Li Ying Xi, Cissy
Senior Lecturer
Language Centre
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
China
Biography
PhD in Applied Linguistics (Lancaster, UK), M.A. in Applied Linguistics (TESOL) (Sydney, Australia), Postgrat Dip in Applied Linguistics (Beijing UST, PRC), B.A. in English (Fuyang Normal, PRC)
Research Interest
Understanding how rhetorical choices made by writers to (or failing to) achieve desired effects has always been fascinating to me. This understanding enables me to gain insights into how different facets of language achieve persuasion, present logic and project identities at textual, interactional and cultural levels. I am particularly interested in such achievement, presentation and projection in academic writings of both experienced and novice writers. My research interests are hence in the teaching and learning of academic writing, contrastive rhetoric, discourse analysis and disciplinary identity.
Publications
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Li C (2002) Spoken communication in Chinese Medicine -a VCD, jointly produced with ITSC and the Language Center of HKBU.
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Li C (2009) The study of disciplinary identity: some theoretical underpinnings HKBU Papers in Applied Language Studies 13: 80-119.
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Li C (2014) The reflexive self in personal and disciplinary identity construction in academic texts. Book review of “Disciplinary identities: individuality and Community in Academic Discourse by Ken Hyland†CUP, 2012, American Anthropologist.
