Wakefield, John
Programme Director
English Language and Literature
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
China
Biography
John has done his Ph.D at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, M.A at The University of New England, Armidale, Australia and B.A at The University of Texas, Austin
Research Interest
English intonation, Cantonese sentence-final particles. Contrastive analysis of English and Chinese grammar, Cross-cultural studies of Sociopragmatic knowledge
Publications
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Wakefield JC (2013) When Cultural Scripts Collide: Conflicting Child-rearing Values in a Mixed-culture Home. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 42: 376–392.
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Wakefield JC (2014) The forms and meanings of English rising declaratives: Insights from Cantonese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 42: 109–149.
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Wakefield JC (forthcoming) Intonational Morphology. Springer.
