Hans LADEGAARD (Fellow)
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Fields of Study:
Intercultural and Intergroup Communication, Language Attitudes and Stereotypes, Language and Gender, Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis, Narratives of Migration, Attitudes and Motivation in Foreign Language Learning
Profile:
Hans Ladegaard is Professor and Head of the Department of English at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Ladegaard's research interests in his own words:
"My broad areas of research interest are sociolinguistics, the social psychology of language, and intercultural communication. I am particularly interested in language attitudes and stereotypes, intergroup relationships, narratives of migration, language and gender, and discourse analysis. I am also interested in combining quantitative approaches to the study of language and communication (surveys and corpora) with qualitative approaches (discourse analysis and narratology), and to explore how research on language and intercultural communication can translate into social activism. My most recent research has focused on two thematically diverse areas: trauma storytelling in domestic migrant worker narratives, and international students’ experience of intergroup communication."
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