Carmen LEE

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Associate Professor

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

Administrative Post

Head, Graduate Division of English
Faculty Representative, Executive Committee of Graduate Council

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Office

Fung King Hey 317

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Email

carmenlee@cuhk.edu.hk

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Tel

3943 7994

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Research Interests

Sociolinguistics, language on the internet, multilingualism, online verbal aggression, literacy studies, qualitative research methods

Publications
Teaching
Service
Grants and Awards

Books / Monographs Authored

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	(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.

Edited Volumes

2015	(Co-edited with M. O’Sullivan and D. Huddart.). The Future of English in Asia. London: Routledge.

Chapters in Books

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.

Articles in Journals

2024	(with NCH Li and R. Jones) Ways of seeing and discourse strategies of naming the novel coronavirus in the US and Hong Kong. Applied Linguistics Review.
2023	‘English is our 2nd language, konglish is our mother tongue’: Recolonizing English Through Translingual Activism in a Social Movement. Applied Linguistics, 44(5), 900-915.
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	Doxxing as discursive action in a social movement. Critical Discourse Studies.
2019	Googlish as a resource for networked multilingualism. World Englishes.39 (1): 79-93.
2019	(with Xiao, R.) English in the linguistic landscape of the Palace Museum: a field-based sociolinguistic approach, Social Semiotics.
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.

Others

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)

Grants

Internal
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	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)
External
2024-2026	Online Aggression in Hong Kong: A Discourse-Centred Online Ethnography (HKD521,000, RGC General Research Fund)
2024-2026	(Co-PI) University graduates' transitions to post-covid-19 workplaces: The impacts of the pandemic and adjusting to 'new normal' work orders" (C7075-23WF) (HKD 3,913,430, Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), PI: Olga Zayts, HKU)
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).
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)
2008	Multilingualism in Web 2.0 Spaces: A Pilot Study (HKD 48,920, funded by the OUHK Research and Development Fund, as Principal Investigator)

ENGE1500	Introduction to English Linguistics
ENGE 2540	Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence in Legal Processes
ENGE 2630	Language and Society
ENGE 3670	Language, Meaning, and Text
ENGE 3970	Language and the Internet
ENGE 5420	Sociolinguistics

2019-01 to Present	Co Editor-in-Chief, Discourse, Context & Media (Elsevier)
2016-07 to Present	Co-editor of the book series ‘Language and Digital Media’ (Routledge, with Camilla Vasquez and David Barton
2014-01 to Present	Editorial Board Member, Critical Discourse Studies (Taylor & Francis)
2022 to Present	Editorial Board Member, Journal of Language and Discrimination (Equinox)
2017-2021	Editorial Board Member, Journal of Sociolinguistics (Wiley)