个人简介

Brian Chan joined the University of Macau in 2004 and holds an associate professorship. Education He obtained his MA in English Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his PhD in Linguistics at University College London. Professional Experience His thesis is entitled ‘Aspects of the Syntax, Production and Pragmatics of Code-switching-with special reference to Cantonese and English’, a revised version of which was published subsequently (Chan 2003). Having been trained in theoretical linguistics as a student, Brian was also exposed to applied linguistics, partly due to his research topic, surnamely, code-switching, which has been analyzed primarily in the perspectives of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, and partly due to his work as a lecturer in the English Departments of the City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.