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Cheng, Winnie (Prof.)
Professor of English
BA, CertEd, AdvDipEd, MEd, PhD, University of Hong Kong
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Winnie_Cheng4
Conversation analysis
(Critical) discourse analysis
Corpus-driven language learning
Intercultural communication in business
(Critical) genre analysis
Syllabus design and materials writing
Conversational analysis
Corpus linguistics
Discourse intonation
Lexical Studies
Outcome-based education
Teaching and language corpora
Work-integrated education
Research Professor, Research Centre for Legal Translation, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China, since 2011
Guest Professor, School of International Studies, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, 2009-2011
Adjunct Professor, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, since 2010
Adjunct Professor, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, since 2011
Honorary member, Chinese Society of Corpus Linguistics, since 2012
Elected member, International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Consultation Board, 2012-2017
Fellow, Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, since 2011
Secretary cum Treasurer, Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association, since 2009 (President: Prof. Vijay Bhatia)
Journal Editorship
Chief Editor, The Asian ESP Journal, 2009-2014
Locating, identifying and mapping the use of reporting verbs in empirical research articles: Cross-generic and cross-disciplinary perspectives
Corpus-based learning and teaching: Creating a Corpus of Research Articles 2014
The Rule of Law and the Threat of Civil Disobedience in Post-handover Hong Kong: Metaphorical Structures in Local and Overseas Media Coverage
Data-driven learning in research publication for PhD students (Project Co-Leader) (UGC Language-related Collaborative Projects Initiative)
Multimodal Analysis of Hotel Homepages: A Comparison of Hotel Websites Across Different Star Categories
Enhancing students' professional competence and generic qualities through Writing in English Across the Curriculum
Nurse-client Consultations in the Mobile Integrative Health Centre: Communities of Practice, Crucial Sites, Critical Moments and Strategic Progress
The Discourse Representations of Financial Analyst Reports
Court Judgments: Discourse Analysis and Contrastive Studies
Western perceptions of Hong Kong Ten Years On: A Critical Cultural Discourse Analysis of Public Discourse
Excellence in Work-Integrated Education: Evaluation Evidence of Achievement of Learning Outcomes
Describing Surveying and Construction Engineering English Using a Specialised Corpus of Engineering English
English as the Language of Asian Business and Profession (ELABP)
Determining 'Aboutness' in the Language of the Financial Services Industry: Keywords and Phraseology
Constructing a Taxonomy of Professional Communicative Competencies derived from the Four Key Industries in Hong Kong
Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) and Professional Communication
Determining 'Aboutness' in Business English: Keywords and Phraseology
Learning and Teaching the Phraseology of English
An Initial Professional Communication Audit in the Field of Logistics: Project Management in Geomatics
A Description of Spoken English in Hong Kong
Prosodically Transcribing a Corpus of Spoken Public Discourse in Hong Kong for Learning, Teaching and Research Purposes
On-line Collaborative Assessment to Enhance Teaching and Learning, a sub-project of 'Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Assessment'
Delivering Lecture Content On-line: In What Ways Does It Impact Our Students?
Compiling a Corpus of Spoken Public Discourse in Hong Kong for Learning, Teaching and Research Purposes
Intercultural Communication in Business and Professional Organisations in Hong Kong
Describing, Learning and Teaching the Lexis and Grammar of Spoken English
A Study to Determine the Feasibility of Incorporating Peer Assessment in ELT at the HKPU
The Discourse of Accountancy in Professional-Client Encounters
Community of Practice: Enhancing students' English abilities
Doctor-patient Communication in Hong Kong: Assignment, Issues and Implications
Determining the lexico-grammatical specificity of texts, genres and specialised corpora through the systematic analysis of 'concgrams'
Perspectives on the learning and use of English for professional purposes in Hong Kong
Using Course-embedded Assessments for Institutiional Assessment, Pilot Project on Institutional Learning Outcomes Assessment
Small-scale Benchmarking Study Using the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), Pilot Project on Institutional Learning Outcomes Assessment
Assessment of Communicative Competence of Professionals in Engineering
Towards Outcome-Based Integration of Language and Computer Skills to Meet Workplace Needs in Hong Kong
The Discourse Processes and Products of Professionals in Hong Kong
Creating the OLD Corpus for Research, Learning and Teaching Purposes
Professional Literacy in Hong Kong
The Communicative Role of Intonation in Hong Kong English
The Intonation of Hong Kong English: Form and Function
Corpus Linguistics: A Bridge between IT and Discourse Analysis
Learning to Learn: Developing Students' Cognitive, Motivational and Interpersonal
Strategies for Learning
Compiling a Corpus of Spoken Business English in Hong Kong for Learning, Teaching and Research Purposes
The Language of Conference Presentations (Pilot Study)
Compiling and Exploiting a Spoken Corpus of Academic English in Hong Kong for Learning, Teaching and Research Purposes
ELT through WWW (World Wide Web): An Investigation to Identify the Techniques for Using the Internet for English Language Teaching
A Corpus-based Study of the Conversational English of Non-native Speakers in Hong Kong
An Investigation into the Relationship between Language Learning Beliefs and Language Learning Strategies - A Joint Research Project with the Nanjing University
The Use of English in the Professional Workplace
All co-authored papers are shared equally by the authors.
Cheng, W., Chan, M., Chiu, H., Kwok, A., Lam, K. H., Lam, K. M. K., Lim, G., & Wright, R. (2014). Enhancing students' professional competence and generic qualities through writing in English across the curriculum. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 299 pp.
Cheng, W. (2012). Exploring corpus linguistics: Language in action. London: Routledge. 241 pp.
Cheng, W., Greaves, C., & Warren, M. (2008). A corpus-driven study of discourse intonation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 325 pp.
Cheng, W. (2003). Intercultural conversation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 274 pp.
Gesuato, S., Bianchi, F., & Cheng, W. (2015). (Eds.) Teaching, learning and investigating about pragmatics: Principles, methods and practices. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Poppi, F. & Cheng, W. (2013). (Eds.). The three waves of globalization: Winds of change in professional, institutional and academic genres. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishers. [Isbn13: 978-1-4438-5159-6; Isbn: 1-4438-5159-0]
V.K. Bhatia, W. Cheng, B. Du-Babcock, & J. Lung (Eds.) (2009). Language for Professional Communication: Research, Practice & Training. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.297 pp. [ISBN: 978-962-367-652-6]
Cheng, W., & Kong, K. C.C. (Eds.) (2009). Professional communication: Collaboration between academics and practitioners. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 242 pp. [ISBN: 978-962-209-965-4] (Contributors: Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Winnie Cheng, Ammy Yuen Yee Chan, Hiroko Itakura, Yeonkwon Jung, Kenneth C.C. Kong, Priscilla Leung, Jinjun Wang, Jan Renkema, and Hans J. Ladegaard)
(Co-) Editor of Journals
Cheng, W. & Wang, M. J. (Eds.). (2014). The Asian ESP Journal, Special Issue. Brisbane, Australia: English Language Education Publishing. ISSN On-line: 1833-3001, ISSN Print: 1833-2994
Cheng, W. (Ed.) (2013). Special Issue, The Asian ESP Journal, 9(2). The Joint International Conference: CAESP 1 and ESP in Asia 4, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 13-16 December 2012.
Cheng, W. & Cheng, L. (Eds.) (2012). Law as professional communication. Special Issue, International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse, 2(4). 98 pp. Academic Scholars Publishing House. ISSN: 1839-8308
Salvi. R., & Cheng, W. (Eds.) (2013). The use of English in intercultural professional settings. Virtual encounters and identities. Textus, English Studies in Italy, XXVI(1). 178 pp. Rome, Italy: Carocci editore.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Cheng, W., Lam, W. Y. Phoenix, and Kong, K. K. Kenneth. (July 2019). Learning English through Workplace Communication: Linguistic devices of interpersonal meaning in textbooks in Hong Kong. English for Specific Purposes, 55, 28-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2019.03.004
Cheng, W., & Suen, A. (2018). Images of hotel website advertising: Comparing 3-star, 4-star and 5-star hotels in Hong Kong. In Y. N. Leung, K. Johanna, S. Y. Hwang, & Y. Chen (Eds.), Reconceptualizing English language teaching and learning in the 21st Century: A special monograph in memory of Professor Kai-Chong Cheung (pp. 231-246). Taiwan: Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.
Cheng, W., & Ching, T. (2018). 'Not a guarantee of future performance': The local grammar of disclaimers. Applied Linguistics, 39(3), 263-301; https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amw006
Cheng, W. (2016). Discursive competence of professionals in Hong Kong. In Leung, Y.-N. (Ed.). Epoch making in English language teaching and learning: A special monograph for celebration of ETA-ROC's 25th anniversary (pp. 264-286). Taipei, Taiwan: Crane Publishing Co Ltd.
Cheng, L., Cheng, W., & Li, J. (2016). Defamation case law in Hong Kong: A corpus- based study. Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, 208, 203–222. ISSN (Online) 1613-3692, ISSN (Print) 0037-1998, doi: 10.1515/sem- 2015-0114, October 2015
Ho, J., & Cheng, W. (2016). Metaphors in financial analysis reports: How are emotions expressed? English for Specific Purposes, 43, 37-48. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889490616300278
Li, J., Cheng, L., & Cheng, W. (2016). Deontic meaning making in legislative discourse. Semiotica. Volume 2016, Issue 209, Pages 323–340, ISSN (Online) 1613-3692, ISSN (Print) 0037-1998, doi: 10.1515/sem-2016-0002, January 2016
Cheng, W. (2016). Introduction. Discourse and communication in organizations. Pragmatics and Society, 7(1), 1-7. doi 10.1075/ps.7.1.001int
Cheng, W. (2015). Discourse intonation: a corpus-driven study of prominence on pronouns. In D. Biber & R. Reppen (eds.). Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics (pp. 75-89). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cheng, W. (2015). Utility specialist in Hong Kong: A corpus study of perception of communicative competence. Corpus Linguistics Research, 1, 21-51.
