Language and Professional Communication | Department of English and Communication

Special Announcement

23 Apr 2025

The Office of the Department of English and Communication has moved to 9/F, PolyU Hung Hom Bay Campus, 8 Hung Lok Road, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong w.e.f. 14 April 2025.

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This research profile focuses on all areas relating to Language and Professional Communication, including lexico-grammatical, discourse, genre and pragmatic studies in professional contexts, organizational communication, intercultural and professional communicative competencies, cultural identities in the multilingual and multicultural workplaces, and English for specific purposes.

(1) Health Communication

Prof. Louise Cummings*

(Speech and Language Therapy)

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Prof. Stefano Occhipinti*

(Stigma, Health beliefs, Cancer, Culture and Health)

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Dr Jeffry Oktavianus*

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(2) Political Communication

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Prof. Stefano Occhipinti*

(Political ideology and naturalness beliefs)

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Dr Anne Schluter*

(Populist discourse)

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Dr Lydia Catedral*

Grassroots migrants' political discourses

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(3) Professional Communication

Prof. Eric Friginal*

(Aviation English, Workplace Communication and Call Centres)

Prof. Hans Ladegaard*

(Leadership & Gender, Intercultural Communication in the workplace)

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Prof. Kathleen Ahrens*

(Metaphor and Gender, Corpus Linguistics)

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Dr Jenifer Ho*

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(4) Scholarly Communication

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Prof. Guangwei Hu*

(Academic Discourse, Research Ethics, Scholarly Publishing)

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*All faculty members with a star next to their name are potential Principal Supervisors for the 2025-26 intake of RPg students.

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