Lam Yuen Wing, Peter

Title : PhD Student (PT)
Section : Department of English
Room No. : AG415
Tel No. : 2766-4595
Email : peter.ywlam@polyu.edu.hk ; ywlam@kcrc.com

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Corpus linguistics, lexical and grammatical patterning, phraseology, lexicogrammatical analysis.

RESEARCH TITLE

A Corpus-driven Study of the Lexico-grammatical Features of Tourism Industry Texts

Articles in refereed edited collections

Lam, P. Y. W. (2007). A corpus-driven lexico-grammatical analysis of English tourism industry texts and the study of its pedagogic implications in English for Specific Purposes. In Hidalgo, Encarnacion, Luis Quereda and Juan Santana (Eds.), Corpora in the Foreign Language Classroom. Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 6). University of Granada, Spain, 4-7 July, 2004.(pp. 71-90). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. 362 pp.

Conference proceedings

Lam, P. (2004). A corpus-driven lexical analysis of English tourism industry texts and the study of its pedagogic implications in English for Specific Purposes. Proceedings of the Sixth TaLC (Teaching and Language Corpora Conference) Conference . (pp. 93). Department of English and German Languages, University of Granada, Spain, 6-9 July 2004. http://www.ugr.es/~talc6/

Papers presented at conferences and workshops

Lam, P. Y. W. (2006). "Tree-lined or tree-fringed?"A corpus-driven approach to the study of the adjectival compounds in English travel and tourism industry texts. The 3rd IVACS
group International Conference on"Language at the Interface". University of Nottingham, Nottingham, the United Kingdom, 23-24 June 2006.
IVACS 2006 paper presentation

Lam, P. (2005). Investigation of the lexico-grammar of travel industry texts: a corpus-driven approach. The case for a corpus: spoken and written corpora. Tuscan Word Centre International Workshop. Certosa di Pontignano, Tuscany, Italy, 25-29 June 2005.

Lam, P. (2004). A lexical analysis of English tourism industry texts using a corpus-driven approach. The 2nd IVACS International Conference on ˇ§Analyzing Discourse in Contextˇ¨. The Graduate School of Education, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 25-26 June 2004.


Poster presentations

Lam, P. (2004). A corpus-driven lexical analysis of English tourism industry texts and the study of its pedagogic implications in English for Specific Purposes. The Sixth TaLC (Teaching and Language Corpora Conference) Conference . Department of English and German Languages, University of Granada, Spain, 6-9 July 2004.