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Theses from 2022

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Exploring the semantics and functionality of Ghanaianisms, James Nsoh ADOGPA

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American becoming : poetics, space, and race in the travel narratives of Herman Melville and Jack Kerouac, Yun SONG (宋昀)

Theses from 2021

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Redefining the object of semiotic studies, Yiqiang JIN (金毅強)

Theses from 2020

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Cosmopolitan imagination in Salman Rushdie and Ha Jin, Zhenling LI (李珍玲)

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An apology for the villain-hero : a study of Christopher Marlowe’s tragic works, Yue ZHU (朱悅)

Theses from 2019

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"Blown through the tube at 50 miles an hour" : transportation, motion and mobility in Virginia Woolf's novels, Deyan MENG (孟德燕)

Theses from 2018

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Lived experience and creative praxis : a critical appraisal of Raymond William's fiction, Mingying ZHOU

Theses from 2017

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What is “meta-” for? : a Peircean critique of the cognitive theory of metaphor, Yicun JIANG (姜奕村)

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A comparative study of war metaphors in English and Chinese business media discourse, Xian ZHONG (鐘先)

Theses from 2016

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Shakespeare on the city and its outcasts : a study on tragedy and political philosophy, Yu LIU

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English drama For critical pedagogy : adapting Caryl Churchill’S dramas as a methodological tool for community-engaged theatre workshopping in post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong, Hsiao Min YU

Theses from 2015

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The liberation of the heroine in Red Riding Hood : a study on feminist and postfeminist discourses, Hiu Yan CHENG

Theses from 2013

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Histrionic translation : a methodology for promoting the translator's inter-subjectivity as co-producer, Fei Yue TSANG

Theses from 2012

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A lacanian perspective on literature, translation and the reader's (inter-)subjectivity : read my text and tell me who you are, On Yee, Franziska CHENG

Theses from 2010

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A comparison between the verbal interruptions by speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and speakers of English as a native language (ENL), Yue Yuan LI

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Phonological features of Hong Kong English : patterns of variation and effects on local acceptability, Andrew John SEWELL

Theses from 2007

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A stylistic approach to the God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy, Wing Yi, Monica CHAN

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The discourse of disease : the representation of SARS - the China daily and the South China Morning Post, Jie DUAN

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A corpus-based synchronic comparison and diachronic interpretation of lexicalized emotion metaphors in English and Chinese, Shixiong, George WU

Theses from 2006

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Samuel Beckett's late aesthetics of subjectivation, Jianxi LIE