Research Interests
Critical genre analysis of academic and professional discourses in legal, business, promotional, and in new media contexts; ESP and professional communication; simplification and easification of legal and other public documents.
Selected Publications
A selection of Research Projects
- Analyzing genre-bending in corporate disclosure documents and practices – CERG
- International commercial arbitration practice: a discourse analytical study – CERG (Collaboration with 22 countries)
- Strategies and competencies in legal communication – The Law Society of Hong Kong
- Teaching English to meet the needs of business education in Hong Kong – SCOLAR Language Fund (Collaboration with most HK Universities)
- Collaborative Writing in the Creative Communication Industries: Professional and Pedagogical Perspectives- GRF
- Food Labelling in Hong Kong: Public Policy and Discursive Practice– GRF
Book
2016
Bhatia, Vijay K., (2016): Critical Genre Analysis: Investigating Interdiscursive Performance in Professional Contexts, research monograph, London, New York, Routledge.
2014
Bhatia, Vijay K, and Stephen Bremner (Eds.) (2014): Handbook of Professional Communication, London, New York, Routledge.
2012
Bhatia Vijay K., C. N. Candlin, & Maurizio Gotti, (Eds) (2012): Arbitration Practice and Discourse: Issues, Challenges and Prospects, Ashgate Publishing Group.
2004
Bhatia, Vijay K., (2004): Worlds of Written Discourse: A genre-based view, London and New York, Continuum, and Bloomsbury.
1993
Bhatia, Vijay K., (1993): Analysing Genre – Language Use in Professional Settings, London, Longman, and Routledge.
Journal Articles
2015
Bhatia, Vijay K.: Critical Genre Analysis- Theoretical Preliminaries, in the thematic issue of HERMES
2014
Bhatia, Vijay K., Linguistic and socio-pragmatic considerations in legislative drafting, in Theory and Practice of Legislation Journal, Oxford, Hart Publishing.
2012
Bhatia, Vijay K. and Stephen Bremner, (2012): English for Business Communication, a commissioned state-of-the-art paper in Language Teaching Journal, Vol. 45, 4, CUP
2012
Bhatia, Vijay K (2012): Critical Reflections on Genre Analysis, in Iberica, 24.
2011
Bhatia, Vijay K., (2011): Witness examination as interdiscursive practice, in World Englishes 30, 1.
2011
Bhatia, Vijay K. (2011) Interdiscursive colonisation of arbitration practice, in World Englishes. Vol. 30, 1.
2010
Bhatia, Vijay K, (2010): Interdiscursivity in Professional Communication, in Discourse and Communication, 4/1.
2008
Bhatia, Vijay K., (2008): Genre Analysis, ESP and Professional Practice, English for Specific Purposes, 27, 2.
2008
Bhatia, Vijay K., (2008): Creativity and accessibility in written professional discourse, in World Englishes, 27, 3.
2007
Bhatia, Vijay K., (2007): Discursive Practices in Disciplinary and Professional Contexts, Linguistic and Human Sciences, 2, 1, [5-28].
1997
Bhatia, Vijay K., (1997): Genre-Mixing in Academic Introductions, English for Specific Purposes, 16, 3.
1997
Bhatia, Vijay K., (1997): Issues in discourse and genre analysis, a special issue of World Englishes 16, 3.
1997
Bhatia, Vijay K., (1997): Power and politics of genre, in World Englishes, 16,3.
