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Publications & presentations

Publications

In prep

Ariel Chan, Andrew Cheng, Judith Kroll, and Gregory Scontras. Toward a new framework for understanding variation in heritage bilinguals.

2022

Ariel Chan. The use of animal classifiers as a stance negotiation strategy in Cantonese interactional discourse. Text and Talkhttps://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0223

Judith Kroll, Ariel Chan, Andrew Cheng, and Gregory Scontras. How to frame bilingualism in context: Putting people and places in mind. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000074

2018

Yap, Foong Ha, Ariel Shuk-ling Chan and Brian Lap-ming Wai. Constructing political identities through characterization metaphor, humor and sarcasm: An analysis of the 2012 Legislative Council Election debates in Hong Kong. In Not Just a Laughing Matter: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humor in China (pp. 147-167), edited by Sharon R. Wesoky and King-fai Tam. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4960-6_9

2015

Ariel Shuk-ling Chan and Foong Ha Yap. ‘‘Please continue to be an anime lover’’: The use of defamation metaphors in Hong Kong electoral discourse. Journal of Pragmatics, 87, 31-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.07.001

Presentations

2023

Ariel Chan and Cheer Wu. Using Laughter as a Stance Marker to Negotiate Group Identity. The 18th Conference of International Pragmatics Association, July 9-14, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Ariel Chan, Shoichi Iwasaki, and Judith Kroll. The Impact of Interactional Context on Heritage Bilingual Speakers’ Language Regulation and Cognitive Control during the Pandemic, The 14th Heritage Language Virtual Research Institute, June 5-8, UCLA, United States. (Poster)

Ariel Chan. Code-switching and Bicultural Identity in Cantonese-English bilinguals. Sociolinguistics Symposium, March 2-3, UIUC, United States.

2022

Ariel Chan, Shoichi Iwasaki, Judith Kroll. Examining Bilingualism Through Code-Switching: How Does Bicultural Identity Shape Cognitive Control and Bilingual Processing. The Psychonomic Society 63nd Annual Meeting, November 17-20.

Ariel Chan, Shoichi Iwasaki, Judith Kroll. Bilingualism in Different Forms:  How Cultural Identity and Cognitive Control Shape Code-switching Preferences. The Psychonomic Society 62nd Annual Meeting, November 4-7.

2021

Ariel Chan. Code-switching and social identity negotiation in Cantonese-English bilinguals, The 17th Conference of International Pragmatics Association, June 27- July 2.

Ariel Chan, Andrew Cheng, Judith Kroll, and Gregory Scontras. Toward a new framework for understanding variation in heritage bilinguals, 13th Heritage Language Virtual Research Institute, June 7, online. 

Ariel Chan. Code-switching, cultural identity, and cognitive control in Cantonese-English bilinguals. 4th California Meeting on Psycholinguistics. May 22-23.

Ariel Chan, Shoichi Iwasaki, Judith Kroll. What does cultural identity tell us about bilingual processing and cognitive control? Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2022. October 24-26.

2020

Ariel Chan. Code-switched Words Recognition by Cantonese-English Bilinguals. Bilingual Matters Research Symposium 2020. Sept 22, online. (Poster) 

2019

Ariel Chan. “I will beat you up, you tiu4 rascal”: The Use of Non-Human Classifiers as Derogatory Attitudinal Markers in Cantonese. The 16th Conference of International Pragmatics Association, June 9-14, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong.

2018

Foong Ha Yap, Steven Ming-chiu Wong and Ariel Shuk-ling Chan. A Perceptual Study on the Use of Elaborated Visual Metaphors in Identity Negotiation in Electoral Discourse. The 24th Annual Conference on Language Interaction, and Culture, April 5-7, UCLA, United States. (Poster)

Ariel Chan. ‘He can make himself look more young’: the use of comparative constructions of Cantonese heritage speakers in the Greater Toronto Area. The 3rd International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, Feb 16-17, UCLA, United States.

Foong Ha Yap, Steven Ming-chiu Wong, Brian Lap-ming Wai and Ariel Shuk-ling Chan. Visual Metaphors and the Construction of Political Identities: An Analysis of the 2012 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election. RaAM-11, July 1-4,

Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

2015

Samuel Lo, Junrui Wu, Qianling Wang, Ariel Chan and Naomi Nagy. Toronto Cantonese heritage speakers’ use of classifiers. APLA-39, Nov 6-7, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada.

Ariel Shuk-ling Chan and Naomi Nagy. Toronto Cantonese heritage speakers’ use of sortal classifiers. The Fifteenth Workshop on Cantonese: Cantonese Classifiers (WOC-15), April 11, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

2014

Foong Ha Yap and Ariel Shuk-ling Chan. Visual Metaphors and the Construction of Political Identities: An Analysis of the 2012 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election. The 7th International Conference on Multimodality (7-ICOM), June 11-13, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

2013

Ariel Shuk-ling Chan and Foong Ha Yap. 2013. ‘Ladders for climbing up or jumping off?’ On the interpretation of metaphors in political discourse in Hong Kong”. Free Linguistics Conference (FLC-2013), September 27-28, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

Foong Ha Yap, Ariel Chan, Brian Wai and Winnie Chor. How political leaders construct common ground in electoral discourses in Hong Kong. The 13th Conference of International Pragmatics Association, September 8-13, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India.

Ariel Shuk-ling Chan. The emergence of zeonhang as a progressive marker in Hong Kong written Chinese - and its typological comparison with Dutch aan het construction. The Association for Linguistic Typology – 10th Biennial Conference, August 15- 18, Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. (Poster)

Ariel Shuk-ling Chan, Tak-sum Wong and Foong Ha Yap. On the development of benefactive lai in Cantonese: Implications for the relationship between benefactive and purposive uses of directional verbs. The Association for Linguistic Typology – 10th Biennial Conference, August 15-18, Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. (Poster)

Ariel Shuk-ling Chan and Foong Ha Yap. “Please continue to be an anime lover”: How political identities are constructed or damaged through the deployment of characterization metaphor and humor in Hong Kong political discourse. The 21st Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics, June 7-9, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Foong Ha Yap, Ariel Shuk-ling Chan and Tak-sum Wong. On the grammaticalization of stative verbs into continuative markers: the case of asyik ‘desire’ in Malay and gwaazyu ‘keep thinking about’ in Cantonese. The 23rd Annual

Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, May 29-31, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

2012

Ariel Shuk-ling Chan. Grammaticalization of a New Aspect Marker in Hong Kong Written Chinese. The Annual Research Forum for The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, December 1, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.

Ariel Shuk-ling Chan and Foong Ha Yap. Metaphors and Conceptual Blends in Hong Kong Political Discourse. The Annual Research Forum for The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, December 1, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.

2016

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