http://hdl.handle.net/10397/59 Search the Channel search http://repository.lib.polyu.edu.hk/jspui/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/10397/5166 Title: "Good to use for virtual consultation time": second life activities for and beyond the technical and web-based English writing classroom<br/><br/>Authors: Gui, Dean; Li, Lan; Wong, Dora Ling Fung; Au Yeung, Gigi<br/><br/>Abstract: This empirical study evaluates comments provided by first year undergraduate students from an English for Technical and Web-Based Writing (ETWW) course at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU) from the second semester of the 2009/2010 academic year. Students were asked to describe their experiences with an in-class task consisting of creating a movie poster, and then responding to and evaluating each other's work in a showcase area designed within the HK PolyU Second Life (SL) virtual campus. Sources of student comments considered included HK PolyU iFeedback forms and video-recorded focus group sessions. The information was then filtered for facilitation of other possibilities in language learning. The authors examine how these activities could be applied in a collaborative learning environment and other collaborative contexts. The goal of this study is to show the creative abilities of students from a technical writing course to think beyond the technical writing classroom. Creating activities of this nature can not only substantiate claims of practical applicability from a virtual world into the physical world, but also acknowledges the benefits of three-dimensional platforms over two-dimensional platforms. While some of the ideas mentioned (like creating and featuring films in three-dimensional virtual environments) are not novel, they are relevant in showing the quick adaptability of first year university students – many of whom have little to no knowledge of SL, and who tend to view virtual worlds simply as another 'game' – in creative thinking and learning. Additionally, the authors consider the relationships between extension projects and the in-class poster task, and the implications of these projects for a potential virtual Department of English.<br/><br/>Description: DOI: 10.1386/mvcr.2.1.57_1 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10397/4570 Title: Non-referential uses of nominalization constructions: Asian perspectives<br/><br/>Authors: Yap, Foong Ha; Grunow-Hårsta, Karen<br/><br/>Abstract: This study reviews extended uses of nominalization constructions in a wide range of Asian languages. It combines typological and diachronic perspectives, and traces how nominalization constructions over time develop from referential to non-referential uses. The latter include modifying functions (e.g. relativization and adverbialization); in some cases, nominalization constructions further develop into finite clauses, and sometimes are reanalyzed as stand-alone constructions with mirative, evidential, epistemic, attitudinal, or other speaker mood/stance interpretations. These developments form part of a general tendency for versatile constructions to extend from proposition-based uses to grammatical and pragmatic uses (a laTraugott 1982, 1989, 1995, inter alia). This review, in particular, focuses on semantic extensions within and beyond the nominal domain, with the latter extensions involving reanalyses in functions whereby nominalization constructions drift from referent identification to event predication and the expression of speaker’s stance.<br/><br/>Description: DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00250.x Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10397/4453 Title: Clausal integration and the emergence of mitigative and adhortative sentence-final particles in Chinese = 小句整合與句末緩和助詞及勸告助詞的產生<br/><br/>Authors: Yap, Foong Ha; Wang, Jiao; Lam, Charles Tsz-kwan<br/><br/>Abstract: This paper identifies a number of different pathways that give rise to sentence final particles in Chinese. In particular, it focuses on a strategy referred to as 'clausal integration'. Diachronic evidence is given for the emergence of sentence final particles er yi yi and ye yi yi in Old Chinese. Additional examples are further provided from Early Modern Chinese and contemporary Chinese to show that the process of clausal integration is a highly robust, recursive process that gives rise to numerous pragmatic markers at the right periphery within the Chinese language, with possible implications for other languages as well.; 本文提出了漢語中產生句末助詞的不同途徑，並集中討論「小句整合」的策略。本文採用了古漢語中「而已矣」及「也已矣」的歷時證據。本文進一步提供早期現代漢語和當代漢語的例子，以證明小句整合的過程非常強大並具有遞歸性。此過程產生了中文裡許多句子右端的語用標記，對其他語言亦有一定意義。 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10397/2534 Title: Following langscape : with corpus evidence from Hong Kong<br/><br/>Authors: Bilbow, Grahame T.; Li, Lan<br/><br/>Abstract: Grahame T. Bilbow & Li Lan respond to Pam Peters's Langscape Survey (ET, 1995–2001) with commentary and comparisons based ontheir Business Corpus at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.<br/><br/>Description: DOI: 10.1017/S0266078401004072 Mon, 01 Oct 2001 00:00:00 GMT