Cheng, W., & Ching, T. N. H. (2015). Speech acts. In J. M. Bennett (ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of intercultural competence (pp. 766-769). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483346267.n256
Cheng, W., & Seto, A. (2015). 'Thanks a bunch': Cross-cultural comparison of the speech act of thanking. In S. Gesuato, F. Bianchi, & W. Cheng. (Eds.) Teaching, learning and investigating pragmatics: Principles, methods and practices (pp. 363-386). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Cheng, W., & Ho, J. (2015). A corpus study of bank financial analyst reports: Semantic fields and metaphors. International Journal of Business Communication, 1-25. doi: 10.1177/2329488415572790
Cheng, L., Cheng, W., & Li, J. (2015). Jury instructions in Hong Kong: A Gricean perspective. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 22(1), 35-55. doi: 10.1558/ijsll.v22i1.15400
Cheng, W., & O'Keeffe, A. (2015). Vagueness. In K. Aijmer & C. Rühlemann (eds.), Corpus pragmatics: A handbook (pp. 360-378). UK; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cheng, W. & Ho, J. (2014). Brainwashing or nurturing positive values: Competing voices in Hong Kong's national education debate, Journal of Pragmatics, 74, 1-14.
Cheng, L., Sin, K. K., & Cheng, W. (2014). Legal translation: A sociosemiotic approach. Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, 201, 17-33.
Cheng, L., Cheng, W., & Sin, K.K. (2014). Revisiting legal terms: A semiotic perspective. Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, 202, 167-182.
Cheng, W. & Suen, A. (2014). Multimodal analysis of hotel homepages: A comparison of hotel websites across different star categories. In W. Cheng & M. J. Wang (Eds.), The Asian ESP Journal, Special Issue, 5-33.
Cheng, L., & Cheng, W. (2014). Documentary evidence as hegemonic reconstruction. Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, 200, 165–184.
Lam, P. W. Y., Cheng, W., & Kong, K. (2014). Learning English through workplace communication: An evaluation of existing resources in Hong Kong. English for Specific Purposes, 34, 68-78.
Cheng, W., & Cheng, L. (2014). Epistemic modality and court judgements: A corpus-driven comparison of civil cases in Hong Kong and Scotland. English for Specific Purposes, 33, 15-26.
Cheng, W. (2014). Using concgrams to investigate research article sections. In M. Gotti & D. S. Giannoni (eds.), Corpus analysis for descriptive and pedagogical purposes: ESP perspectives (pp. 63-84). Bern: Peter Lang.
Cheng, W. (2014). Corpus analyses of professional discourse. In V. Bhatia & S. Bremner (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of language and professional communication (pp. 13-25). London and New York: Routledge.
Cheng, W., & Lam, P. W. Y. (2013). Western perceptions of Hong Kong ten years on: A corpus-driven critical discourse study. Applied Linguistics, 34(2), 173-190.
Cheng, W., Chung, W. Y. J., & Wong, M. C. (2013). Gender Communication: Nurse-client interactions in the Mobile Integrative Health Centre. Linguistic Research, 12, 139-157.
Salvi, R. & Cheng, W. (2013). Introduction. In R. Salvi & W. Cheng (Eds.), The use of English in intercultural professional settings. Virtual encounters and identities. Textus, English Studies in Italy, XXVI(1), 7-11. Rome, Italy: Carocci editore.
Cheng, W. (2013). Semantic prosody. In C.A. Chapelle (ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (pp. 1-7). Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Cheng, W. (2013). Corpus-based linguistic approaches to critical discourse analysis. In C.A. Chapelle (ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (pp. 1-8). Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Cheng, W. (2013). Corpora: Chinese language. In C.A. Chapelle (ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (pp. 1-7). Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell.
Cheng, W. (2013). The pragmatics of Q&A interactions in public electronic and media discourses. In Y. L. Pan and D. Z. Kádár (eds.), Chinese discourse and interaction: Theory and practice (pp. 248-270). Sheffield, UK: Equinox.
Cheng, W., & Leung, M. (2012). Exploring phraseological variations by concgramming: The realization of complete patterns of variations, Linguistic Research, 29(3), 617-638. Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University, South Korea.
Cheng, W., Greaves, C., Sinclair, J. McH, & Warren, M. (2012). Uncovering the extent of the phraseological tendency: Towards a systematic analysis of concgrams. In D. Biber, & R. Reppen (eds). Corpus linguistics (pp. 225-242). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
Cheng, L., & Cheng, W. (2012). Legal interpretation: Meaning as social construction. Semiotica, 192, 427-448.
Cheng, L., Ni, S., Sin, K. K., & Cheng, W. (2012). A sociosemiotic approach to fundamental rights in China. Semiotica, 190(1/4), 41-55.
Cheng, W. (2012). Speech acts, facework, and politeness: Relationship-building across cultures. In J. Jackson (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication (pp. 148-163). London: Routledge.
Cheng, W. (2011). Teaching professional English and communication: Forming alliances with the industries. In W. C. Ho (Ed.), Teaching English language and literature: Linking theory to practice (pp. 3-20). Taiwan, Republic of China: Feng Chia University.
Cheng, W., & Lam, P. (2011) Prosody in discourse. In J. P. Gee & M. Handford (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (pp. 271-284). London: Routledge.
Cheng, W. (2011). 'Excellence always': A genre analysis of engineering company brochures. In Salvi, R, & Tanaka, Hi. (Eds.), Intercultural interactions in business and management (pp. 45-72). Bern: Peter Lang.
Cheng, W. (2011). Empowering independent learners: Hong Kong Professional Corpora. In H. Rohany, H. Osman, & R. Nair (Eds.), Texturing ELT for new world realities. Selected papers from the 2nd Malaysian International Conference on Academic Strategies in English Language Teaching (pp. 13-31). Malaysia: University Publication Centre, Universiti Teknologi Mara.
Cheng,W. (2011). Book review: Exploring problems, controversies and debates: Multiple research methods and analytical approaches in linguistics. Linguistics and Education, 22/3, 302-303.
Cheng, W. (2010). The student-situational analyses for adapting English materials. In H.P. Widodo & L. Savova (Eds.) The Lincom guide to materials design in ELT. (pp. 55-70). Muenchen: Lincom.
Cheng, W., & Lam, P. (2010). Media discourses in Hong Kong: Change in representation of human rights. Text & Talk, 30/5, 507-527. doi: 10.1515/TEXT.2010.025
Cheng, W., & Cheng, P. (2010). Correcting others and self-correction in business and professional discourse and textbooks. In A. Trosborg & K.K. Luke (Eds.), Pragmatics across languages and cultures (pp. 443-466). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Cheng, W. (2010). Hong Kong Engineering Corpus: Empowering professionals-in-training to learn the language of their profession. In M. C. Campoy-Cubillo, B. Bellés-Fortuño, & M. L. Gea-Valor (Eds.), Corpus-Based approaches to English language teaching (pp. 67-78). London and New York: Continuum.
Cheng, W. (2010). What can a corpus tell us about language teaching? In M. McCarthy, & A. O'Keeffe (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics (pp. 319-332). London: Routledge. (B-Q11N) [ISBN: 978-0-415-46489-5] pp. 682
Huang, C. R., Cheng, W., Cheung, H.T., Harada, Y., Hong, H.Q., Skoufaki, S., & Chen, H.K.Y. (2010). English learner corpus: Global perspectives with an Asian Focus. In T. E. Kao, & Y. F. Lin (Eds), A new look at language teaching and testing: English as subject and vehicle (pp. 85-118). Taipei, Taiwan: The Language and Testing Language Center. [ISBN: 9-789572-876428]
Cheng, W. (2010). Entries in applied linguistics (pp. 19-21), compliments (pp. 70-71), conversation (pp. 81-82), corpus linguistics (pp. 87-89), cross-cultural pragmatics (pp. 89-92), disagreement (pp. 112-113), discourse coherence (pp. 122-123), discourse cohesion (pp. 123-125), ellipsis (143-144), hedges (pp. 186-187), and vagueness (pp. 487-488). In L. Cummings (Ed.), The pragmatics encyclopedia. London: Routledge. [Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-43096-8, Online ISBN: 9-780415-430968]
Cheng, W. (2009). 'thank you': How do conversationalists in Hong Kong express gratitude? In B. Fraser, & K. Turner (Eds.), Language in life, and a life in language: Jacob Mey – A frestshrift (pp. 39-48).UK: Emerald. [ISBN: 978-1-84855-316-3]
Cheng, W. (2009). Promoting ESP learning, teaching and research through collaboration across disciplines and professions. In T. T. Chiang, W. C. Chuang, & L. T. Li (Eds.), English education and English for specific purposes (pp. 17-24). Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Shih Chien University, Taiwan. Taiwan: Crane Publishing Co. Ltd. [ISBN: 978-986-147-330-7]
Cheng, W., & Tsui, A. (2009) 'ahh ((laugh)) well there is no comparison between the two I think': How do Hong Kong Chinese and native speakers of English disagree with each other. Journal of Pragmatics, 41, 2365-2380.
