Dr Jane Lockwood will introduce her new book “Developing Global Business Communication in Asia: A Business Simulated Case Study Approach” in June 2021 in an book launch online event organised by the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English and the Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. More information will be available online… Continue reading Teaching Business Communication in Asia: a new book by Dr Jane Lockwood
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“Talking Across the World” Symposium -Professional Communication in the Digital Age
21 May 2021 (UTC+8) on Zoom supported by Hong Kong Customer Contact Association [ Please come back end of April, 2021 for the registration information ] Talking Across the World (TAW) is a forum for academia and industry to exchange ideas, share experience and research around the key issues in professional communication. The theme for the… Continue reading “Talking Across the World” Symposium -Professional Communication in the Digital Age
New resource for English teaching in Hong Kong primary schools
Professor Kathleen Ahrens, Director of RCPCE, launched a new tool recently to assist teachers in Hong Kong to teach the English language to Primary One to Primary Six students. This resource is designed to teach English with ten selected children’s picture books that incorporate the context of Hong Kong daily life. This resource is part… Continue reading New resource for English teaching in Hong Kong primary schools
Introducing MSDIP: A Method for coding source domains in metaphor analysis
Organised by Department of English and Research Centre for Professional Communication in English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Abstract Conceptual metaphor analysis is an important part of many metaphor studies (e.g., Ahrens & Jiang, 2020; Dodge, Jisup, & Sitckles, 2015; Steen, 1999, 2011), because conceptual metaphors are considered to provide a window onto human thinking (Lakoff… Continue reading Introducing MSDIP: A Method for coding source domains in metaphor analysis