Dr. CATEDRAL Lydia Hwa-Che Medill
Academic Positions: City University of Hong Kong, Department of Linguistics and Translation; 2018
PhD and MA: Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Linguistics; 2012-2018
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Translation
Visiting address
YEUNG-B7604
Phone: +852 34428795
Biography
Lydia Catedral is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong. She is a sociolinguist and discourse analyst whose research focuses on the intersections between language, identity, and morality across time and space, and the implications for marginalized groups including transnational migrants in the US and Hong Kong, and LGBTQ Christians. She has published in journals such as Language in Society, Language and Communication, and Discourse and Society.
Research Interests/Areas
Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ethnography
Language ideologies; language planning; language and spatiotemporal imaginaries; language and morality
Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong; Uzbek immigrant women in the United States; LGBTQ Christians
Teaching
MA: Sociolinguistics (LT5408)
BA: Sociolinguistics (LT4244); Field and Research Methods in Linguistics (LT4243); Pragmatics (LT3215); and previously - Conversation Analysis
General Education Courses: Image of the City (GE2111)
