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khychen at hku.hk

Publications

2008 “The Academic Debate on the Standardisation of Cantonese” 
In Kingsley Bolton and Han Yang (eds.). Language in Society in Hong Kong. The Open University of Hong Kong Press. 
Special issue "Accomplishing Identity in Bilingual Interaction" Multilingua.

2008 Bilinguals in Style: Linguistic Practices and Ideologies of Cantonese-English Codemixers in Hong Kong
Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. University of  Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

2005 Multilingual Hong Kong: Present 一 個 Project (co-produced with Gray Carper) 
A 30-minute documentary film which explores code-switching and language attitudes in Hong Kong. The film was shown in a number of conferences (NWAV33, ISB5, LSHK2005, SS16) and is acquired by Films for the Humanities and Sciences for distribution in North America. 
In Cohen, J., McAlister, K., Rolstad, K., & MacSwan, J. (eds.) ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 

2000 “The Sociolinguistics of Chinese in Hong Kong” (co-authored with Kingsley Bolton)
In Louise Aylward, Kingsley Bolton, and Paul Levine (eds.) Language in Society in Hong Kong. The Open University of Hong Kong Press.

2000 “Linguistic Variation” (co-authored with Kingsley Bolton) 
In Louise Aylward, Kingsley Bolton, and Paul Levine (eds.) Language in Society in Hong Kong. The Open University of Hong Kong Press. 


Conference Presentations

2009 Dec American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA
         Paper title: Naturalizing Laziness: Renegotiating Cantonese Identity at the Edge of Post-colonial Hong Kong
 
2008 Nov American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA
         Paper title: Authentic Chinese or Worshipers of the West? Linguistic Levels and the Social Distinctiveness of Code-switching Styles in Hong Kong 
         In a panel "Levels of distinction: On the regimentation and lamination of linguistic levels"

2006 Jul Sociolinguistic Symposium, University of Limerick, Ireland
         Paper title: Positioning and Repositioning: Identity Negotiation of Overseas Returning Bilinguals in Hong Kong 
         In a colloquium panel “Accomplishing Identity in Bilingual Interaction”

2006 Jan Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico
         Paper title: Banana vs. Local: Structural Distinction & Indexicality of two code-switching styles in Hong Kong