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Carmen LEE

Associate Professor
B.A., M.Phil.(HKU); Ph.D. (Lancaster)

Tel 3943 7994
Email carmenlee@cuhk.edu.hk
Office Fung King Hey 317
Link Google Scholar
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Administrative Post:
Head, Graduate Division of English
Faculty Representative, Executive Committee of Graduate Council

Research Interests
Sociolinguistics, language on the internet, multilingualism, literacy studies, qualitative research methods
 
Selected Publications (see also Google Scholar Site)
Books
2022
(with R. Page, D. Barton, J. Unger, M. Zappavigna). Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide. Abingdon: Routledge.
2017
Multilingualism Online. London: Routledge.
2015
(Co-edited with M. O’Sullivan and D. Huddart.). The Future of English in Asia. London: Routledge.
2015
(With D. Barton). Linguagem online : textos e práticas digitais. Sao Paulo: Parabola Editorial.
2013
(With D. Barton). Language Online: Investigating digital texts and practices. London: Routledge.
Journal Articles
2022
(with T. Virtanen) Face-work in Online Discourse: Practices and Multiple Conceptualizations. Journal of Pragmatics, 184.
2022
(with D. Chau). ‘I’m not a tech person’: Negotiation of academic personas in polymedia environments. Pragmatics and Society, 12(5), 805-827.
2021
(with D. Chau). “See you soon! ADD OIL AR!”: Code-switching for face-work in edu-social Facebook groups. Journal of Pragmatics, 184, 18-28.
2021
(with Tagg, C., Vásquez, C., Eriksson, G., Anderson, C., & Fitzgerald, R.). Discourse, context & media: Relevance in a changing world. Discourse, Context & Media, 39.
2020
2019
Googlish as a resource for networked multilingualism. World Englishes.39 (1): 79-93.
2018
Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Discourse of Social Tagging’. Discourse, Context and Media. 22: 1-3. 185-208.
2017
(With D. Chau). Language as pride, love, and hate: Archiving emotions through multilingual Instagram hashtags. Discourse, Context & Media.
2017
(With D. Chau). Discursive construction of identities in a social network-educational space: Insights from an undergraduate Facebook group for a linguistics course. Discourse, Context & Media, 18, 31-39.
2012
(With D. Barton). Redefining Vernacular Literacies in the age of Web 2.0. Applied Linguistics 33 (3): 282-298.
2011
(With D. Barton). Constructing Glocal Identities through Multilingual Writing Practices on Flickr.com, International Multilingual Research Journal 5: 39-59.
2007
Affordances and text-making practices in online instant messaging. Written Communication. 24 (3): 223-249.
2007
Text-making practices beyond the classroom context: Private instant messaging in Hong Kong. Computers and Composition: An International Journal. Special Issue on Global Perspectives of Computers and Composition. 24 (3): 285-301.
Book Chapters
2023
COVID-19 Parody fake voice messages on WhatsApp. In: Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation, edited by Stefania Maci, Massimiliano Demata, Mark McGlashan and Philip Seargeant, Routledge. (with Dennis Chau).
2022
COVID-19 conspiracy theories as affective discourse. In: Conspiracy Theory Discourses, edited by Demata, M. et al., John Benjamins, pp. 215-238.
2022
Researching multilingual digital discourse. In: Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis, edited by C. Vasquez. London: Bloomsbury
2017
(With D. Barton). Methodologies for researching multilingual online texts and practices. In: Researching multilingualism: Critical and ethnographic perspectives, edited by M. Martin Jones and D. Martin. Abingdon: Routeldge.
2015
Digital Discourse@Public Space: Flows of Language Online and Offline. In Jones, R., Chik, A. and Hafner, C. (Eds.) Discourse and Digital Practices: Doing discourse analysis in the digital age. London: Routledge.
2014
Language choice and self-presentation in social media: the case of university students in Hong Kong, in Seargeant, P. and Tagg, C. (eds) The Language of Social Media: Community and Identity on the Internet. Palgrave Macmillan, 91-111.
2013
Text-making practices in online writing spaces: from research to practice, in Goodfellow, R. and Lea, M. (Eds.), Literacy in the Digital University, London: Routledge, 149-161.
2013
'My English is so poor…so I take photos'. Meta-linguistic discourse of English online. Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media. Georgetown University Press.
2012
Researching the texts and practices in an online photo-sharing site. To appear in M. Sebba et al. (Eds). Language mixing and code-switching in writing: Approaches to mixed-language written discourse. London: Routledge, p. 128-145.
2011
Texts and Practices of Micro-blogging: Status Updates on Facebook. In C. Thurlow and K. Mroczek. (Eds). Digital Discourse: Language in New Media. Oxford University Press, 110-128.
2011
(With D. Barton). Literacy studies. In R. Wodak, B. Johnstone, and P. Kerswill. (Eds.). The Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics. London: Sage Publications. 598-611.
2009
(With D. Barton). English and glocal identities on Web 2.0: The case of Flickr.com. In K. K. Tam (Ed.). Englishization in Asia. Hong Kong: Open University of Hong Kong Press, p.1-20.
2007
Linguistic features of email and ICQ instant messaging in Hong Kong. In B. Danet and S. C. Herring. (Eds.). The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication Online. New York: Oxford University Press. 185-208.
 
