# Research Areas
**Source**: https://english.hku.hk/Research/Research_Areas
**Parent**: https://english.hku.hk/
- [RESEARCH AREAS](https://english.hku.hk/Research/Research_Areas)
- [PROJECTS](https://english.hku.hk/Research/Projects/Current_and_Recent_Projects)
- [CURRENT AND RECENT PROJECTS](https://english.hku.hk/Research/Projects/Current_and_Recent_Projects)
- [OTHER RECENTLY FUNDED PROJECTS](https://english.hku.hk/Research/Projects/Other_Recently_Funded_Projects)
- [PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS](https://english.hku.hk/Research/Publication_Highlights)
- [KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND IMPACT](https://english.hku.hk/Research/Knowledge_Exchange_and_Impact)
- [KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PROJECTS](https://english.hku.hk/Research/Knowledge_Exchange_and_Impact/Knowledge_Exchange_Projects)
- [KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IMPACT PROJECT FUNDING](https://english.hku.hk/Research/Knowledge_Exchange_and_Impact/Knowledge_Exchange_Impact_Project_Funding)
- [FACULTY KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AWARDS](https://english.hku.hk/Research/Knowledge_Exchange_and_Impact/Faculty_Knowledge_Exchange_Awards)
Research Areas
Cross-cultural studies in English
World literature; cross-cultural literary representation; travel writing; Western ideas and images of China; translingual theory and practice; study of literary and linguistic globalization; World Englishes.
English language and linguistics
Sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; World Englishes; corpus-linguistics; the politics and ideology of language; language and the law; language and gender; cognitive sociolinguistics, English grammar; construction grammar; grammaticalization; Integrational linguistics; philosophy of language; phonetics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition.
Language and communication
Language and culture; theories of communication; intercultural communication; language in workplace and institutional settings; politeness.
Literary studies in English
Literary and cultural studies and theory; medieval literature, renaissance literature; Romanticism; Victorianism; modernism; postmodernism; the English novel; English poetry; feminist approaches to literature; American literature; contemporary British fiction; Hong Kong and other Asian literatures in English; postcolonial literatures; travel writing; creative writing; drama.