with the direst consequence – the imposition of a sweeping National Security Law that has changed the politica…
Corpus insights into the harmonization of commercial media in China: News coverage of migrant worker issues as a case study
Hurdles and horizons of linguistics for social justice
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Sedition or Mere Dissent? Linguistic Analysis of a Political Slogan
This paper reports the first case in which a linguist served as an expert witness in Hong Kong, a former British colony that has operated as a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1997. The dispute was on the meaning of the political slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times”, which was widely adopted during the 2019–2020 protests. The keywords “liberate” and “revolution” are smoking gun evidence f…
Schmidt, Richard
Richard W. Schmidt (1941–2017) was a versatile linguist whose primary research area was in the role of cognitive and affective factors, such as attention, awareness, and motivation, in adult second language acquisition (SLA) and foreign‐language learning.
Hulstijn, Jan H.
Jan H. Hulstijn (1947– ) is a Dutch scholar whose research is primarily concerned with incidental and intentional second language (L2) vocabulary learning, implicit and explicit L2 grammar learning, automatization of L2 lower‐order processing skills, and language proficiency (LP).
Skehan, Peter
Peter Skehan (1944– ) is a British linguist whose main research focus revolves around individual differences (especially language aptitude) and second language acquisition.
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