Victor Ho
Biographic Data
| ID | 975678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Ho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Ho |
| SIGNATURE | HO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6501-3473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rhetorical structure of literature review chapters in Nepalese PhD dissertations
‘Don't become so much high sounding’
Strategic use of nouns and pronouns in public discourse
This paper discusses how the first person pronouns ‘I ’ and ‘We’ and the two proper nouns ‘the Education Bureau [EDB]’ and ‘the Government’ were used strategically by government officials in an attempt to delineate the level of involvement and commitment of the officials themselves, the EDB and the Hong Kong Government in the course of implementing and fine-tuning the medium-of-instruction policy in Hong Kong’s secondary schools. The data compris…
“Together, we fight the virus”
This exploratory qualitative study was conducted in the summer of 2020 when Hong Kong people probably needed a substantial boost in their confidence in themselves, the government, and the future. Through the lens of metadiscourse, we investigated the way the city’s Chinese newspapers attempted the confidence boost in editorials and opinion columns – the two newspaper genres that are probably the most persuasive because of the inclusion and expres…
Denial in managerial responses
Do hotels enhance and challenge rapport with customers with the same degree of commitment
Marketization attempts by universities in Hong Kong
Hotel management’s attempts at repairing customers’ trust
The present study explores the discursive practice of the hospitality industry in addressing competence-based, benevolence-based, and integrity-based accusations of trust violation made by dissatisfied customers on TripAdvisor. Authentic negative online reviews written by dissatisfied customers and the corresponding responses by hotel management downloaded directly from TripAdvisor are analyzed qualitatively with Nvivo10. Results show that hotel …
Larssyn Staley, Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation
202304 bcww
Exploring the effectiveness of hotel management's responses to negative online comments
Using metadiscourse in making persuasive attempts through workplace request emails
Guarding the gate politically and politely
Accreditation is a quality assurance mechanism which evaluates either the capability of an institution to offer an academic program or the quality of an academic program before its launch. Accredited institutions and programs are allowed to enroll students, both fee-paying and non-fee-paying. The outcome of an accreditation exercise will therefore have significant implications for an institution’s reputation and finance. Institutions are normally…
Giving offense and making amends
Evaluative prosodies in academic quality audit reports
This paper analyzes the discourse of academic quality audit reports by drawing upon Appraisal Theory (Martin & White 2005). It focuses on the evaluative prosodies in the discourse leading up to the three main components of the reports, namely commendations, affirmations, and recommendations. These reports are prepared by the audit panels formed by the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong upon the completion of…
Discourse of persuasion
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has proposed a number of reform initiatives in different policy areas since its establishment in 1997. This paper explores and discusses the HKSAR government’s discursive attempt to persuade the people of Hong Kong to accept two education policy reforms it has proposed. Adopting a corpus-based approach and drawing upon the construct of metadiscourse as the method of inquiry in the stu…
Promoting a city's core values using evaluative language
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government launched the Brand Hong Kong campaign in 2001 to promote Hong Kong as an Asia's world city. Among the various initiatives of the campaign is the promotion of the core values of the city through both the text and images on the Brand Hong Kong website. The present study analyzes specifically the textual components of the website by drawing upon appraisal theory as the analytical framework. The …
Evaluating while justifying intercultural requests
Research into the speech-act request performed by people of different cultures operationalized at levels including nation, community of practice, and L2 speakers has identified and discussed sets of culture-related request-making behaviors. The findings of this research suggest that differences exist among cultures in request-making behaviors concerning the use and choice of request directness and strategies, rhetorical approaches, and internal a…
Managing rapport through evaluation in grounder - A qualitative study
Rapport — how the weight it carries affects the way it is managed
This paper discusses the management of rapport by a group of English-language teachers through their request e-mail discourse. The group was regarded as a community of practice consisting of two types of members—core and peripheral. The paper explores and compares the ways the core and peripheral members managed rapport while making requests through e-mails. It is argued that to the two types of members, rapport weighed differently and was thus m…
A discourse-based study of three communities of practice
This article discusses and compares the way the members of three communities of practice maintained a harmonious relationship with one another by managing rapport and performing relational work while threatening other members’ face in making requests through emails. The three communities of practice differed from one another in terms of the aim and nature of their joint enterprise, cultural composition and size. The ways rapport was managed were …
What functions do intertextuality and interdiscursivity serve in request e-mail discourse
Constructing identities through request e-mail discourse
Giving offense and making amends
Constructing identities through request e-mail discourse
Using metadiscourse in making persuasive attempts through workplace request emails
Managing rapport through evaluation in grounder - A qualitative study
What functions do intertextuality and interdiscursivity serve in request e-mail discourse
Denial in managerial responses
Exploring the effectiveness of hotel management's responses to negative online comments
A discourse-based study of three communities of practice
This article discusses and compares the way the members of three communities of practice maintained a harmonious relationship with one another by managing rapport and performing relational work while threatening other members’ face in making requests through emails. The three communities of practice differed from one another in terms of the aim and nature of their joint enterprise, cultural composition and size. The ways rapport was managed were …
