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  • Cantonese on Hong Kong’s Side, Mandarin on Beijing’s Side

    How do people from high-context culture talk about the elephant in the room? Hong Kong is such a place trapped in sensitive political issues in recent years. How do Hong Kong people express their political opinion, and how do listeners perceive such implicit information with little misunderstanding? The answer is the language they use. Continue reading

  • News: College Survey Finds Strong Support for Sustainability.

    New research conducted in the summer of 2019 and released today reveals broad support for slashing the environmental footprint at St Edmund Hall (SEH). The results of a survey conducted by undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate teaching fellow members (JCR, MCR, and SCR, respectively, also known as “aularians”), not only uncover an 86% approval of this Continue reading

  • Call for articles for Ex Aula’s Hilary 2020 issue

    Vance Tan, Editor-in-Chief of the MCR Ex Aula Research Journal is now accepting submissions from all MCR members for publication in Hilary 2020, in the fields of: Humanities Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Medical Sciences Social Sciences Entries of no more than 800 words should address the importance of your research and its relevance to Continue reading