Academic Staff

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Sydney
• M.Phil. in Linguistics, University of Hong Kong
• B.A.(Hons) (1st class) in Linguistics and English Studies (double-major), University of Hong Kong
   

Research Interests

• Cognitive Linguistics
• Discourse Analysis
• Language Change (from a grammaticalization perspective)
• Functional Approaches to Comparative Grammar
• Semantics and Discourse-Pragmatics
   

Supervision

I warmly welcome research students who are interested in semantic change, conversation analysis, the stance-marking phenomenon, and contrastive analysis of English and Cantonese from the discourse-pragmatic perspective. Currently I am looking for students who are interested in analyzing:

• Cantonese conversations in an institutional setting;
• the grammatical strategies involved in stance-taking; and,
• the grammaticalization of a particular group of words/structures/constructions.

PhD Supervision:

• (completed-2022) Gladys ZHANG Chenjie. Revealing Holism within the Communicative Patterns in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Consultations: an Interactional Linguistic Approach.
• (completed-2020) Bella ZHANG Yu. Affective-discursive practice in online medical consultations in China: Emotional and empathic acts, identity positions, and power relations.
• (completed-2019) Jesse YIP Wai-chi. Communicating Social Support in Online Self-Help Groups for Anxiety and Depression: a Mixed Methods Discourse Analysis. (as co-supervisor)
   

Selected Publications

• Li, Eden and Winnie Chor, forthcoming. A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese. Routledge.
• Chor, Winnie, 2019. “Learning Cantonese in the Work Context of Hong Kong: Needs, Practices, and Benefits.” In John Wakefield (ed.) Cantonese as a Second Language: Issues, Experiences and Suggestions for Teaching and Learning, Ch.3. Routledge.
• Yap, Foongha and Winnie Chor, 2019. “The grammaticalization of stance markers in Chinese.” In Chris Shei (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis, 230-243. Routledge.
• Chor, Winnie, 2018. Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, Function and Grammaticalization. John Benjamins.
• Chor, Winnie, 2018. Sentence final particles as epistemic modulators in Cantonese conversations: a discourse-pragmatic perspective. Journal of Pragmatics, 129.34-47.