Cheng, W. (2009). Future horizons: Asia. In F. Bargiela-Chiappini (Ed.), The handbook of business discourse (pp. 481-495). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [ISBN: 978-0-7486-2801-8]
Cheng, W., Greaves, C., Sinclair, J. McH, & Warren, M. (2009). Uncovering the extent of the phraseological tendency: Towards a systematic analysis of concgrams. Applied Linguistics, 30/2, 236-252.
Cheng, W. (2009). Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourse. In J. Flowerdew, & M. Mahlberg (Eds.), Lexical cohesion and corpus linguistics (pp. 65-83). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 124 pp. (ISBN: 978-90-272-2247-3)
Cheng, W. (2009). Income/interest/net: Using internal criteria to determine the aboutness of a text. In K. Aijmer (Ed.), Corpora and language teaching (pp. 157-177). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [ISBN: 978-90-272-2307-4]
Cheng, W. (2009). Professional communicative competences: Four key industries in Hong Kong. In W. Cheng, & K. C. C. Kong (Eds.), Professional communication: Collaboration between academics and practitioners (pp. 31-50). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [ISBN: 978-962-209-965-4]
Cheng, W. (2009). Intercultural professional communication: Approaches and Issues. In W. Cheng, & K. C. C. Kong (Eds.), Professional communication: Collaboration between academics and practitioners (pp. 3-16). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. (with K.C.C. Kong) [ISBN: 978-962-209-965-4]
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2008). // à ONE country two SYStems //: The discourse intonation patterns of word associations. In A. Ädel and R. Reppen (Eds.), Corpora and discourse: The challenges of different settings (pp. 135-153). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [ISBN: 978-90-272-2305-0]
Cheng, W. (2008). Co-constructing prejudiced talk: Ethnic stereotyping in intercultural communication between Hong Kong Chinese and English-speaking westerners. In A. M. Y. Lin (Ed.), Problematizing identity: Everyday struggles in language, culture and education (pp. 171-191). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. [ISBN: 0-8058-5339-1]
Cheng, W. (2008). Concgramming: A corpus-driven approach to learning the phraseology of discipline-specific texts. CORELL: Computer Resources for Language Learning, 1, 22-35. [ISSN: 1988-1746]
Cheng, W., & Mok, E. (2008). Discourse processes and products: Land surveyors in Hong Kong. English for Specific Purposes, 27/1, 57-73.
Cheng, W. (2008). A corpus study of pitch concord. In a cura di M. Pettorino, A. Giannini, M. Vallone, & R. Savy (Eds.), La comunicazione parlata (Spoken communication) (pp. 58-73). Naples: Liguori Editore.
Cheng, W. (2007). 'Sorry to interrupt, but …': Pedagogical implications of a spoken corpus. In M. C. Campoy-Cubillo and M. J. Luzon (Eds.), Spoken corpora in applied linguistics (pp. 199-216). Bern: Peter Lang. (ISSN: 978-3-03911-275-3)
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2007). Online collaborative learning and assessment. In S. Frankland (Ed.), Enhancing teaching and learning through assessment: Deriving an appropriate model (pp. 198-213). The Assessment Resource Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University/The Netherlands: Springer.
Cheng, W. (2007). Discourse patterns in intercultural conversations. In B. Kraft, & R. Geluykens (Eds.), Cross-cultural pragmatics and interlanguage English (pp. 221-242). Muenchen: Lincom Europa. [ISBN: 978-3-89586-776-7]
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2007). Checking understandings in an intercultural corpus of spoken English. In O'Keefe and S. Walsh (Eds.), Corpus-based studies of language awareness. Special issue of Language Awareness, 16/3, 190-207.
Cheng, W. (2007). The use of vague language across spoken genres in an intercultural corpus. In J. Cutting (Ed.), Vague language explored (pp. 161-181). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Cheng, W., & Grundy, P. (2007). Thinking for writing. In Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Manuel Padilla Cruz, Reyes Gómez Morón, & Lucía Fernández Amaya (Eds.), Studies in intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics (pp. 2-36). UK: Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2007). 同儕評核小組專題研集 (Peer assessment of group project learning). In P.W. Leung, & S.Y.R. Berry (Eds.), 導向學習的評估: 教育實務匯編 (Learning oriented assessment: Useful practices) (pp. 64-67). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Cheng, W., & Mok, E. (2006). Cultural preference for rhetorical patterns in business writing. Hong Kong Linguists, 26, 69-80.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2006). I would say be very careful of…: opine markers in an intercultural Business corpus of spoken English. J. Bamford, & M. Bondi (Eds.), Managing interaction in professional discourse. Intercultural and interdiscoursal perspectives (pp. 46-58). Rome: Officina Edizioni. [ISBN: 978-886049026-1]
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2006). Peer assessment of group projects. In D. Carless, G. Joughin, N. F. Liu, & Associates (Eds.), How assessment supports learning: Learning-oriented assessment in action (pp. 92-96). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [ISSN: 978-1-4020-6225-4]
Cheng, W., Greaves, C., & Warren, M. (2006). From n-gram to skipgram to concgram. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 11/4, 411-433.
Cheng, W. (2006). Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourse. In J. Flowerdew & M. Mahlberg (Eds.), Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Corpus Linguistics and Lexical Cohesion, 11(3), 325-344.
Cheng, W. and Warren, M. (2006). "//äyou need to be RUTHless //: Entertaining cross-cultural differences. Language & Intercultural Communication, 6(1), 1-22.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2005). // ® well I have a DIFferent // æ THINking you know //: A corpus-driven study of disagreement in Hong Kong business discourse. In F. Bargiela-Chiappini, & M. Gotti (Eds.), Asian business discourse(s) (pp. 241-270). Frankfurt am main: Peter Lang. [ISBN: 3-03910-804-2]
Cheng, W., Warren, M., & Xu Xun-feng. (2005). Towards a description of spoken English in Hong Kong: Some findings and applications. (对香港英口语的描述,研究发现及应用). In School of Foreign Studies Editorial Committee, South China Normal University (Eds.), Yuliaoku Yuyanxue de Yanjiu Yu Yingyong, (語科庫語言學的研究與應用) (pp. 57-63). China: Northeast Normal University Press.
Cheng, W., Greaves, C., & Warren, M. (2005). The creation of a prosodically transcribed intercultural corpus: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic). International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) Journal, 29, 47-68.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2005). Peer assessment of language proficiency. Language Testing, 22/1, 93-121.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2005). // ä CAN i help you //: The use of rise and rise-fall tones in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 10/1, 85-107.
Cheng, W. (2004). // à did you TOOK // ä from the miniBAR //: What is the practical relevance of a corpus-driven language study to practitioners in Hong Kong's hotel industry? In U. Connor, & T.A. Upton (Eds.), Discourse in the Professions (pp. 141-166). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 333 pp. [ISBN: 90-272-2287-8 (Eur.)/ 1-58811-573-9 US]
Cheng, W. (2004). 'well thank you David for that question': The intonation, pragmatics and structure of Q&A sessions in public discourses. The Journal of Asia TEFL, 1/2, 109-133.
Cheng, W. (2004). // à FRIENDS // æä LAdies and GENtlemen //: Some preliminary findings from a corpus of spoken public discourses in Hong Kong. In U. Connor, & T. A. Upton (Eds.), Applied corpus linguistics: A multidimensional perspective (pp. 35-50). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2003). Indirectness, inexplicitness and vagueness made clearer. Pragmatics, 13(3), 381-400.
Cheng, W. (2003). Humour in intercultural conversation. Semiotica, 146/1/4, 287-306.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. Reprinted in 2003. Having second thoughts: Student perceptions before and after a peer assessment exercise. In P. Stimpson, P. Morris, Y. Fung, & R. Carr (Eds.), Curriculum, learning and assessment: The Hong Kong experience (pp. 261-272). Hong Kong: Open University of Hong Kong.
鄭梁慧蓮、馬丁﹒沃倫 (2003). 對朋輩評估的再思:學生在評估前後所抱持的觀念 mPhilip Stimpson, Paul Morris, Yvonne Fung, Ronnie Carr / 編; 黃婉儀、陳瑞堅、馮施鈺珩 / 譯 m 課程、學習與評估:香港的經驗 m 香港公開大學出版社 (pp. 287-299). (translated from Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (1997). Having second thoughts: Student perceptions before and after a peer assessment exercise. Studies in Higher Education, 22/2, 233-239.
Cheng, W., Warren, M., & Xu X. F. (2003). The language learner as language researcher: Putting corpus linguistics on the timetable. System, 31/2, 173-186.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2002). The intonation of declarative-mood questions in a corpus of Hong Kong English: // æä beef ball // à you like //. Teanga: Journal of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics. Special Issue of Corpora, Varieties and the Language Classroom, 21, 151-165.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2001). The functions of actually in a corpus of intercultural conversations. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 6/2, 257-280.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2001). "She knows more about Hong Kong than you do isn't it": Tags in Hong Kong conversational English. Journal of Pragmatics, 33/9, 1419-1439.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2001). The use of vague language in intercultural conversations in Hong Kong. English World-Wide, 22/1, 81-104.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2000). Making a difference: Using peers to assess individual students' contributions to a group project. Teaching in Higher Education, 5/2, 243-255.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2000). The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English: Language learning through language description. In L. Burnard, & T. McEnery (Eds.), Rethinking language pedagogy from a corpus perspective (pp. 133-144). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Cheng, W. (1999). Constructing and negotiating ideologies of race and ethnicity in intercultural conversations. Anglistica, English and the Other, 3/1, 15-31.