Invited Talks & Keynote Speeches
2022
Digital discourse analysis in public policy research: The case of doxxing discourse in Hong Kong, Invited lecture at the Digital Language Variation in Context (DiLCo) lecture series, organized by the University of Hamburg, Germany.
2022
Online Aggression as a Discourse Practice, Invited research seminar, organized by the Department of English Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland (2022-11).
2021
“Do you speak English?”: Recontextualizing metalinguistic discourse and online hate speech, Keynote speaker at the17th International Pragmatics Conference organized by International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Switzerland (2021-06 to 2021-07)
2021
Conspiracy Theories as Mediatized Affective Discourse, Invited research seminar, organized by University of Reading, UK (2021-05)
2021
Online Aggression: A Discourse-analytic Approach in Research Seminar, Invited research seminar, organized by the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics, Hong Kong (2021-05)
2019
Invited Discussant, for the Panel on Translanguaging and Polymedia at IPrA 2019 conference organized by Jannis Androutsopoulos (2019-06)
2019
Art as Curated Texts: Authenticating the #instartist identity in social media, Plenary speaker at the HKU Colloquium on Sociolinguistics and the Humanities, organized by School of English, HKU (2019-03)
2018
From multilingualism to networked multilingualism: The case of ‘Google Translate Sings. Invited speaker at the Associate of Arts in English for Professional Communication (AAEPC) Student Conference, UOW College Hong Kong/Community College of City University, 2018.
2016
Edu-social Discourses in Facebook Groups for Undergraduate Students, Invited Seminar, organized by Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2016-04)
2015
Should we worry about our language in the digital age?, Invited speaker at TEDxHKUST, organized by TEDxHKUST, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (2015-10)
2015
Hashtagging as a literacy practice: Textual Representations of the #HongKong #UmbrellaMovement on Instagram in Lancaster Literacy Research Seminar Series organized by Literacy Research Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom (2015-11)
 
Editorial Posts
  • Associate Editor, Discourse, Context & Media (Elsevier, 2019-01 to Present)
  • Co-editor of the book series ‘Language and Digital Media’ (Routledge, with Camilla Vasquez and David Barton, (2016-07 to Present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Critical Discourse Studies (Taylor & Francis, 2014-01 to Present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Language and Discrimination (Equinox, 2022 to Present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Sociolinguistics (Wiley, 2017 – 2021)
 
Research Grants and Awards
2024-2026
Online Aggression in Hong Kong: A Discourse-Centred Online Ethnography (HKD521,000, RGC General Research Fund)
2022-2023
(Co-PI) The Education, Social, and Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on University Graduates Transitioning to the Workforce in Hong Kong, (HKD 1,510,190, Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), PI: Olga Zayts, HKU) https://www.hkuriich.org/crfproject
2020-2021
(Co-PI) Language enhancement at EdUHK and beyond: Fostering a Community of Practice on technology-enhanced language learning and teaching (HKD 1,000,000, Education University of Hong Kong - Community of Practice project fund, Hong Kong)
2021-2022
Doxxing in Hong Kong: A Discourse-Analytic Perspective. (HKD: 350,000, Public Policy Research Funding Scheme, co-I: D. Chau).
2019-2020
Knowledge Construction and Writing Online: Exploring Digital Academic Discourse and Practices in Hong Kong (funded by CUHK Direct Grant for Research, Co-Is: Dennis Chau, Open University of Hong Kong, and D. Barton, Lancaster University)
2019
The Language of Cyberbullying in Hong Kong: A Pilot Study (Supported by the CUHK Student Campus Work Scheme 2018/19)
2012
The Interaction between Online and Offline Linguistic Practices (funded by CUHK Direct Grant for Research, Co-I: D. Barton, Lancaster University)
2010-2011
Language and Writing Activities on Web 2.0: The Case of Young People in Hong Kong (HKD 427,286, RGC General Research Fund)
2010
Multimodal Text-making and Learning in Online Social Spaces: The Case of Flickr.com. (HKD 98,093, funded by CUHK Direct Grant for Research, Co-I: D. Barton, Lancaster University)
2008
Multilingualism in Web 2.0 Spaces: A Pilot Study (HKD 48,920, funded by the OUHK Research and Development Fund, as Principal Investigator)