Prof. Lydia Catedral

Assistant Professor

HHB932
+852 2766 4364
lydia.catedral@polyu.edu.hk

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Research Overview

Lydia Catedral is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Communication at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her sociolinguistic research focuses on the relationship between language and space-time, particularly in the context of transnational migration. Her first co-authored book is Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination and Behavior. Her current research on migrant domestic workers emerges from her solidarity work with grassroots organizations led by migrant workers in and beyond Hong Kong.

Academic and Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2024-present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong (2018-2024)

Teaching Areas

Social approaches to language
Analyzing discourse and semiosis

Research Interests

Research Output

Karimzad, K. & Catedral, L. (2021). Chronotopes and migration: A sociocultural approach to language, identity, time and space. Abingdon: Routledge.

Catedral, L. & Djuraeva, M. (October 2022). Whose voice matters: Chronotopic positionings and the dialogic inclusion of marginalized stakeholders in critical applied linguistics. Applied Linguistics, 44(3), 420-441. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amac052
Catedral, L. (November 2022). (Re)chronotopizing the pandemic: Migrant domestic workers’ calls for social change. Language, Culture and Society, 4(2), 136-161. https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.22001.cat
Karimzad, F. & Catedral, L. (2022). Chronotopic resolution, embodied subjectivity, and collective learning: A sociolinguistic theory of survival. Language, Culture and Society, 4(2), 189-217. https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.22005.kar
Yip, V. & Catedral, L. (July 2021). Perceiving (non)standardness and the indexicality of new immigrant Cantonese in Hong Kong. Language and Communication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.04.004
Catedral, L. (February 2021). The (im)possibility of sociolinguistic hybridity: Power and scaling in post-soviet, transnational life. Journal of Sociolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12461
Djuraeva, M. & Catedral, L. (January 2020). Habitus and imagined ideals: Attending to (un)consciousness in discourses of (non)nativeness. International Multilingual Research Journal, 14(3), 270-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2020.1714159
Karimzad, F. & Catedral, L. (December 2018). Mobile (dis)connection: New technology and rechronotopized images of the homeland. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 28(3), 293-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12198
Catedral, L. & Djuraeva, M. (February 2018). Language ideologies and (im)moral images of personhood in multilingual family language planning. Language Policy, 17(4), 501-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-018-9455-9
Karimzad & Catedral, L. (February 2018) “No we don’t mix languages”: Ideological power and the chronotopic organization of ethnolinguistic identities. Language in Society, 47(1), 89-113. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404517000781
Catedral, L. (January 2018). Discursive scaling: Moral stability and neoliberal dominance in the narratives of transnational migrant women. Discourse and Society, 29(1), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517726111

Others

Research Grants Council General Research Fund, Expanding discourse analytic applications through participation in grassroots advocacy (approved on July 1, 2024 until 31 December 2027), Principle Investigator, HKD753,758, Ongoing.
Research Grants Council General Research Fund, Caring transnationally: A spatiotemporal model of moral discourse and action, (Approved on July 1, 2022 until November 30, 2025), Principal Investigator, HKD335,840, Ongoing
Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme, “Public” or “Private” Labor? A Discourse Analytic Comparison of Regulations on Women’s Transnational Domestic Work, (Approved on July 1, 2020 until December 31 2023), Principal Investigator, HKD313,398, Completed.

Esteem Measures

Editorial Board Member of Journal of Linguistic Anthropology and Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication

Certificate for support and solidarity to Overseas Filipino Workers (UNIFIL-Migrante-HK, United Filipinos in Hong Kong, 2023)
Finalist for First Book Award (American Association for Applied Linguistics, 2023)