Carmen LEE
Interim Associate Dean of Arts (Education); Professor
- B.A., M.Phil.(HKU); Ph.D. (Lancaster)
- Interim Associate Dean of Arts (Education)
Telephone
3943 7994
Email
carmenlee@cuhk.edu.hk
Office
Fung King Hey 317
Researcher Profile
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Research Interests
Sociolinguistics, language on the internet, multilingualism, online verbal aggression, literacy studies, qualitative research methods
Publications
Books / Monographs Authored
| 2026 | Doxxing Discourse. Cambridge University Press. |
| 2026 | (With D. Barton). (2nd Edition) Language Online: Investigating Digital Texts and Practices. Abington: Routledge. |
| 2022 | (with R. Page, D. Barton, J. Unger, M. Zappavigna). Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide. Abingdon: Routledge. |
| 2017 | Multilingualism Online. London: Routledge. |
| 2015 | (With D. Barton). Linguagem online : textos e práticas digitais. Sao Paulo: Parabola Editorial. |
| 2013 | (With D. Barton). (1st Edition) Language Online: Investigating digital texts and practices. London: Routledge. |
Edited Volumes
| 2015 | (Co-edited with M. O’Sullivan and D. Huddart.). The Future of English in Asia. London: Routledge. |
Chapters in Books
| 2023 | COVID-19 Parody fake voice messages on WhatsApp. In: Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation, edited by Stefania Maci, Massimiliano Demata, Mark McGlashan and Philip Seargeant, Routledge. (with Dennis Chau). |
| 2022 | COVID-19 conspiracy theories as affective discourse. In: Conspiracy Theory Discourses, edited by Demata, M. et al., John Benjamins, pp. 215-238. |
| 2022 | Researching multilingual digital discourse. In: Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis, edited by C. Vasquez. London: Bloomsbury |
| 2017 | (With D. Barton). Methodologies for researching multilingual online texts and practices. In: Researching multilingualism: Critical and ethnographic perspectives, edited by M. Martin Jones and D. Martin. Abingdon: Routeldge. |
| 2015 | Digital Discourse@Public Space: Flows of Language Online and Offline. In Jones, R., Chik, A. and Hafner, C. (Eds.) Discourse and Digital Practices: Doing discourse analysis in the digital age. London: Routledge. |
| 2014 | Language choice and self-presentation in social media: the case of university students in Hong Kong, in Seargeant, P. and Tagg, C. (eds) The Language of Social Media: Community and Identity on the Internet. Palgrave Macmillan, 91-111. |
| 2013 | Text-making practices in online writing spaces: from research to practice, in Goodfellow, R. and Lea, M. (Eds.), Literacy in the Digital University, London: Routledge, 149-161. |
| 2013 | 'My English is so poor…so I take photos'. Meta-linguistic discourse of English online. Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media. Georgetown University Press. |
| 2012 | Researching the texts and practices in an online photo-sharing site. To appear in M. Sebba et al. (Eds). Language mixing and code-switching in writing: Approaches to mixed-language written discourse. London: Routledge, p. 128-145. |
| 2011 | Texts and Practices of Micro-blogging: Status Updates on Facebook. In C. Thurlow and K. Mroczek. (Eds). Digital Discourse: Language in New Media. Oxford University Press, 110-128. |
| 2011 | (With D. Barton). Literacy studies. In R. Wodak, B. Johnstone, and P. Kerswill. (Eds.). The Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics. London: Sage Publications. 598-611. |
| 2009 | (With D. Barton). English and glocal identities on Web 2.0: The case of Flickr.com. In K. K. Tam (Ed.). Englishization in Asia. Hong Kong: Open University of Hong Kong Press, p.1-20. |
| 2007 | Linguistic features of email and ICQ instant messaging in Hong Kong. In B. Danet and S. C. Herring. (Eds.). The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication Online. New York: Oxford University Press. 185-208. |
Articles in Journals
| 2024 | (with NCH Li and R. Jones) Ways of seeing and discourse strategies of naming the novel coronavirus in the US and Hong Kong. Applied Linguistics Review. |
| 2023 | ‘English is our 2nd language, konglish is our mother tongue’: Recolonizing English Through Translingual Activism in a Social Movement. Applied Linguistics, 44(5), 900-915. |
