Key Research Areas
- Discourse and multimodal analysis
- Philosophy of language and meaning
- Feminist theory and second-wave feminism
- Language, music, and film studies
- Technology, education, and human experience
- Hermeneutics and continental philosophy
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Core Areas of Expertise
Mr. Lau's expertise lies at the intersection of applied linguistics and philosophy. His work integrates discourse analysis, multimodal and lyrical analysis, and continental philosophy to examine language, music, film, education, and technology, with particular attention to feminism, hermeneutics, and meaning-making in contemporary cultural contexts.
Recent Publications
Journal Article
- Lau, H. Y. (forthcoming). Comparative study of Cantonese-English code-mixing between A-not-A and pure A constructions in Yes/No interrogative gorms. Testing of Poplack's (1980) Code-Switching hypotheses on free morpheme constraint and equivalence constraint. Journal of Media and Communication Studies.
- Yip, W. C., Lau, H. Y., & Pang, K. C. (2025). Discursive Leadership in the Beatles' Lyrics: Positioning, Feminism, and the Cultural Management of Meaning" Discourses on Culture, vol. 24, no. 1, SAN University, 2025, pp. 223-257. https://doi.org/10.2478/doc-2025-0019
- Lau, H. Y. (2025). Comparative Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Functional Roles of Technology in Barbie 2023: Given Contexts of Feminism and Hegemonic Masculinity. Journal of Advanced Research in Women's Studies, 3(2), 57–82. https://doi.org/10.33422/jarws.v3i2.1114
- Lau, H. Y. (2024). Feminist audio-visual content analysis of the dancing scenes of Barbie 2023. Recontextualization as the 1960s as the background, and self-directed individualism. Journal of Advanced Research in Women's Studies, 2(2), 17-39. https://doi.org/10.33422/jarws.v2i2.714
- Lau, H. Y. (2023). Women's dilemmatic constraints in emerging second-wave feminism: Heideggerian ambivalence and oscillation between authenticity and inauthenticity. Journal of Advanced Research in Women's Studies, 1(2), 19-31. ISSN: 2783-7122.
Book Chapters
- Lau, H. Y. (forthcoming). On the Role of Technology in the Meso-level of Critical Discourse Analysis of Feminist Messages in Music in Second Wave Feminism of the 1960s. New Frontiers in Techno-humanities: Perspectives from Culture and Language. Routledge in the book series Routledge Studies in Translation Technology and Techno-humanities
- Lau, H. Y. (forthcoming). Taxonomy of grammar error analysis of Hong Kong year one University students' written graphics analysis of quantitative studies and implications. Engaged Learning and Innovative Teaching in Higher Education (ELITE) 2025. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology (LNET).
- Lau, H. Y. J. (2024). Existential Relationship Between Teacher-Centred Learning and Student-Centred Learning Inauthentic Solicitude as a Necessary Condition of Authentic Solicitude. In: Ma, W.W.K. (eds) Engaged Learning and Innovative Teaching in Higher Education. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2171-9_16
- Lau, H. Y. J. (2024). Technology-Aided Learning at the Intersection of Presence-At-Hand and Readiness-To-Hand and the Fusion of Horizons Among Students, Technology and Teachers. In: Ma, W.W.K. (eds) Engaged Learning and Innovative Teaching in Higher Education. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2171-9_15
- Lau, H. Y. (2023). Problems of exacerbation to Dasein in the modern technological world by use of the early Heidegger's theories: Readiness-to-hand & presence-at-hand. In K. K. W. Mak (Ed.), Advances in Techno-Humanities: Case Studies from Culture, Philosophy and the Arts. Routledge. ISBN: 9781003376491
- Lau, H. Y. (2023). Co-presence of readiness-to-hand & presence-at-hand as the shape of things by revisiting technology-aided learning from the Heideggerian perspective. In C. Hong & W. W. K. Ma (Eds.), Applied Degree Education: The Shape of Things to Come (93-106). Springer. ISBN: 9789811993145, 9811993149
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