Publications, Grants, and Talks
Selected publications
Some papers are available at Academia.edu and ResearchGate.
Chen, K. (2018) "Ideologies of Language Standardization: The case of Cantonese in Hong Kong" In James Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. UK: Oxford University Press.
Kang, A. and Chen, K. (2017) “Gender stereotype as a vehicle for social change? The case of the Kong Girl”. Journal of Gender and Language (Journal of the International Gender and Language Association). 2017, Vol 11, no.4, pp.460-481. USA: Equinox Publishing. SJR Q1.
Chu, S., Zhang, Y., Chen, K., et al. (2017) "The effectiveness of wikis for project-based learning in different disciplines in higher education". The Internet and Higher Education. Vol 33, pp. 49-60. The Netherlands: Elsevier. SJR Q1.
Chen, K. (2016) "The transnational journey and multilingual repertoire of an Indonesian Chinese couple in Hong Kong: the story of one family, three places, and multiple languages” In Li Wei (ed.) Multilingualism and the Chinese diaspora. pp.237-254. Routledge Critical Studies of Multilingualism. UK: Routledge.
Chen, K. (2015) “Styling bilinguals: Analyzing structurally distinctive code-switching styles in Hong Kong” In Gerald Stell and Kofi Yakpo (eds.) Code-switching between structural and socio-linguistic perspectives. pp.163-183. Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.
Chen, K. and Kang, M.A. (2015) “Demeanor indexicals, interpretive discourses and the “Kong Girl” stereotype: Constructing gender ideologies in social media”. The Journal of Language and Sexuality. Issue 4:2. pp. 193-222. USA: John Benjamins Publishing Company. SJR Q3.
Kang, A. and Chen, K. (2014) “Stancetaking and the Hong Kong Girl in a shifting heterosexual marketplace”. Sage: Discourse & Society. 25(2) pp. 205-220. SJR Q1.
Chen, K (2009) “The Academic Debate on the Standardisation of Cantonese” in Kingsley Bolton and Han Yang (eds.). Language in Society in Hong Kong. pp. 137-154. The Open University of Hong Kong Press.
Chen, K (2008) “Positioning and Repositioning: Identity Negotiation of Overseas Returning Bilinguals in Hong Kong” Multilingua. Vol 27, Issue 1-2, pp. 57-75. Walter de Gruyter. SJR Q1.
Films
Chen, K. and Carper, G. (2017, 2005) Multilingual Hong Kong: A Sociolinguistic Case Study of Code-Switching. Documentary film, 30 minutes. USA: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Chen, K. (2017) Multilingual Hong Kong: Coming home as a stranger. Documentary film, 8 minutes. English and Cantonese, with English subtitles.
Linguistic Corpus
Chen, K. (2018) Multilingual Hong Kong Corpus. Hong Kong Cantonese-English-Putonghua multilingual adult spontaneous speech corpus. 100,000 words, 15-hour audio recording synced with three-tier transcription and translation in ELAN format. GRF-funded.
Grants
As Principal Investigator
Macau SAR Government DSEJ. Specialized Subsidy Scheme for Macao Higher Education Institutions in the Area of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences of Higher Education Fund. Project “Discourse Analysis of Mindfulness-based Intervention”. Sole Investigator. MOP 173,200.
Macau University Start-up Research Grant. "Discourse Analysis of Mindfulness-based Intervention". Sole Investigator. MOP 200,000.
Hong Kong Government Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF) “Indonesian Chinese as rootless transnationals: a sociolinguistic ethnography of their 60-year journey from Indonesia to China and Hong Kong.” Sole Investigator. HKD 378,836.
Hong Kong Government Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF) “Coming home as strangers: A sociolinguistic ethnography of transnational bilinguals in Hong Kong.” Sole Investigator. HKD 572,643.
HKU Faculty of Arts Louis Cha Fund for conference organization, “English in Multilingual Asia” roundtable. As principal investigator. Co-I: Lisa Lim, Elaine Ho. HKD 77,000.