Cheng, W. and Warren, M. (1999). Inexplicitness: What is it and should we be teaching it? Applied Linguistics, 20/3, 293-315.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (1999). Peer and teacher assessment of the oral and written tasks of a group project. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 24/3, 301-314.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (1999). Facilitating a description of intercultural conversations: The Hong Kong Corpus of Conversational English. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) Journal, 20, 5-20.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (1997). Having second thoughts: Student perceptions before and after a peer assessment exercise. Studies in Higher Education, 22/2, 233-239.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (1996). Hong Kong students' attitudes towards peer assessment in English language courses. Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, 6, 61-75.
Conference Proceedings and Working Papers
Cheng, W. (2014). Metaphors in financial analyst reports. 4th CELC Symposium Proceedings, 31-35. http://www.nus.edu.sg/celc/research/symposiumproceedings.php
Cheng, W. (2013). Writing across the Curriculum: Raising students' general and discipline-specific English language proficiency. In Y. N. Leung, W. T. Lee, & S. Y. Hwang (Eds.), Collection of papers from the invited speakers and winners of paper awards (pp. 16-28). 2013 International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching, National Ilan University and the English Teachers' Association-Republic of China, Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 8-10 November 2013.
Cheng, W. (2011). Company brochures: The self and the other in semantic categories. An International Workshop on Linguistics of BA and The 11th Korea-Japan Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 10-11 December 2011. http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/documents-for-2011-12-10-11/PrePrint-WinnieCheng.pdf
Cheng, W. (2011). Legislative bilingualization in Hong Kong: A case study of Domestic and Cohabitation Relationships Violence Ordinance. In L. Li, L. Cheng, L. J. Sha, L. Thomas, & L. Sun (Eds), Proceedings of The First International Conference on Law, Translation and Culture: Advances in Law and Languages (pp. 19-25). Georgia: The American Scholars Press. (ISBN 978-0-9845209-7-8) (CPCI-SSH)
Cheng, L., & Cheng, W. (2010). Language modeling for legal proof. In X. G. Jin, Y. G. Liu, T. R. Li, & D. Ruan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2010), (pp. 533-537), Hangzhou, China, 15-16 November 2010. Beijing, China: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (ISBN: 978-1-4244-6790-7) (EI & ISTP)
Cheng, W. (2009). Using a specialized corpus of Engineering English for ESP practice. In Robertson, P., Nunn, R. and Huang, P. (Eds.), 1st Asian ESP Conference Proceedings, Chongqing University, China, 29-31 October 2009 (pp. 43-57). Australia: Time Taylor International Ltd. ISSN 1833-2994. http://www.asian-esp-journal.com/article_index.php
Cheng, W. (2009). Hong Kong Engineering Corpus: Towards the computer-assisted investigation of English phraseology. The First International Conference on Utility Management and Safety Abstracts and Full Papers (pp. 32-38). Hong Kong, 1-4 March 2009.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2005). Online learning taxonomy for collaborative assessment. Assessment Resource Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, http://arc.dg21.com/forms/directory.php?directory_id=14.
Cheng, W. (2004). Lexical cohesion across turns in a corpus of spoken English. Proceedings of the sixth TALC (Teaching and Language Corpora Conference) Conference (pp. 21-22). Department of English and German Languages, University of Granada, Spain, 6-9 July 2004.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2003). The use of intonation to assert dominance and control across different genres. Eighth International Symposium on Social Communication, Discourse & Dialog, 2, 1325-1330. Centre for Applied Linguistics, Santiago de Cuba, 20-24 January 2003.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2003). The television game show: An analysis of the potential problems of importing social communication from another culture. Eighth International Symposium on Social Communication, Discourse & Dialog, 2, 814-818. Centre for Applied Linguistics, Santiago de Cuba, 20-24 January 2003.
Cheng, W., Setter, J., & Warren, M. (2002). Obviously and overseas: some (mis)interpretations of Hong Kong Chinese listening to native speakers of English. In A. James & J. Leather (Eds.), new sounds 2000. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech (pp. 58-66). University of Amsterdam, September 2000. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: University of Klagenfurt.
Cheng, W. (2001). Jocular interactions in intercultural conversations. The First Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics: Perspectives for the 21st Century (pp. 728-736). Seoul, Korea June 9-10, 2001.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2001). "and then some hot one": Manifestations of imprecision and non-specificity in conversations. The First Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics: Perspectives for the 21st Century (pp. 768-780). Seoul, Korea, June 9-10, 2001.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2000). The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English: Analyzing and describing spoken intercultural discourses. AILA '99 Conference Proceedings. Tokyo University, Japan, CD-Rom 3.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2000). Using a corpus of intercultural spoken English as a learning and teaching resource: The case of the discourse marker well. Proceedings of the '98 International Conference on Teaching English at Tertiary Level in the Chinese Context (pp. 374-391).
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (2000). A corpus-driven approach to learning spoken academic, business and social English. 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, AILA '99 Toyko, Japan. CD-ROM, Disc 3.
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (1998). Exploiting the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English for research, learning and teaching Purposes. Proceedings of Teaching and Language Corpora 98 (pp. 205-212). Keble College, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
Cheng, W. (1998). Learning how and when to speak indirectly. Proceedings of Teaching and Language Corpora 98 (pp. 33-41). Keble College, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
Cheng, W., Warren, M., Bradshaw, J., Greaves, C., Pellowe, J., & Setter, J. (1996/97). Compiling a Hong Kong corpus of conversational English. HKPU Working Papers in ELT and Applied Linguistics, 2(2), 1-20.
Cheng, W., Warren, M., Bradshaw, J., Greaves, C., Pellowe, J., & Setter, J. (1996). A corpus-based study of the conversational English of non-native speakers in Hong Kong. Annual Report of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University 1996. (Research project selected to represent the Department of English)
Cheng, W., & Warren, M. (1996). Peer assessment in English language teaching. Selected Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Thai TESOL Convention "Voices of Practice", 9(1), 5-6.
Cheng, W. (1995). Enhancing quality: Evaluation of core English modules. HKPU Working Papers in ELT and Applied Linguistics, 1(2), 21-32.
Invited Plenary/Keynote Papers Presented at International Conferences/Workshops
Cheng, W. (2018). Creating and exploring Corpus of Journal Articles 2014. ESP in Tertiary Education in a New Era: Opportunities and Challenges. The 2nd Annual Conference of the Asian Association for ESP & the 7th National Conference of the Chinese Association for ESP in China, Southeast University, China, 2-4 November 2018.
Cheng, W. (2018). A corpus study of (im)politeness: The Hong Kong Corpus of Corruption Prevention. The Symposium on (Im)politeness and Identity, Nanjing University, China, 19-21 November 2018.
Cheng, W. (2018). Corpus linguistic approaches to critical discourse analysis. The Fourth International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies, 2018 (ICLLS, 2018). Hosted by Chartered Institute of Linguists Hong Kong Society, and co-organised by the School of Education and Languages, the Open University of Hong Kong; School of General Education and Languages, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong; the Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Shue Yan University; the School of Humanities and Languages, the Caritas Institute of Higher Education. Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Chai Wan, Hong Kong), 15–16 June 2018.
Cheng, W. (2017). Researching and teaching professional communication: Insights from Hong Kong. The 1st International Conference on Business Linguistics and Intercultural Business Communication, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, 18-19 November 2017.
Cheng, W. (2017). Editorial stances of commercial and government news: The 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election. Meaning, Context & Cognition, University of Łódź, Poland, 20-22 April 2017.
Cheng, W. (2017). Professional communication studies: Student assessment'. 15th Annual TESOL International Conference, Convergence in TESOL. Site Skills Training Campus, Clark, Pampanga, Philippines, 7-9 April 2017.
Cheng, W. (2016). The rule of law in Hong Kong: Metaphorical structures in local media coverage. The 2nd International Conference on Literature and Linguistics (ICOLL), International Economics Development and Research Center (IEDRC), Rome, Italy, 14-16 July 2016.
Cheng, W. (2016). Discursive competence of professionals in Hong Kong. Epoch Making in English Language Teaching and Learning: Evolution, Renovation and Revolution, 2016 PAC/25th International Symposium, ETA-ROC and Takming University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 11-13 November 2016.
Cheng, W. (2016). The local grammar approach: What and how? Epoch Making in English Language Teaching and Learning: Evolution, Renovation and Revolution, 2016 PAC/25th International Symposium, ETA-ROC and Takming University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 11-13 November 2016.
Cheng, W. (2016). Data-driven approach to learning and teaching reporting verbs in research articles. ELT unlimited. Language Institute of Thammasat University and Chulalongkorn University Language Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, 6-7 October 2016.
Cheng, W. (2016). Asia as method in TESOL: Teaching & Learning English in Indonesia. Asia as Teaching & Learning English in Indonesia – Future Trends and Approaches, The Grand Inaugural TESOL Indonesia Conference on English Language Teaching, University of Mataram, Lombok, Indonesia, 11-13 August 2016.
Cheng, W. (2016). Negotiation and construction of social identities and professional identities: Lived experiences of women in TESOL. Women in TESOL. Site Skills Training, Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga, Philippines, 11-12 March 2016.
Cheng, W. (2016). English Communication for Hospitality and Tourism Management: Curriculum development, implementation and evaluation. The International Symposium: Preparing students for communication in East Asia, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 8 March 2016.
Cheng, W. (2015). Teaching interpersonal meaning in workplace communication. Moving Higher Education Closer to the Industry, 2015 International ESP Conference, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, 23-24 October 2015.
Cheng, W. (2015). Discourse and management, discourse management and managing discourse: ESP research and instruction. ESP in Asia: Retrospect and Prospect, The 4thNational Conference of the Chinese Association for ESP & The 7th International Conference on ESP in Asia. China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong, China, 25-27 September 2015.
