http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/5126 2013-04-30T05:57:56Z 2013-04-30T05:57:56Z Leung, Cheuk Yin Eric (梁焯然) Ho, King Him (何敬謙) Chan, Siu On Andy (陳兆安) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/6845 2013-04-25T00:45:50Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Establishing the themed heritage trail -- The Happy Valley Heritage Trail: Seng Lou Beng Sei in Happy Valley Authors: Leung, Cheuk Yin Eric (梁焯然); Ho, King Him (何敬謙); Chan, Siu On Andy (陳兆安) Abstract: Heritage is crucial to all mankind because it links the past to our future. We inherit the culture, traditions and accumulated properties from our ancestors today by learning from the remaining cultural heritage either tangible or intangible. Heritage conservation is thus a fundamental agency of development of mankind which ensures the inheritance process. There is no doubt that it needs our passion and lifelong devotion to take part in. To conduct heritage conservation efficiently, not a single one of proper attitude, policies setting, techniques and education can be omitted. With regards to the rising concerns for Hong Kong’s cultural heritage among the public in recent years, heritage conservation in Hong Kong has officially moved into a new era since the 2007 Policy Address A New Direction for Hong Kong announced by the Chief Executive Donald Tsang, who declares that “a progressive city treasures its own culture and history along with a living experience unique to the city (Tsang, 2007)”. Heritage conservation is now on the right track after the stressed importance of “living experience” of the community as the essence of heritage. In the previous stage, heritage had long been seen as tourist attractions and the cultural significance of our local history and heritage was not sufficiently acknowledged and appreciation. Heritage trail is a rather new and emerging form of heritage education and conservation. In this proposal, we focus on heritage trail as one of the mostly potential means of education of heritage conservation. We sincerely propose the idea of establishing a new themed heritage trail in Happy Valley, a unique and symbolic district in Hong Kong that highly represent the cultural diversity as the local cultural characteristics, which emphasizes on the living experience of the community and manifests the cultural uniqueness of Hong Kong. The proposed heritage trail comprises of religious sites, historic sites, cemeteries, public facilities still in use, etc, which is all-embracing, inspirational and educational. Finally, in addition to a final year project, we wish to make the whole idea as a practical project that may contribute to the local heritage conservation.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee, Tsz Yan Vanlee (李梓茵) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/6844 2013-04-03T05:22:54Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Slips of the tongue in Cantonese: Lexical blends and substitutions Authors: Lee, Tsz Yan Vanlee (李梓茵) Abstract: The aim of this study is to explore the nature of our mental lexicon through naturalistic slips of the tongue made by native Cantonese speakers. Tongue slips can be categorized into several types, but only two of them are examined in this study, including lexical blends and substitutions. Although we cannot go into one’s mind, we can always get the evidence from the utterances. The examples of slips were mainly collected from ordinary conversation. Such unintentional speech performance provides enlightening insights into the mechanisms of language or more precisely, the processes of speech production. By studying those speech errors, we can learn as much about our mental lexicon. The ultimate purpose of this study is to answer the following questions: How are words stored and retrieved in the mind? To what extent are they connected by semantic associations?

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Chan, Pui Yee April (陳沛怡) Chung, Yui Sum (鍾睿琛) Leung, Yuen Ying (梁涴滎) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/6826 2013-04-05T09:41:09Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Museum and cultural identity – Hong Kong Heritage Museum Authors: Chan, Pui Yee April (陳沛怡); Chung, Yui Sum (鍾睿琛); Leung, Yuen Ying (梁涴滎) Abstract: To sustain a city’s values and to harmonize its communities, it is believed that museum collections can help the community to understand and construct their own cultural identity. This study is an examination of the analysis and critique found in the Hong Kong Heritage Museum on its effectiveness to shape Hong Kong people’s identity. The Hong Kong Heritage Museum which was established and opened in 2000, is the latest public museum about culture and heritage under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The Heritage Museum is comparatively rich and diverse in museum collections, with a relevance to different communities in Hong Kong. In order to examine the success of the Museum in constructing people’s cultural identity, quantitative questionnaires and qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted to collect relevant data. Investigation found that permanent exhibitions curated by the Museum can both address and trigger visitors’ memories and past history. The Museum’s intention to foster a local identity within a larger sense of Chinese nationalism is also discussed. In closing, recommendations are made for the Heritage Museum. By utilizing resources more wisely by putting more focus on intangible cultural heritage and on Hong Kong’s colonial heritages, Hong Kong citizens can better relate to the objects and the Museum can fit its mission statement.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Pang, Tsun Yi (彭晉怡) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/6825 2013-04-05T09:39:44Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Functional semantic study of spoken discourse from Osho Authors: Pang, Tsun Yi (彭晉怡) Abstract: This article presents an analysis of a portion of spoken discourse from Osho’s English Discourse Series God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth (Osho, 1990). It attempts to examine how the text is textualized so as to accomplish his objective, to respond to audience’s question and to persuade them of his argument. In this study, Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) and Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) are utilized to analyze the text from a structural point of view and a functional point of view respectively: that is, how ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2004: 29) are realized in the text so as to support the position of the speaker, how the text acts to rope audience in its stance and how the functional relations hold between each paragraph.

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