| 2022 | (with T. Virtanen) Face-work in Online Discourse: Practices and Multiple Conceptualizations. Journal of Pragmatics, 184. |
| 2022 | (with D. Chau). ‘I’m not a tech person’: Negotiation of academic personas in polymedia environments. Pragmatics and Society, 12(5), 805-827. |
| 2021 | (with D. Chau). “See you soon! ADD OIL AR!”: Code-switching for face-work in edu-social Facebook groups. Journal of Pragmatics, 184, 18-28. |
| 2021 | (with Tagg, C., Vásquez, C., Eriksson, G., Anderson, C., & Fitzgerald, R.). Discourse, context & media: Relevance in a changing world. Discourse, Context & Media, 39. |
| 2020 | Doxxing as discursive action in a social movement. Critical Discourse Studies. |
| 2019 | Googlish as a resource for networked multilingualism. World Englishes.39 (1): 79-93. |
| 2019 | (with Xiao, R.) English in the linguistic landscape of the Palace Museum: a field-based sociolinguistic approach, Social Semiotics. |
| 2018 | Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Discourse of Social Tagging’. Discourse, Context and Media. 22: 1-3. 185-208. |
| 2017 | (With D. Chau). Language as pride, love, and hate: Archiving emotions through multilingual Instagram hashtags. Discourse, Context & Media. |
| 2017 | (With D. Chau). Discursive construction of identities in a social network-educational space: Insights from an undergraduate Facebook group for a linguistics course. Discourse, Context & Media, 18, 31-39. |
| 2012 | (With D. Barton). Redefining Vernacular Literacies in the age of Web 2.0. Applied Linguistics 33 (3): 282-298. |
| 2011 | (With D. Barton). Constructing Glocal Identities through Multilingual Writing Practices on Flickr.com, International Multilingual Research Journal 5: 39-59. |
| 2007 | Affordances and text-making practices in online instant messaging. Written Communication. 24 (3): 223-249. |
| 2007 | Text-making practices beyond the classroom context: Private instant messaging in Hong Kong. Computers and Composition: An International Journal. Special Issue on Global Perspectives of Computers and Composition. 24 (3): 285-301. |
| Invited Talks & Keynote Speeches | |
| 2026 | Researching the (Post)Digital World: Language, Ethics, and the Researcher as Insider", Keynote speech at the Transdisciplinary Academic Conference for Emerging Scholars (TRACES), The University of Hong Kong (2026-05) |
| 2026 | Aggressive Prescriptivism and Language Policing in Post-Digital Hong Kong", Invited lecture at the Distinguished Lecture Series, organized by the School of English at the University of Hong Kong (2024-04). |
| 2025 | (Post-)Digital Stylistics and the ‘Small Things’ of Memetic Aggression", Keynote/distinguished lecture speaker at the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) Annual Conference 2025: Digital Stylistics, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2025-07). |
| 2024 | Linguicism, Aggressive Prescriptivism, and Identity (Mis)representation in Digital Media", Online-Selves, Selves-Online, Lecture series, organized by Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2024-11). |
| 2022 | Digital discourse analysis in public policy research: The case of doxxing discourse in Hong Kong, Invited lecture at the Digital Language Variation in Context (DiLCo) lecture series, organized by the University of Hamburg, Germany. |
| 2022 | Online Aggression as a Discourse Practice, Invited research seminar, organized by the Department of English Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland (2022-11). |
| 2021 | “Do you speak English?”: Recontextualizing metalinguistic discourse and online hate speech, Keynote speaker at the17th International Pragmatics Conference organized by International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Switzerland (2021-06 to 2021-07) |
| 2021 | Conspiracy Theories as Mediatized Affective Discourse, Invited research seminar, organized by University of Reading, UK (2021-05) |
| 2021 | Online Aggression: A Discourse-analytic Approach in Research Seminar, Invited research seminar, organized by the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics, Hong Kong (2021-05) |