Cheng, W. (2015). Learning English through Workplace Communication: The teaching of interpersonal communication. Teaching TESOL in Changing Times, Learning English in a New Age, 14th Annual International Conference, 2015 TESOL Asia/Asian EFL Journal. Site Skills Training, Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga, Philippines, 21-23 August 2015.
Cheng, W. (2015). Empowering discipline teachers: How to improve university students' EAP competence. Eyes on writing: Discovering creativity across the curriculum. The 3rd Writing Roundtable. English Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 15 May 2015.
Cheng, M. (2015). Data-driven learning for writing for research publication for students. 2015 International Conference on English Education (ICEE). Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan, 25-26 April 2015.
Cheng, W. (2014). English Language curriculum and assessment: The Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education. 11th Asian EFL Journal International TESOL Conference 2014, Site Skills Training Clark Freeport Zone Pampanga, Philippines, 28-29 November 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). A corpus-driven study of the language of hotel websites: Semantic fields and phraseology. Conference on Corpus Linguistics and ESP 2014. Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an Shaanxi, China, 18-19 October 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). Collaborative projects with key industries: Sharing of Hong Kong experience. Uniqueness and diversity in ESP research and pedagogy. Cross-Straits International Conference on English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan, 3-5 October, 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). Globalization: Challenges and perspectives in behavioural and social science research, 2nd International Conference on Behavioural & Social Science Research, co-organised by Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and Western Social Science Association, , Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, 5-8 August 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). Hotels' evaluation of products and services: A comparison of hotel homepages across different star categories. Professional communication in the international world: Theory and practice. The 4th International Conference of the Asian-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association and The 3rd National Conference of the Chinese Association for ESP, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, 7-8 June 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). Strategies for effective journal article reading: Hospitality and Tourism Management. ESP Practice, Innovation, and Vision, 2014 International Conference on Applied Foreign Languages (2014-ICAFLs), National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Taiwan, 23 May 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). A local grammar-based approach to corpus studies. The 16th Korea-Japan Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing. Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, 9-10 May 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). Approaches and methods: ESP research and teaching. The International Symposium on Innovative Teaching and Research in ESP 2014. University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, 22 February 2014.
Cheng, W. (2013). (Re)searching the Corpus of Research Articles for discipline- and genre-specific language (Workshop). 2013 International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching, National Ilan University and the English Teachers' Association-Republic of China, Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 8-10 November 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Writing across the Curriculum: Raising students' general and discipline-specific English language proficiency. 2013 International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching, National Ilan University and the English Teachers' Association-Republic of China, Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 8-10 November 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Why are we concerned about university student writing?: Writing in English across the curriculum. ESP in the context of the Internationalisation of Higher Education and Economic Globalisation. The 2nd International Conference of the Chinese Association for ESP & the 5th International Conference on ESP in Asia. Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 27-29 September 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Pragmatic performance and competence: Comparing English language textbooks and business and public discourse. The 13th China National Pragmatics Conference. Zhejiang International Studies University, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, 20-23 July 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Economy is organism: Metaphor use in financial analyst reports. English Linguistics: Past, Present and Future. International Conference on English Linguistics, English Linguistic Society of Korea (ELSOK & ICEL 2013). Korea University and Korea Military Academy, Seoul, Korea, 3-6 July 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Learning and teaching speech acts: Combining pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Pragmatics on the go – Teaching and learning about pragmatics: principles, methods and practices, Padua, Italy, 17-19 June 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Writing in English across the curriculum: Partnerships with multi-disciplines. Alternative pedagogies in the English language & communication classroom. The 4th International Symposium, Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 27-29 May 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Corpus linguistic studies of professional communication: Metaphors in financial analyst reports. Alternative pedagogies in the English language & communication classroom. The 4th International Symposium, Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), University Town, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 27-29 May 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Multimodal analysis of hotel homepages: A comparison of hotel websites across different star categories. Greeting the New Age of ESP: Practice, Innovation, and Vision, International Conference on Applied Foreign Languages, Department of Applied English, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Taiwan and Research Centre for Professional Communication in English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 23-24 May 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Comparing the use of metaphors in government and media corpora: The Hong Kong Policy Addresses. The 13th Korea-Japan Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing. Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, 8-9 March 2013.
Cheng, W. (2012). The use of English in the professional workplace: Case studies in key industries in Hong Kong. The 4th Malaysian International Conference on Academic Strategies in English Language Teaching (My_CASELT), 27-28 November 2012, MARA University of Technology, Malaysia.
Cheng, W. (2012). Hospitality competence: Learning from ESP research methodologies and findings. 2012 ESP Seminar and Panel Discussion. Department of Applied English, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 8-9 November 2012. (Sponsored by Ministry of Education, Taiwan)
Cheng, W. (2012). A corpus-based genre study of About Us: Comparing corporations in Finland and Hong Kong. 2012 ESP Seminar and Panel Discussion. Department of Applied English, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 8-9 November 2012. (Sponsored by Ministry of Education, Taiwan)
Cheng, W. (2012). A comparative study of metaphors of emotion in financial analyst reports in Europe and Hong Kong. Language and Communication in the Workplace: An International Conference on the Use of Language for Communication in Different Professions. English Department, Faculty of Letters and Arts, Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia, 11-12 September 2012.
Cheng, W., & Cheng, L. (2012). Epistemic modality and evidential modals in law: A corpus-based comparison of civil judgments in Hong Kong and Scotland. Stance Workshop. Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 7-9 May 2012.
Cheng, W. (2012). Approaches and methods in ESP research: Studies of company brochures and nurse-patient interactions. The 2012 International Symposium on English Professional Communication and Instructional Technology, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 5 May 2012.
Cheng, W. (2012). The local grammars of phraseological variations. Kyung-Waseda Workshop, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, 24 March 2012.
Cheng, W. (2011). Company brochures: The self and the other in semantic categories. An International Workshop on Linguistics of BA and The 11th Korea-Japan Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 10-11 December 2011.
Cheng, W. (2011). Combining corpus linguistics and critical genre analysis: Studies of specialised and professional genres. International conference on Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres, Modena, Italy, 24-26 November 2011.
Cheng, W. (2011). Using ConcGram. PhD Workshop on Corpus, Discourse and Genre studies on Language Change: Work in progress. Pre-conference Workshop, International conference on Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres, Modena, Italy, 24-26 November 2011.
Cheng, W. (2011). Legislative bilingualization in Hong Kong: A case study of Domestic and Cohabitation Relationships Violence Ordinance. International Conference on Law, Translation, and Culture 2011. School of Foreign Languages, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China, 28-30 August 2011. (Co-organisers: Research Centre for Legal Translation, China University of Political Science and Law, Research Centre for Professional Communication in English, and Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale)
Cheng, W. (2011). Linguist expert witness in Hong Kong. The 1st International Conference of Law, Language and Discourse. Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, 20-21 August 2011. (Sponsor: Research Centre for Professional Communication in English) (I-ZV7D) (with Cheng Le)
Cheng, W. (2011). What can I do with a corpus? 14th Warwick International Postgraduate Conference in Applied Linguistics, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, 29 June 2011.
Cheng, W. (2011). Nurse-client consultations in the Mobile Integrative Health Centre in Hong Kong. 14th Warwick International Postgraduate Conference in Applied Linguistics, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, 30 June 2011.
Cheng, W. (2011). Corpus linguistics for professional communication: Systematic analysis of phraseological variation and specificity of texts, genres and English professional corpora. The 2011 International Conference on English Professional Communication and Instructional Technology, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 6 May 2011.
Cheng, W. (2011). Enhancing discursive processes and products: Research-based descriptions of professional communicative competencies. The 17th International TESOL Arabia Conference: Rethinking English language teaching, attitudes, approaches and perspectives, J. W. Marriott Hotel, Dubai, UAE, 10-12 March 2011. (Sponsored by Emirates College for Advanced Education)
Cheng, W. (2011). Student leadership and effectiveness: The case of data-driven learning. Professional Development and Certificate Course, The 17th International TESOL Arabia Conference: Rethinking English language teaching, attitudes, approaches and perspectives, J. W. Marriott Hotel, Dubai, UAE, 10-12 March 2011. (Sponsored by Emirates College for Advanced Education)
Cheng, W. (2010). An ecology of practice: Research Centre for Professional Communication in English, Engaging Ecologies, Engaging Empowerment, The Second ESP in Asia Conference, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, 11-13 November 2010.
Cheng, W. (2010). Assessment of communicative competencies of professionals in engineering in Hong Kong. LSP and Professional Communication: Collaboration and engagement, Second Conference of the Asia-Pacific Rim LSP and Professional Communication: Collaboration and Engagement, 15-17 July 2010, Selangor, Malaysia.
Cheng, W. (2010). Appliable corpus linguistics. The Fifth Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Group International Conference 2010: Connecting Corpus Linguistics. University of Edinburgh, UK, 18-19 June 2010.
Cheng, W. (2010). Teaching Professional English and Communication. Second International Symposium on English Language and Literature Teaching. Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, 1 May 2010.
Cheng, W. (2010). Research developments in professional communication in English. The 2010 International Conference on English Teaching. Department of Applied Foreign Languages, National Kaohsuing University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan, 30 April 2010.
Cheng, W. (2009). Using a Specialised Corpus of Engineering English for ESP Practices, The First Asian ESP Conference, Chongqing University, China, 29-31 October 2009.
