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Fanny's research interests include sociolinguistics and the grammar of Cantonese and English. Her master's thesis, supervised by Penelope Eckert, is a study of the linguistic and paralinguistic signs used by a teenage ICQ community to reinforce social relationships and maintain an intense and affective style. Currently, Fanny is taking part in two research projects: one on Cantonese lexis and the other one on forms of linguistic compression. Fanny helps in teaching the second/third year course, "Contrastive Study of the Grammatical Systems of English and Chinese".
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Before working at the University of Hong Kong, she was a translator of the Hong Kong government and an English teacher of primary school children play-groups. She is a writer and editor of Voice, a quarterly publication of the Soka Gakkai International (a worldwide Buddhist organization) for college students in Hong Kong. Besides linguistics, she likes hiking, cooking, singing, photography, traveling and meeting people.
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