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Vijay Kumar Bhatia
Vijay Bhatia is a Visiting Professor at the Hellenic American University in Athens, and an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the founding President of the LSP and Professional Communication Association for Asia-Pacific. He retired as Professor from the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong.
Subjects: English Language & Linguistics
Biography
After 50 years of professional work, Vijay Bhatia retired from the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. Although he has retired from the institution, he continues to work for the profession. In fact, he seems to have more freedom to work for the profession than he ever had when he was working full-time for various institutions.Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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He is the founding President of the LSP and Professional Communication Association for the Asia-Pacific Rim.
Some of his recent research projects include Analyzing Genre-bending in Corporate Disclosure Documents, and International Arbitration Practice: A Discourse Analytical Study, in which he led research teams from more than 20 countries.
His research interests are: Genre Analysis of academic and professional discourses, including, legal, business, newspaper, advertising, genres; ESP and Professional Communication; simplification of legal and other public documents; cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary variations in professional genres. Two of his books, Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings and Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-based View, are widely used in genre theory and practice.
Personal Interests
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Watching cricket, since I can't play any longer.
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