Wang Wanwen Amber
PhD student (FT)
- HHB306
- +852 2766 5601
- amber-wanwen.wang@connect.polyu.hk
Research GateBiography
Chief Supervisor: Prof. Eric Friginal
Co-supervisor: Prof. Kathleen Ahrens
Research Interests
Publications
- Wang, A. W., & Friginal, E. (2025). The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals. English for Specific Purposes, 79, 124-136.
- Wang, A. W., & Friginal, E. (2025). From tradition to innovation? A diachronic corpus analysis of simplified technical English in aviation. Journal of English and applied linguistics, 4(2), 1-14.
- Wang, A. W. (2025) Book Review: Lexical Multidimensional Analysis: Identifying Discourses and Ideologies. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 5(3), 100135.
- McKeown, J., Wang, A. W., & Ye, M. (2025). A corpus based, class-sensitive contrastive analysis of attitudinal responses to the YouTube series Britain’s Forgotten Men. Corpora, 20(2), 181-204.
- Wang, A. W., & Friginal, E (2025, July). From Corpus to Classroom: Developing Teaching Materials Based on Aviation Maintenance Documentation Analysis. Paper presented at the 23rd AsiaTEFL International Conference 2025 (AsiaTEFL), The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.
- Wang, A. W., & Friginal, E (2025, July). Navigating the Complexities of Aviation Maintenance Documentation: A Corpus-Based Diachronic Analysis of Simplified Technical English. Paper presented at the Corpus Linguistics 2025 (CL2025), Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham, Birminghan, UK.
- Wang, A. W. (2025, May). English for Aviation Maintenance Purposes: A Corpus-Based Study for L2 Technical Writers. Paper presented at the Talking Across the World Symposium: Global Communication of Chinese Culture in the Digital Age, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR.
- Wang, W. (2024, December). Impact of written documentation on aviation safety: Time series analysis of maintenance-related incident reports, 2009–2024. Paper presented at the 14th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
- Wang, W., & Friginal, E. (2024, November). Analyzing 15 years of documentation issues in aviation maintenance. Paper presented at the 11th GEIA Seminar, Brazilian Department of Airspace Control and ICEA Airspace Control Institute, Brazil.
- Wang, W. (2024, May). Language issues in aviation maintenance: A systematic review of the evidence. Paper presented at the International Civil Aviation English Association Conference (Research and Developments in Aviation Communications), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
- Wang, W., Ahrens, K., & Jiang, M. (2023, May). Love relationships are catching fish: A corpus-based study on love relationship metaphors in Chinese social forums. Paper presented at the 16th Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference, Madrid, Spain.
- Wang, W., & Ahrens, K. (2023, May). “A ballet of white birds”: Metaphorical source domains of aircraft in airline Instagram posts. Paper presented at the 7th Talking Across the World & Business and Professional Communication in a Changing World, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
- Wang, W., & Ye, M. (2022, June). Public comments on the Taliban: Topics and attitudes in the Weibo hashtags. Paper presented at the 17th Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP17), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
- Wang, W. (2021, December). Media presentations of Afghan women under the Taliban regime in New York Times: A corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis. Paper presented at the 8th Appliable Linguistics and Appraisal Studies, Martin Centre for Applied Linguistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
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- Research Assistant (FT), Department of English and Communication, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2021-2023)
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Instructor/Project Assistant (PT), FH GEF Program, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2022-2023. Courses taught:
- Introduction to Phonology and Phonetics
- Multilingual Dictionaries
- Machine Translation
- Language and Social Media
- Multimodalities of Language
Others
- Student organizer, The 2023 Postgraduate Research Symposium on Linguistics and Language Data Analytics (PRSLA), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, (December 5, 2023).