Do hotels enhance and challenge rapport with customers with the same degree of commitment
Marketization attempts by universities in Hong Kong
Guarding the gate politically and politely
Accreditation is a quality assurance mechanism which evaluates either the capability of an institution to offer an academic program or the quality of an academic program before its launch. Accredited institutions and programs are allowed to enroll students, both fee-paying and non-fee-paying. The outcome of an accreditation exercise will therefore have significant implications for an institution’s reputation and finance. Institutions are normally…
Evaluating while justifying intercultural requests
Research into the speech-act request performed by people of different cultures operationalized at levels including nation, community of practice, and L2 speakers has identified and discussed sets of culture-related request-making behaviors. The findings of this research suggest that differences exist among cultures in request-making behaviors concerning the use and choice of request directness and strategies, rhetorical approaches, and internal a…
Constructing identities through request e-mail discourse
Rapport — how the weight it carries affects the way it is managed
This paper discusses the management of rapport by a group of English-language teachers through their request e-mail discourse. The group was regarded as a community of practice consisting of two types of members—core and peripheral. The paper explores and compares the ways the core and peripheral members managed rapport while making requests through e-mails. It is argued that to the two types of members, rapport weighed differently and was thus m…
A discourse-based study of three communities of practice
This article discusses and compares the way the members of three communities of practice maintained a harmonious relationship with one another by managing rapport and performing relational work while threatening other members’ face in making requests through emails. The three communities of practice differed from one another in terms of the aim and nature of their joint enterprise, cultural composition and size. The ways rapport was managed were …
What functions do intertextuality and interdiscursivity serve in request e-mail discourse
Evaluating while justifying intercultural requests
Research into the speech-act request performed by people of different cultures operationalized at levels including nation, community of practice, and L2 speakers has identified and discussed sets of culture-related request-making behaviors. The findings of this research suggest that differences exist among cultures in request-making behaviors concerning the use and choice of request directness and strategies, rhetorical approaches, and internal a…
Managing rapport through evaluation in grounder - A qualitative study
Promoting a city's core values using evaluative language
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government launched the Brand Hong Kong campaign in 2001 to promote Hong Kong as an Asia's world city. Among the various initiatives of the campaign is the promotion of the core values of the city through both the text and images on the Brand Hong Kong website. The present study analyzes specifically the textual components of the website by drawing upon appraisal theory as the analytical framework. The …
Evaluative prosodies in academic quality audit reports
This paper analyzes the discourse of academic quality audit reports by drawing upon Appraisal Theory (Martin & White 2005). It focuses on the evaluative prosodies in the discourse leading up to the three main components of the reports, namely commendations, affirmations, and recommendations. These reports are prepared by the audit panels formed by the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong upon the completion of…
Discourse of persuasion
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has proposed a number of reform initiatives in different policy areas since its establishment in 1997. This paper explores and discusses the HKSAR government’s discursive attempt to persuade the people of Hong Kong to accept two education policy reforms it has proposed. Adopting a corpus-based approach and drawing upon the construct of metadiscourse as the method of inquiry in the stu…
Guarding the gate politically and politely
Accreditation is a quality assurance mechanism which evaluates either the capability of an institution to offer an academic program or the quality of an academic program before its launch. Accredited institutions and programs are allowed to enroll students, both fee-paying and non-fee-paying. The outcome of an accreditation exercise will therefore have significant implications for an institution’s reputation and finance. Institutions are normally…
Giving offense and making amends
Exploring the effectiveness of hotel management's responses to negative online comments
Using metadiscourse in making persuasive attempts through workplace request emails
Hotel management’s attempts at repairing customers’ trust
The present study explores the discursive practice of the hospitality industry in addressing competence-based, benevolence-based, and integrity-based accusations of trust violation made by dissatisfied customers on TripAdvisor. Authentic negative online reviews written by dissatisfied customers and the corresponding responses by hotel management downloaded directly from TripAdvisor are analyzed qualitatively with Nvivo10. Results show that hotel …
Larssyn Staley, Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation
202304 bcww
Do hotels enhance and challenge rapport with customers with the same degree of commitment
Marketization attempts by universities in Hong Kong
“Together, we fight the virus”
This exploratory qualitative study was conducted in the summer of 2020 when Hong Kong people probably needed a substantial boost in their confidence in themselves, the government, and the future. Through the lens of metadiscourse, we investigated the way the city’s Chinese newspapers attempted the confidence boost in editorials and opinion columns – the two newspaper genres that are probably the most persuasive because of the inclusion and expres…
Denial in managerial responses
‘Don't become so much high sounding’
Strategic use of nouns and pronouns in public discourse
This paper discusses how the first person pronouns ‘I ’ and ‘We’ and the two proper nouns ‘the Education Bureau [EDB]’ and ‘the Government’ were used strategically by government officials in an attempt to delineate the level of involvement and commitment of the officials themselves, the EDB and the Hong Kong Government in the course of implementing and fine-tuning the medium-of-instruction policy in Hong Kong’s secondary schools. The data compris…
Rhetorical structure of literature review chapters in Nepalese PhD dissertations
Linguistics (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Business (7 works)