Cheng, W. (2009). Promoting ESP learning, teaching and research through collaboration across disciplines and professions. English for Specific Purposes (ESP): Through and Across Disciplines. International Conference on English Education, 25-26 April 2009, Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Cheng, W. (2009). Corpus-driven language learning: What did Hong Kong undergraduate students investigate? Invited panel discussion on 'English Learner Corpus: Global Perspectives with an Asian Focus' (Moderator: Chu-Ren Huang; Panelists: Winnie Cheng, Hintat Cheung, Yasunari Harada, Herriette Hendriks, Huaqing Hong, Yukio Tono). 2009 LTTC International Conference on English Language Teaching and Learning, 6-7 March 2009, The Language Training & Testing Center (LTTC), National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Cheng, W. (2008). Empowering independent learners: Hong Kong Professional Corpora. Texturing ELT for New World Realities, The Malaysian International Conference on Academic Strategies in English Language Teaching (My_CASELT), 29-31 October 2008, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
Cheng, W. (2007). Round Table Chair: Corpus linguistics and ELT: Are we getting there? 1st International Conference on Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT. Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain, 6-8 November 2007.
Cheng, W. (2007). Comparing simultaneous talk in Hong Kong school textbooks and Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English. Redesigning Pedagogy: Culture, Knowledge and Understanding, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice Conference 2007. National Institute of Education, Singapore, 28-30 May 2007.
Cheng, W. (2004). Lexical cohesion across turns in a corpus of spoken English. Plenary Colloquium: Corpora, lexical cohesion and language learning. The Sixth International Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TALC 2004), Department of English and German Languages, University of Granada, Spain, 6-9 July 2004.
Grundy, P., & Cheng, W. (2004). Thinking for writing: A neo-Gricean take on writing across cultures. The Second Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, University of Seville, Spain, 26-28 May 2004.
Cheng, W. (2003). // → well THANK you DAvid for // → THAT question//: The intonation, pragmatics and structure of Q&A sessions in public discourses. 'TEFL in Asia: Emerging issues', 1st Asia TEFL International Conference. Hotel Nongshim, Busan, South Korea, 7-9 November 2003.
Invited Papers and Workshops at International and Local Universities
Cheng, W. (2017). Workshop on English for Specific Purposes: Teaching and Research, Higher English Education Publishing, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, 24-25 June 2017 (Three 1.5-hour talks: Scope of ESP and needs analysis, Online ESP teaching and learning, and Corpus-driven ESP research and writing for publication)
Cheng, W. (2016). Data-driven learning for writing for research publication for students. Ningbo University, 24 March 2016.
Cheng, W. (2016). An evaluation of the teaching of interpersonal meaning in textbooks for 'Learning English through workplace communication' in Hong Kong. Ningbo Institute of Technology, 25 March 2016.
Cheng, W. (2014). Corpus of Research Articles: Phraseological and genre analysis. Foreign Languages, Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi Xi'an, China, 20 October 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). (Re)searching the Corpus of Research Articles for discipline- and genre-specific language. EDC workshop, PolyU, 13 October 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). Programme learning outcomes assessment plan: Why and how?. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, 12 September 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). Corpus of Research Articles: Research article writing and publishing. Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and Western Social Science Association, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, 7-8 August 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). How to do textual analysis. Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and Western Social Science Association, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, 7-8 August 2014.
Cheng, W. (2014). Ten ideas for EAP and ESP reading and writing. Workshop for Korea National Diplomatic Academy. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 28 January 2014.
Cheng, W. (2013). Making sense of phraseological variation: Concgrams in Corpus of Research Articles. Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Takming University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 8 November 2013.
Lam, P., Cheng, W., & Kong, K.C.C. (2013). Learning English through workplace communication: An evaluation of existing resources in Hong Kong. Lecture Series and Panel Discussion on English Language Teaching & Learning, Department of Foreign
Languages and Literature & Language Centre, National Ilan University and Department of Applied Foreign languages, Lan Yang Institute of Technology, Taiwan, 7 November 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Pragmatic competence: Teaching and learning speech acts. Lecture Series and Panel Discussion on English Language Teaching & Learning, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature & Language Centre, National Ilan University and Department of Applied Foreign languages, Lan Yang Institute of Technology, Taiwan, 7 November 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Teaching (and learning) and researching into Pragmatics: Approaches and methodologies. The 13th China National Pragmatics Conference. Zhejiang International Studies University, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, 20-23 July 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). Activity types in the Mobile Integrative Health Centre (MIHC) in Hong Kong. Research seminar, Department of English, Culture and Communication, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, 17 April 2013.
Cheng, W. (2013). The use of English in the professional workplace: Case studies in key industries in Hong Kong. School of English, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, 25 March 2013. (B-Q11M)
Cheng, W. (2012). Using teaching assistants to support and enhance learning and teaching. (Facilitator), Educational Development Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 10 Dec 2012.
Cheng, W. (2012). Workshop: From research to publication: A critical genre study of journal papers. English Department, Faculty of Letters and Arts, Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia, 13 September 2012.
Cheng, W. (2012). Workshop: Writing for publication. English Department, Faculty of Letters and Arts, Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia, 14 September 2012.
Cheng, W. (2012). Roundtable on publishing: Best practices. Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University and Wiley-Blackwell, 27 June 2012.
Cheng, W., Kong, K., & Lam, P. (2012). Learning English through Workplace Communication: An evaluation of existing resources in Hong Kong. Departmental seminar, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, 30 April 2012.
Cheng, W. (2012). Research methods of survey and ethnography: Professional communication in English and Chinese in Hong Kong. Department of Communication, School of Economics, Aalto University, Finland, 24 April 2012. (1-ZV7Z)
Cheng, W. (2012). Corpus Linguistics in ESP Research. Department of Communication, School of Economics, Aalto University, Finland, 20 April 2012. (B-Q11N)
Cheng, W. (2012). Professional English research: Multiple approaches and methods. Department of Communication, School of Economics, Aalto University, Finland, 19 April 2012. (G-U838)
Cheng, W. (2012). The local grammars of phraseological variations. Kyung-Waseda Workshop, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, 24 March 2012. (B-Q11N)
Cheng, W. (2012). Corpus analysis of phraseologies. High Table Dinner, Society of the English Language and Literature Department. Shue Yan University, 21 March 2012. (B- Q11N)
Cheng, W. (2011). Company brochures: The self and the other in semantic categories. An International Workshop on Linguistics of BA and The 11th Korea-Japan Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 10-11 December 2011. (B-Q11N)
Cheng, W. (2011). Assessment of communicative competence of professionals in engineering. School of English for International Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 18 October 2011. (I-99FF)
Cheng, W. (2011). Corpus linguistics for professional communication in English: Systematic analysis of phraseological variation specific to texts, genres and corpora. School of English for International Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 18 October 2011. (5459/08H, B-Q11N)
Cheng, W. (2011). Gender Communication: Nurse-client interactions in the Mobile Integrative Health Centre. Gender and Language Workshop, Peking University, Beijing, China, 14-16 October 2011. (1-ZV7Z)
Cheng, W., & Qian, D. (2011). Excellence in work-integrated education: Evaluation evidence for achievement of learning outcomes. Paper presented at the FLTC Symposium, Faculty of Humanities, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, June 7, 2011, Hong Kong. (8B1V)
Cheng, W. (2011). Correcting others and self-correction in business and professional discourse and textbooks. Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 25 May 2011.
Cheng, W. (2011). Radiation soars in sea off nuclear crisis plant: A cross-cultural corpus study of online news reports on earthquake, tsunami, and radiation in Japan. Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, 22 April 2011. (B-Q11N)
Cheng, W. (2011). A corpus-based critical discourse analytical study: Western Perceptions of Hong Kong ten years on, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, 23 April 2011. (G-U542)
Cheng, W. (2010). 'sorry er one hundred': Other-repair and self-repair strategies in English language textbooks and professional English corpus in Hong Kong. School of Foreign Language Studies, Ningbo Institute of Technology Zhejiang University (NIT), 10 November 2010.
Cheng, W. (2010). Multiple perspectives: Research and teaching professional communication in English. Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, 14 July 2010. (B-Q11N, PolyU5459/08H)
Cheng, W. (2010). Discussant. Gender and Language Workshop: Language, Gender, and Sexuality: Recent Developments and Future Directions. Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 12-13 March 2010.
Cheng, W. (2009). Researching into Professional Communicative Competencies: Four key industries of Hong Kong's economy. University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, 18 December 2009. (87S1)
Cheng, W. (2009). Using the corpus approach to analysing professional discourse: Corpus data analyses. University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, 18 December 2009. (87S1)
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Cheng, W. (2009). The discourse flows of the professionals in today's globalised world. Language and Culture: Creating and Fostering Global Communities. School of Language Studies and Linguistics, The National University of Malaysia, 5-6 May 2009. (B-Q02J)
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Cheng, W. (2007). Intercultural pragmatics: Comparing textbooks and a corpus of spoken English in Hong Kong. New perspectives in interlanguage pragmatics: Theoretical groundings and methodological innovations. Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain, 8-9 November 2007.
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Cheng, W. (2007). Research meeting with LAELA (Linguistica Aplicada a l'Ensenyament de la Llengua Anglesa) research group. Universitat Jaume I Castelló, Spain, 9 November 2007.
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The last time I saw Carl Barat, he was still playing a rock star. Dirty Pretty Things' final gig brought down the curtain on a part he played exceptionally well. A year on from their demise, out in the wilds of west London, Neil Sheppeck's production of Sam Shepherd's Fool for Love sees Barat audition for a different role. He's always been a performer, with the Libertines' and DPT's gang mentality a fairly transparent protection against chronic insecurity and fear of isolation. There's a similar protection afforded by having a part to play – a costume to wear and a script to follow which relieves the worry about being judged on your own merits. Doing so for a living seems a logical if precarious next step.


