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Ms. GU Jia Pei Sybil
Part-time lecturer
PhD candidate in English, Lingnan University
MA in Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong
BA in English, Hangzhou Normal University, Qianjiang College
Cert in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Cambridge English, University of Cambridge
Course Taught
English Usage II
Research Interest
Critical Discourse Analysis
Corpus Linguistics
Metaphor Studies
Narrative Analysis
Selected publications
Gu, J., & Ho, J. (2024). Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong. Language in Society. https://doi.org/10.1017=S004740452400037X (SSCI)
Gu, J., & Boukala, S. (2024). Examining the discursive construction of Chinese grassroots cybernationalism: A case study on the Permanent Residence Law for Foreigners. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00103.gu (SCOPUS)
Ho, J., & Gu, J. (2023). Small stories of a key moment: Exploring discursive construction in digital quarantine stories. Discourse Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231184597 (SSCI)
Gu, J., & Ho, J. (2023). Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse: A critical discourse historical analysis. Social Semiotics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2023.2210506 (SSCI)
Book review
Gu, J. (2023). Review of the book Social Media and Society: Integrating the Digital with the Social in Digital Discourse, by M. KhosraviNik. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 15, 1-4. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/cadaad/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/BkRv_Gu_Yuze-Rv.pdf
Conferences
Gu, J. (accepted). The language politics of social exclusion: An analysis of African immigrants in Hong Kong [conference presentation]. International Association of Applied Linguistics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Gu, J. (2024, May 23). The construction and negotiation of Africanness and Blackness in the Chinese social media: A critical discourse analysis [conference presentation]. 11th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS XI), Seville, Spain.
Gu, J. (2024, April 25). Anti-black and anti-African sentiments as a common ground: A critical discourse analysis of digital representations of Blackness and Africanness in China [conference presentation]. Common Ground in Linguistics: From its Construction to its Role in Mapping Meaning. Paris Nanterre, France.
Gu, J., & Lai, T. Y. (2024, April 6). Linguistic landscape of African communities in Guangzhou [conference presentation]. Postgraduate Conference on Interdisciplinary Learning, HKSAR, China.
Ho, J., & Gu, J. (2024, March 11). Critical discourse analysis of anti-Black sentiments in Chinese digital space [guest speakers]. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Gu, J., & Boukala, S. (2023, October 18). Grassroots digital nationalism: “Dehumanized foreigners” and “dignified Chinese” by discursive construction [conference presentation], International Symposium Identities and Identity Construction in Discourse and Language, Brest, France.
Ho, J., & Gu, J. (2023, June 30). Language hostility and mediated representations in migrant domestic worker mistreatment discourse [conference presentation]. 8th International Conference on Grammar & Text, Lisbon, Portugal.
Gu, J., & Ho, J. (2023, June 29). Language and prejudice: A critical discursive analysis of social media representations of Blackness in China [conference presentation]. 8th International Conference on Grammar & Text, Lisbon, Portugal.
Gu, J. (2023, June 23). Grassroots digital nationalism by discursive construction: The case of permanent residence law for foreigners [conference presentation]. Linguistics Prague 2023, Prague, The Czech Republic.
Gu, J., & Ho, J. (2023, May 29). Migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong: How they were discursively represented in online and offline contexts [guest speakers]. MA course Theories and Practice in English for Professional Purpose at National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Gu, J., & Ho, J. (2023, March 23). Critical discourse analysis of the discursive representations of blackness on Chinese social media [conference presentation]. Language and Power, Münster, Germany.
Gu, J., & Ho. J. (2023, February 20). Media representation of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong [Seminar]. Lingnan University, HKSAR, China.
Gu, J. (2023, January 25). Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse: A critical discourse historical approach [Seminar]. Wednesday Seminars at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece.