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Radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar and the development of non-deontic be bound to
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Dirk Noël - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/83/Dr%20Dirk%20No%C3%ABl) Abstract Even when both use and cognition are incorporated in its theorizing about grammatical change, research in the budding discipline of diachronic construction grammar which explicitly subscribes to a “usage-based” approach does not always distinguish between abstraction from the observed usage of a linguistic community and […]
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When is consent not consent? Medical Ethics-in-Interaction
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Hannah Shipman - School of English, HKU Abstract Informed consent is held as the ethical and legal bedrock of clinical practice and research involving humans, though there is ongoing debate about the extent to which it is attained. A paradigm of consent focusing on individual autonomy and self-determination is dominant. With increasing numbers of […]
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Performing Afro Asian Martial Arts
by Dr. Zachary Price, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Destiny Their Choice: Consent and Subjection in the Eighteenth Century Domestic Novel
by Dr. Brandon Chua (University of Queensland)
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Samuel Johnson, the Journey (1775), and the Terror of Sight
by Dr. Anne M. Thell (National University of Singapore)
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Feeling One’s Self: Onania and Eighteenth-Century Networks of Desire
by Dr. Leah Benedict (Washington State University)