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I ordered another Sanctuary bus since the number of kids had grown. With Tony, Aaron, and utilizing Murray, I had enough drivers for four buses. The rest of the week was occupied with spending time with the kids, ordering shoes, shorts, t-shirts, hats, swim suits, and a nice change of clothes for the evening for our vacation. My mom came in with one of the seamstresses to measure the boys and check on their sizes. Some of the kids who have grown could pass their clothes down the line. I had Lester come and measure for sneakers. All of this going on, none of the kids asked why.
Tony had finally obtained a place where we could take the kids. What started as seven days ended up being ten days. The island had a large guest house surrounded by cabins that slept 4. It couldn't have been better. We would fly to an airport close to the island and then take a boat to the island. I asked Murray and O'Shea if they would like to go as security. They asked if they could take their wives, which I agreed to as long, they wouldn't mind helping Mario with the cooking. Abe said he would stay since there would be a lot of construction going on.
Mom ordered the new clothes; she coordinated with Lester and had new sneakers for each child. Based on the waist size, she had bought a bathing suit for them as well. She also bought each child a new suitcase for their clothes. I told her when the plane was leaving so she could meet us there with their luggage. All that was left was for Tony, Aaron, and me to pack. The night before we were to leave, I had our luggage put into the bus's baggage carrier. Murray and O'Shea brought their luggage over as well. In the morning at breakfast, I told the kids we're going on a trip, and I'd appreciate them dressing nicely and meet me at the buses in 30 minutes. I don't think the dining hall emptied so fast. I already had spoken to Mrs. Jenkins and Mrs. Chester, giving everyone a paid vacation. I called my security company and arranged for 24-hour security while we were gone.
As soon as I saw the kids coming, I started my bus. Tony and Aaron followed suit. When Murray and O'Shea arrived, they introduced their wives to Tony, Aaron, and I. Murray started his bus, the kids boarded the buses in a very orderly manner. Of course, Bubba and Pat wanted to know where we were going. I just kept telling them it's a surprise. It wasn't long before we approached the airport entrance for private planes.
I looked into the mirror, and the expressions on the kid's faces were priceless. An officer who was a friend of Murray's directed us to a hangar where we would leave the buses. As I got off the bus, the Officer indicated where our plane was parked, and when I looked, I saw my mom with a dolly loaded with suitcases. As the kids got out of the buses, "I want you all to stay together. Follow me to where my mother is standing."
They walked as if they were zombies. No emotions and what I suspect maybe a little scared. When we approached my mom, I called Beth to come forward. "Beth, we're going on a 10-day vacation. I need you to call each kid, give them their suitcase, and tell them to board the plane. Tony and Aaron are there to help them."
The boarding went very smoothly. The kids still looked at all of this as it was a dream. Once everyone was on board, "We'll be going to an island where we'll stay for ten days. You can swim, fish or just lay around in the sun. Now I'd like you to buckle your belt and get ready to fly away on holiday."
It's always interesting to watch the kids on their first plane ride. But the fun wasn't over yet. They still had a boat ride coming up.
After we got at cruising altitude, the cabin crew offered milk, juice, and water, along with a snack box that contains a small sandwich, some cookies, and a small bag of peanuts. They turned down the lights and, dropping a screen, started a movie. I had preselected a funny movie to get them relaxed and in a happy mood. I could hear their laughter from where I sat. I looked at Tony and Aaron, and they were enjoying themselves as well. About an hour before landing, the kids were offered another snack pack, only this time there was a large sandwich, a piece of fruit, and a bag of peanuts. They gave the kids a choice of juice, milk, or water. This took their mind off of the landing process. There was a little gasp as we touched down, but there was a lot of laughter also. "Please stay in your seats till we turn off the seat belt sign."
When the plane stopped, Tony went upfront. As soon as the buses were here, he told us we could deplane. The kids got their suitcases and walked down the flight stairs. Tony met them and guided them to the right bus. Once everyone was on the buses, Bubba and Pat made it so they would sit close to me. "Dad, where are we going?"
"For a boat ride"
I think not telling the kids would be a bigger surprise, and evidently, I thought correctly. If I told you that 253 kids could keep quiet and behave like little angels, you'd never believe it. But that's exactly as it happened. When we got to the boat dock, Tony had arranged for three boats to take us to the island. In an orderly file, the kids boarded the boats. Murray, his wife, and Aaron went on the first boat. The second boat was O'Shea, and his wife and I went on the third boat along with Bubba and Pat. "Dad, where are we, and what's this all about?"
"We're going to an island for ten days. This is the promise vacation that I made a while back. You guys can swim, fish, explore, and have a good time. Forget about everything and be a kid again. I know that's what I'm going to do."
You could see the smiles on the kids' faces as we neared the docks. One of the boats would stay here to give the older kids a chance to do some deep-sea fishing. The younger kids could fish off the dock, which I'd do. There were smiles in every direction we looked. Since Tony had made the arrangements, he had the layout of the island. He decided where the kids would stay. The main building would house the girls and Murray and O'Shea's wives. The boys and the other men were assigned to the cottages. Once everyone was settled in, they all met at the beach in their swim gear. One of the boats came back with two swimming instructors and two more security personal. Tony met them and confirmed their names. Walking over to the other adults, Tony introduced them to us. "I'm glad to meet you, and I hope this becomes a vacation for you as well."
I watched the kids play on the beach. Some of them ventured into the water, those that could swim did, the others just frolicked in the small waves as they hit the beach. It wasn't too long before the excitement of the trip, the water, and the smell of the sea caught up to them. You could see that they were tired.
"I think we should go and take a nap before dinner. You'll all need to take a shower to wash off the sand before lying down. We should walk around the island to ensure there's no way for someone to land here without us knowing. Murray, you and O'Shea stay here, one of the security men will come with me, and the other will go with Tony. Will head in opposite directions, and let's see what we'll find."
We left, and after walking about a mile, we met together at the exact opposite end of where we started. Noting that it'd be difficult for someone to sneak onto the island, particularly from this coast, we walked back toward the camping area.
Brilliant chapter. The kids are really gonna enjoy there first ever vacation, oh the adults will probably have a good time as well.
Yes, they all are. For the kids, a plane ride and a boat ride all in one day.
JeffreyL 7,996
Lucky kids! I think a beach is probably my favorite place to vacation! Add in a plane ride and a boat ride, and I am certain most of the kids have had an amazing first time adventure! Thanks.
46 minutes ago, JeffreyL said:
You are welcome. Yes, I envy them for having such a vacation. Brad and Company have done a great job. The kids will never forget this vacation.
They will definitely remember this vacation. You said you wrote this years ago was this before 9/11?I'm curious what arrangements Brad would have to do with passports etc.Even an private charter could have a lot of tape these days. Oh did Sandy go?
With the history of the kiddos being transported and not being told where they were going, I have to wonder if Brad keeping the trip a "secret" was in their best interest or raised their anxiety levels beyond measure. I would probably say the latter since the silence was mentioned.
16 minutes ago, weinerdog said:
I wrote this story after 911. I was working in Holland when 911 happened. But I wrote the story as I wished it happened. Therefore I did not get involved in the 911 resulting restrictions and procedures that now exist . Brad chartered the plane and I'm not sure if one would have got got through all of the current boarding procedures for a private jet .l When I was privileged to use a private jet, there wasn't any restrictions once I proved who I was.
14 minutes ago, Chris L said:
I'm not sure what Brad had in mind. I know when I took my children any where and didn't tell them, they had confidence in me that it would be fun and something they would enjoy. We would play a game, I was to give them a hint and they would guess. What Bread did would only work if the kids trusted him. Having Tony and the security detail, helped.
Awesome chapter, a seaside holiday that everyone will really see enjoy and remember for a very long time.
6 minutes ago, mikedup said:
Yes, I'm envious. How about you?
32 minutes ago, CLJobe said:
Absolutely envious 😊
27 minutes ago, mikedup said:
Ditto... I'll have a session with the hunky swimming instructors... I can swim but not that strong... Never been one for sunning myself, window shopping yes the talent available. Hell even as a little one I was window shopping the hunky daddies around me int he trunks.
I am totally envious here... My family were all miners and never had the opportunity to go abroad. A yearly trip to Skegness, with a week in a drafty caravan was as good as we got, but I remember everyone of them. Right down to mum loving to sit in the amusement arcade playing bingo which usually meant I stayed with her. now I know it was because her cancer was knocking her for six but as kids we never knew. Holidays were never the same when we lost her... Then they just stopped. These kids are, so lucky.
Cinnamon 58
I am fully enjoying this wonderful story and each morning one of my first activities Is reading the next installment. The love being expressed is incredible and the kids are blossoming. Brad is a visionary and Sanctuary effectively addresses the need of these vulnerable children.
However Brad is unemployed and whatever idea he has he is able to realize. What is the source of his finances?
41 minutes ago, Kev said:
I can relate to your story. We never had a vacation as a kid. The best we had was a day trip visiting relatives . My first vacation was after I graduated from college, and then it was a trip home. We share a lot, my mother also had cancer which finally claimed her life, but I was older when that occurred. My friends went on vacation and would talk about it. For some reason, I wasn't jealous. I had my books and they took me places
5 minutes ago, Cinnamon said:
Brad is a very fortunate young man. He has a trust fund that his parents set up for him. He has a college fund that he hasn't exhausted and funds from suing these men who have abused the young kids, go into Salvation accounts and the kids trust fund.
Paqman 788
Just wondering how many kids will be waiting at the gates when they get back. Anyone there if more turn up looking for sanctuary? Apart from Abe band security.
