Bio

Dr Eve Jingwen Chen received her PhD in Linguistics at Monash University, Australia. She mainly conducts research in Sociolinguistics and Cultural Linguistics but is also experienced in the field of Applied Linguistics. Her main research interests include language and cultural conceptualizations, multilingualism and translanguaging practice, culture-oriented language education, and Chinese Englishes especially Cantonese-influenced Englishes. Her current research examines cultural conceptualizations underlying Cantonese figurative language with a focus on Cantonese cultural cognition contextualized in the developing ideologies in contemporary China. Dr Chen is now a lecturer and convenor of the Cantonese language courses at School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.