University of Hong Kong Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research, “Rootless transnationals: A sociolinguistic ethnography of returned Indonesian Chinese's 60-year-journey from Indonesia to China and Hong Kong.” Sole Investigator. HKD 80,590.
University of Hong Kong Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research, “Overseas returnees’ linguistic strategies in multilingual Hong Kong: a corpus and sociolinguistic analysis.” Sole Investigator. HKD 110,000.
As Co-investigator
Hong Kong Government Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF) "Communicating Genetic Risk and Uncertainty across an Individual's Lifespan vis-à-vis Family: A Discourse Analytic Study of Genetic Counselling in Hong Kong" PI: Olga Zayts. HKD496,465.
Knowledge Exchange Impact project fund – Visualizing the voices of Women migrant workers in Hong Kong. PI: Julie Ham, Sociology Department, HKU. HKD 100,000.
Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) Research and Development Projects.“Migration, Social Class and Language Education in Hong Kong: the Case of Secondary School Students with South Asian and Mainland Chinese backgrounds.” PI: Miguel Pérez-Milans. HKD 2.43 million.
Inter-university Cooperation Projects. Bank Santander and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. “Superdiversity, multilingualism and the translocalization of higher education: Network trajectories of students in Madrid and Hong Kong.” PI: Miguel Pérez-Milans, and other Co-Is: Adam Jaworski, Lisa Lim. EUR15,000.
University of Hong Kong Teaching Development Grants. “Using Web 2.0 technologies to enhance experiential and capstone learning in different HKU faculties.” PI: Sam Chu, Faculty of Education. HKD 343,120.
Talks
Invited Talks
Chen, K. 2024 "Mindfulness for postgraduate student well-being". Invited speaker, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan.
Chen, K. 2024 Invited key discussant at the Language Education Conference: Dissolving the Theory-Practice Dualism, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Chen, K. 2023 “Creating a positive classroom climate and inspiring learning with mindfulness”, keynote, the 6th CLE Conference on Teaching and Learning, Southern University of Science and Technology.
Chen, K. 2023 “Teaching online reasoning and critical thinking in the infodemic era" Public lecture, Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
Chen, K. 2022 “Mindfulness for wellbeing and English language teaching: an exploration” Public lecture, Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
Chen, K. 2021 "Transnationality and language worlds of a family of Indonesian Chinese" Public lecture, Ministry of Education Bay of Bengal Countries Research Centre, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
Chen, K. 2021 "Research and methodologies in language and gender" Lecture for MA students, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
Chen, K. 2021 "How can mindfulness improve teacher wellbeing" Keynote, the Macao Association for the Advancement of English Language Teaching Conference.
Chen, K. 2021 "Our beliefs about the English languages, and why do they matter?" Public lecture (starts at 1:19:00) Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
Chen, K. 2020 “Kong Girl Stereotypes in Language and Gender Studies” Guest lecture, MA anthropology class, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chen, K. 2019 "Transnational identities and ideologies in Hong Kong". In Ancestry and Language Symposium, University of Sydney.
Chen, K. 2017 "Language ideologies and identities in Hong Kong". In Center for Language Education, South University of Science & Technology of China.
Chen, K. 2015 "The politics of daily life: a gender stereotype in Hong Kong". In the Department of English, University of Colombo.
Chen, K. 2015 "Language and identity in two mobile communities in Hong Kong". In Worldwide Universities Network "Understanding Globalisation - Margins and Peripheries" Research Group Workshop on "Contemporary Chinese mobilities". The University of Cape Town.
Chen, K. and Kang, A. 2014 “Demeanor indexicals and the ‘Kong Girl’ stereotype in social media”. Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguistics Seminar series.
Chen, K. 2014 “Language and identity in Hong Kong: Sociolinguistic insights from the local and returnee bilinguals” The School of English, University of Nottingham Ningbo.
Chen, K. 2012 “Styling bilinguals: How structurally distinctive code-switching styles index social groups in Hong Kong” in Code-switching at the crossroads between structural and socio-linguistic perspectives conference. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
Chen, K. 2010 “Bilinguals in style and the place of English in the positioning of Hong Kong locals”. The English Department, University of Macau.