3 minutes ago, Paqman said:
There are guards there with instructions if a kid should show up.
Clancy59 826
On 1/13/2021 at 7:24 AM, Chris L said:
I agree, but they've also developed a sense of trust in Brad and the others to take care of them.

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Pertinacious Tom replied to Mid's topic in Political Anarchy
Instances? Doesn't that indicate that black lives don't always matter? Are black people Americans too? Regrettably, the answer to your question is yes. Just as with abortion and Trump's abuse of power, to name a couple of allegedly important issues, black lives may matter but gungrabbiness matters more, so when the two conflict, black lives don't matter. That's why the attacks here are not on NY's racist programs and laws, but on me for daring to say something bad about gungrabbing.
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Pertinacious Tom replied to Sean's topic in Political Anarchy
When considering the nincomcoup, as with every other political issue, it's important to recognize that I sometimes say bad things about TeamD gun bans and confiscation programs, so thanks for bringing that into the discussion.
That would be mindless ad hominems. Attacking Reason when I'm quoting black NY public defenders? Talk about clueless. Can't even get messenger-adjacent.
Actually, I've been quoting NY public defenders and black legal aid lawyers and yes, they are saying minorities have been targeted by stop and frisk. What they said, once again: Not sure what you think was false about my sentence. A century after the NY Times said there should be more stopping and frisking of Italians and Blacks, Bloomberg and (after Bloomberg's program was ruled unconstitutional) DeBlasio were both pursuing the same policy. Call it a lie if you want, but it's true. Yes, even if I use language that seems funny when Mel Brooks uses it in Blazing Saddles.
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Pertinacious Tom replied to badlatitude's topic in Political Anarchy
Colonial-era wives must have been remarkably understanding to allow all the practicing of military formations and gunfire inside their tiny homes. But that's the TeamD/gungrabby party line, so that must be accurate history.
Look away if you don't like racist history. And a century later, Bloomberg and DeBlasio still think that it's best to throw niggers and wops up against the wall and frisk them. But there's nothing racist about that because TeamD.
That's far from over. SCOTUS is currently considering the longstanding question of whether militias operated in the home only or not. I'm still in the outdoor militia camp on that one.
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Pertinacious Tom replied to Pertinacious Tom's topic in Political Anarchy
I agree with him but am not sure a blunt is the best way to illustrate a beneficial drug. Not a blunt guy myself, but isn't that kinda half cigar, half joint? NTTIAWWT, I've smoked has by mixing it in a tobacco cigarette. But that's smoking tobacco too, so kind of a mixed message on medical cannabis. I'm learning more than I'd care to about the many ways to use it as my brother's cancer progresses. There are patches and little syringes with extracts and edibles and even pre-rolled joints and various ways to use those and more I still don't know. And none of them come with tobacco.
More about voting and privacy rights, but you be you. You don't find that SCOTUS ruling upsetting? I figured you'd be another supporter of the Massachusetts view on that one.
I always said the 2nd is for muskets, The Massachusetts Supreme Court agreed with you but they were reversed by SCOTUS. I guess that's one of the reasons there's talk of packing the Supreme Court.
The Judicial Branch Needs More Sailors Really? They could tell which car had the stinky bud from a couple of cars back in traffic with a strong crosswind? They got a looting expert to say so and a couple of different judges to believe it, so I guess that's the way it is.
Authorizing Unitary Military Forever!
Strikes on U.S. Troops Show the Need To Withdraw From Iraq and Syria One of these days...
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Drug warriors continue the highway robbery I agree with the nutjobs as usual but they're probably going to lose this one. Fact is, those are not legal businesses at all. They're blatantly violating federal law, as are any businesses that further the criminal conspiracy, like this armored car company. That means the loot belongs to the government unless they can prove there was no crime. But there are LOTS of federal crimes going on every day across the country in every single cannabis business. You can't prove that's not happening. It is.
Of course, if you're rich and/or well-connected, you can avoid the felony charge for possession just by getting a license. But don't worry. If you look like a good stop and frisk target to the cops, I'm sure they will fairly judge your moral character and make the right choice, assuming you can afford the 400 bucks. That whole Black Lives Matter thing is just based on the silly notion that cops are racist, but they're obviously not when it comes to gun control.
The six examples above are not unusual at all. Possession of a gun is a violent felony in NY. So it's not just the gungrabby chorus here who assume that anyone who possesses a gun is a violent criminal, it's the state of the law in NY. But you can't be too harsh on people who think they can just possess a gun, so...


Normally I would not inflict on National Post readers anything about the vagaries of the U.S. justice system, but the harassments of my illustrious friend Mark Steyn, with whose brilliant writing most National Post readers would be familiar, are a legitimate news story, and they now have a personal aspect for me.
Many will remember that Mark set up a television comment and production business in Vermont a few years ago, with the controversial entrepreneur, Cary Katz. Katz made a substantial fortune lending money to university students, and collecting in, according to the admittedly suspect New York State attorney general, an allegedly predatory manner. He loaned out a total of US$19 billion, and did well in that business. He is also a professional poker player and pioneer in television poker. Katz is a television impresario and was the founder of CRTV — Conservative Review television — and the television network Poker Central. He is a major shareholder in both, although CRTV last year merged with Glenn Beck's TV outlet, The Blaze.
Notwithstanding his status as a large shareholder, Katz sued CRTV last year, for reasons I'll get to in a moment. Katz is in that numerous category of wealthy Americans who is notoriously very litigious. CRTV-Blaze is a conservative television and podcasting operation that includes among its better known American personalities Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, and for a time, Michelle Malkin (she quit and went elsewhere).
Mark Steyn entered the picture in the early days of CRTV in 2016 when Katz, after reportedly prolonged negotiation, arranged for Mark to host and jointly produce a mixed comment and cultural program near Mark's home in New Hampshire. People were engaged and the necessary equipment purchased and the arrangement was launched. But it shortly dissolved in shambles as Katz purported to fire Mark and shut down the operations and sue Mark for US$10 million claiming breach of contract. Mark is insusceptible to intimidation and no stranger to fierce litigation, and counter-sued Katz for breach of contract, won, and was awarded US$4 million.
In Katz's return to the American Arbitration Association for another go at breach of contract, he cited a regular "Songs of the Week" feature that Mark runs on his own, very popular website, claiming that Mark's selection of the three songs "Oh Happy Day," "We Are The Champions," and "Same Old Song and Dance" were all defamatory of Katz, who was not identified or mentioned in the references to these songs.
It is at this point that I proudly step into a cameo role in Katz's suit against Mark, though not a solo one. I am joined in the dock by two other gentlemen who have had the honour of introducing Mark at public functions. I shall not name them as they have not been identified in public filings, but one is a distinguished libertarian and the other is a talented African-American comedian and radio producer, who only mentioned Katz at all in an allusion to a nameless person. My transgression occurred while introducing Mark with the award as the first recipient of the George Jonas Freedom Award given by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. Mark earned the award as an elegant and fearless writer.
It was a double honour to be asked to present an award named after one dear friend to another. Mark Steyn is as formidable a litigant as a polemicist, and I have no doubt that he will prevail, even in so uncivilized a forum as the courts of the United States. His courage and integrity, no less than his virtuosity as a writer and public speaker, and constancy as a friend, have earned the homage of all.


In this 2011 photo released by the International Triathlon Union (ITU), elite female athletes dive into the Schwarzsee Lake for the start of their world championship swim.
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require "active_support/core_ext/object/blank"

module ActiveAttr
  module Typecasting
    # Typecasts an Object to true or false
    #
    # @example Usage
    #   BooleanTypecaster.new.call(1) #=> true
    #
    # @since 0.5.0
    class BooleanTypecaster
      # Values which force a false result for typecasting
      #
      # These values are based on the
      # {YAML language}[http://yaml.org/type/bool.html].
      #
      # @since 0.5.0
      FALSE_VALUES = ["n", "N", "no", "No", "NO", "false", "False", "FALSE", "off", "Off", "OFF", "f", "F"]

      # Typecasts an object to true or false
      #
      # Similar to ActiveRecord, when the attribute is a zero value or
      # is a string that represents false, typecasting returns false.
      # Otherwise typecasting just checks the presence of a value.
      #
      # @example Typecast a Fixnum
      #   typecaster.call(1) #=> true
      #
      # @param [Object] value The object to typecast
      #
      # @return [true, false] The result of typecasting
      #
      # @since 0.5.0
      def call(value)
        case value
        when *FALSE_VALUES then false
        when Numeric, /^\-?[0-9]/ then !value.to_f.zero?
        else value.present?
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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The Duplo 150C Booklet Making System uses a suction collator providing flexibility & productivity in a small footprint for short to mid volume jobs.
Small but perfectly formed, the Duplo DBM-150 is actually the world's smallest fully automatic booklet maker and trimmer. That doesn't mean it doesn't pack a punch though. It is compact yet has all the features of much bigger booklet systems, making it a great fit for both digital and offset printers.


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#pragma once

#include "../visualizationbase_api.h"

#include "../items/Item.h"
#include "LineStyle.h"

namespace Visualization {

class VISUALIZATIONBASE_API Line : public Super<Item> {
	ITEM_COMMON(Line)

	public:
		Line(Item* parent, const LineStyle* style = itemStyles().get());
		virtual bool sizeDependsOnParent() const override;

	protected:
		virtual void determineChildren() override;
		virtual void updateGeometry(int availableWidth, int availableHeight) override;
		virtual void paint(QPainter *painter, const QStyleOptionGraphicsItem *option, QWidget *widget) override;
};

} /* namespace Visualization */