| 2019 | Invited Discussant, for the Panel on Translanguaging and Polymedia at IPrA 2019 conference organized by Jannis Androutsopoulos (2019-06) |
| 2019 | Art as Curated Texts: Authenticating the #instartist identity in social media, Plenary speaker at the HKU Colloquium on Sociolinguistics and the Humanities, organized by School of English, HKU (2019-03) |
| 2018 | From multilingualism to networked multilingualism: The case of ‘Google Translate Sings. Invited speaker at the Associate of Arts in English for Professional Communication (AAEPC) Student Conference, UOW College Hong Kong/Community College of City University, 2018. |
| 2016 | Edu-social Discourses in Facebook Groups for Undergraduate Students, Invited Seminar, organized by Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2016-04) |
| 2015 | Should we worry about our language in the digital age?, Invited speaker at TEDxHKUST, organized by TEDxHKUST, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (2015-10) |
| 2015 | Hashtagging as a literacy practice: Textual Representations of the #HongKong #UmbrellaMovement on Instagram in Lancaster Literacy Research Seminar Series organized by Literacy Research Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom (2015-11) |
Teaching
| ENGE1500 | Introduction to English Linguistics |
| ENGE 2540 | Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence in Legal Processes |
| ENGE 2630 | Language and Society |
| ENGE 3670 | Language, Meaning, and Text |
| ENGE 3970 | Language and the Internet |
| ENGE 5420 | Sociolinguistics |
Service
| 2019-01 to Present | Co Editor-in-Chief, Discourse, Context & Media (Elsevier) |
| 2016-07 to Present | Co-editor of the book series ‘Language and Digital Media’ (Routledge, with Camilla Vasquez and David Barton |
| 2014-01 to Present | Editorial Board Member, Critical Discourse Studies (Taylor & Francis) |
| 2022 to Present | Editorial Board Member, Journal of Language and Discrimination (Equinox) |
| 2017-2021 | Editorial Board Member, Journal of Sociolinguistics (Wiley) |
Grants and Awards
Grants
| Internal | |
| 2019-2020 | Knowledge Construction and Writing Online: Exploring Digital Academic Discourse and Practices in Hong Kong (funded by CUHK Direct Grant for Research, Co-Is: Dennis Chau, Open University of Hong Kong, and D. Barton, Lancaster University) |
| 2019 | The Language of Cyberbullying in Hong Kong: A Pilot Study (Supported by the CUHK Student Campus Work Scheme 2018/19) |
| 2012 | The Interaction between Online and Offline Linguistic Practices (funded by CUHK Direct Grant for Research, Co-I: D. Barton, Lancaster University) |
| 2010 | Multimodal Text-making and Learning in Online Social Spaces: The Case of Flickr.com. (HKD 98,093, funded by CUHK Direct Grant for Research, Co-I: D. Barton, Lancaster University) |
| External | |
| 2024-2026 | Online Aggression in Hong Kong: A Discourse-Centred Online Ethnography (HKD521,000, RGC General Research Fund) |
| 2024-2026 | (Co-PI) University graduates' transitions to post-covid-19 workplaces: The impacts of the pandemic and adjusting to 'new normal' work orders" (C7075-23WF) (HKD 3,913,430, Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), PI: Olga Zayts, HKU) |
| 2022-2023 | (Co-PI) The Education, Social, and Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on University Graduates Transitioning to the Workforce in Hong Kong, (HKD 1,510,190, Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), PI: Olga Zayts, HKU) https://www.hkuriich.org/crfproject |
| 2020-2021 | (Co-PI) Language enhancement at EdUHK and beyond: Fostering a Community of Practice on technology-enhanced language learning and teaching (HKD 1,000,000, Education University of Hong Kong - Community of Practice project fund, Hong Kong) |
| 2021-2022 | Doxxing in Hong Kong: A Discourse-Analytic Perspective. (HKD: 350,000, Public Policy Research Funding Scheme, co-I: D. Chau). |
| 2010-2011 | Language and Writing Activities on Web 2.0: The Case of Young People in Hong Kong (HKD 427,286, RGC General Research Fund) |
| 2008 | Multilingualism in Web 2.0 Spaces: A Pilot Study (HKD 48,920, funded by the OUHK Research and Development Fund, as Principal Investigator) |