Vijay K. BHATIA

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Adjunct Professor

M.A. (Lancaster), Ph.D. (Aston)

Website

http://www.vjkbhatia.com/

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.

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Publications

Books / Monographs Authored

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.

Articles in Journals

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.

Research Projects

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