Chen, K. and Lim, L. 2010 “English in Contemporary, Multilingual Asia”. The English Studies in Asian Contexts Conference, Seoul National University.
Conference Panel/Roundtable Organization/Discussant
2021 Organizing Committee member. Sociolinguistic Symposium 23, University of Hong Kong.
2018 American Anthropological Association Society of Linguistic Anthropology Inaugural Spring Conference, University of Pennsylvania.
2016 "Gender impossibility? New boundary practices in Asian Chinese Societies". Chair, invited panel. The 9th International Gender and Language Association Conference. City University of Hong Kong.
2016 “Kongish Daily and new Hong Kong English”. Discussant, Special session of the Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguistics annual meeting.
2015 “English in multilingual Asia”. Chair, with Lisa Lim, invited roundtable, the Sociolinguistics of Globalization Conference. University of Hong Kong.
2012 “Gender ideologies in public discourses”. Chair, with Agnes Kang, Sociolinguistic Symposium 19, Freie Universität Berlin.
Conference Presentations
Xu, JQ and Chen, K. 2024 "Transformative Power of Online Mindfulness Training for Research Postgraduate Students: A Mixed Methods Randomized Controlled Trial" International Conference of Mindfulness, University of Bangor.
Yang, H. and Chen, K. 2024 "Reducing foreign language anxiety in a mindfulness-integrated university English classroom: An ethnographic observation" Poster. International Conference of Mindfulness, University of Bangor.
Xu, JQ and Chen, K. 2022 "Effects of an eight-week online mindfulness program on wellbeing in research postgraduate students: preliminary quantitative and qualitative results from a randomized controlled trial" International Mindfulness Conference Asia Pacific, University of Monash.
Xu, JQ and Chen, K. 2022 "網上八周靜觀課程對提升研究生幸福感的成效：隨機候補名單對照試驗的初步結果" 第三屆中國靜觀應用發展論壇, 北京.
Chen, K. 2021 “Transnational Hong Kong: the stories of places, times, and people”. Sociolinguistics Symposium 23. The University of Hong Kong.
Chen, K. 2021 “Chronotope and the idea of home among transnational returnees in Hong Kong”. Special Session, the language effects of im/mobility, New Waves of Analyzing Variation-Asia Pacific 6, February. National University of Singapore.
Chen, K. 2018 “Bewildered Hong Kong: multilingual practices, language ideologies, and identities”. Sociolinguistic Symposium 22 at Auckland.
Chen, K. 2017 “The voices of self in transnational narratives of Indonesian Chinese women in Hong Kong”. British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference. University of Leeds.
Chen, K. 2017 “The view from the periphery: the voices of self in transnational narratives”. In panel “Voices from the Periphery: power, language ideology and interactional regimes in multilingual settings”. 18th World Congress of Applied Linguistics at Rio de Janeiro.
Chen, K. 2016 "Return migration, multilingual practices, and new flexible identities in Hong Kong". In a panel "Polycentric approaches to language and transnational migration". Sociolinguistic Symposium 21, Universidad De Murcia.
Kang, A. and Chen, K. 2016 Gender Stereotype as a vehicle for social change? The case of the Kong Girl. In an invited panel "Gender impossibility? New boundary practices in Asian Chinese Societies", The 9th International Gender and Language Association Conference, City University of Hong Kong.
Chen, K. and Kang, A. 2015 Mediatization and Enregisterment of a Gender Stereotype: The Case of the ‘Kong Girl’. In a panel "Mediatization and Enregisterment of Contemporary Asian Values", American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting at Denver.
Chen, K. 2015 “English in multilingual Hong Kong” in an invited roundtable “English in multilingual Asia”, the Sociolinguistics of Globalization Conference. The University of Hong Kong.
Kang, A. and Chen, K. 2015 “Saving the “(Hong) Kong Girl” stereotype in social media discourse”. In a panel “Articulating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia”. The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Conference. The University of Hong Kong.