Tiffany Pang

PhD Linguistics & English Language

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Dugald Stewart Building

City
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Biography

Background

Tiffany joined PPLS as a PhD student since 2017. She is also a full-time instructor in the Language Centre of the City University of Hong Kong.

Research summary

Sociolinguistics, language and gender, language and identity, discourse analysis

Current research interests

Tiffany’s research focuses on the inextricable ties between gendered constructs and identity. She is particularly interested in how new forms of femininity are discursively shaped, and how one’s (feminine) identity is constituted by both the self and other in local interactional contexts. In particular, Tiffany wants to find out how individuals produce and re-produce the meaning of “Princess Syndrome”, a gendered construct widely discussed across various Asian regions. Tiffany also aims to uncover how women draw the resources made available by the discourses of Princess Syndrome to purposefully project their feminine identity, and in turn, how the purposefully-projected feminine identity is interpreted by the women’s perceivers. Methodologically, Tiffany is specialized at corpus-assisted discourse analysis, narrative analysis, and membership categorization analysis.

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