FONG, Ronald - Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Email

ronaldf@um.edu.mo

Tel

(853) 8822 8214

Office

E21-4073

Consultation Hours

Mondays and Thursdays

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Ronald FONG

Senate Staff-Student Consultative Committee Member for FAH 2018-2020

Introduction

Ronald Fong first joined the University of Macau as Lecturer of English Studies and then he was Programme Coordinator of English Studies – General Programme before the Department of English was established. He was also a member of several search committees and was involved with the curriculum revision for linguistics.

Ronald is currently a managing editor of Journal of Chinese Linguistics.

Education

Ronald obtained his BA (Hons) from the University of Macau, an MPhil from the University of Glasgow and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong, specialising in modern English language and theoretical linguistics.

Research Interests

Ronald is interested in a wide range of topics in linguistics from syntax to sociolinguistics, which is reflected in his publications. He specializes in the interface between syntax and semantics, particularly in the constructionist models. His publications include academic journal articles, editing a book on discourse and grammar to which Halliday and Fries contributed, and a recent monograph on the Chinese resultative construction. He is also interested in popularizing linguistics and this has resulted in several articles of the subject in newspapers and journals. Ronald is now working on a book on the cognitive constructional approach to translation.

Courses Regularly Taught

He typically teaches introduction to linguistics, English phonetics and phonology and English Grammar. He also teaches MA phonology and pedagogical English grammar. He supervises MA theses on various topics.

Professional Experience

Ronald gives workshops on different aspects of the English language such as the sound system, and grammar and vocabulary to school teachers to help with their pedagogical concerns.

Teaching training for Escola Lin Fong Pou Chai, 2022

https://fah.um.edu.mo/prof-ronald-fong-provides-teaching-training-at-escola-lin-fong-pou-chai/

2021 March, Macao Daily News

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Ronald has reviewed articles for Lingua, Cognitive Linguistic Studies, Chinese Language and Discourse, Language and Cognition etc. He has also reviewed book proposals for publishers such as Routledge, Taylor and Francis, etc

Honours & Awards

Ronald’s monograph The Chinese Resultative Construction – a Cognitive Constructional Analysis (2020) published by LINCOM received a merit prize in the 6th Macau Outstanding Research Achievements Awards for Humanities and Social Sciences from Macau Foundation in 2022.

Ronald received the Incentive Award for Outstanding Academic Staff from the University of Macau (2021).

Ronald’s article Chinese Motion-Directional Construction: A Conceptual and Cognitive Analysis published in Studies in Chinese Linguistics (2017) was awarded by Macau Foundation the Second Prize in the 5th Macau Outstanding Research Achievements Awards for Humanities and Social Sciences in 2019.

He also received the Long Service Award for 25 years from the University of Macau in 2023.

In 2014 Ronald was awarded a scholarship by Erasmus Mundus to do research at Freie Universite Berlin, Germany.

Selected Publications

Contracted Book

Fong, Ronald (in progress) A Cognitive-constructional Approach to Translation. Springer

Monograph

Fong, Ronald (2020) The Chinese Resultative Construction: a Cognitive Constructional Analysis (LINCOM Studies in Chinese Linguistics 14) Lincom: Munchen

Journal Articles

Fong, Ronald (2022) Is Knowing the Constructions Enough to Understand Modality Patterns in English?, English Today, Cambridge University Press
Fong, Ronald (2021) A Constructional-cognitive Analysis of the Cantonese Motion-Directional Construction, in Crossing-over: New Insights into the Dialects of Guangdong. Hall de Culture
Fong, Ronald (2020) Caused-Motions in Chinese: a Constructional-cognitive Analysis, Ampersand Volume 7, Elsevier
Fong, Ronald (2019) Resultative Constructions in English and Chinese: a Functional-Cognitive Analysis, Linguistics and the Human Sciences Volume 13.3, p236-241, Equinox Publishing Ltd, UK
Fong, Ronald (2018) A Cognitive Analysis of Cantonese Motion-Directional Construction and its Implications for Translation, Translation Research and Teaching, Volume 1, Issue 2, p16-28
Fong, Ronald (2017) Chinese Motion-Directional Construction: a Conceptual and Cognitive Analysis, Studies in Chinese Linguistics, Volume 38, Issue 2, p119-147 (This article won the Second Prize in the fifth Outstanding Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in Macau)
Fong, Ronald (2016) Chinese as Satellite-framed – a Constructional-cognitive Interpretation, Cognitive Linguistic Studies, Volume 2, p234-259
Fong, Ronald. (2015). The Chinese Ba as a Verb: a Constructional-Cognitive Approach. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics. Vol 5, p48-64.
Fong, Ronald. (2015). A Constructional-Cognitive Analysis of Chinese Directionals. Cognitive Semantics. Vol 1, Issue 1, p104-130.

Book edited

Fong, I.W.R., W. Guthrie & S.Z. Ren, eds. (2001). Grammar and Discourse. University of Macau: Macau

Book chapter

Fong, I.W.R. (1999). Language planning and language strategy. Issues of the pre- and post-turnover of Macau. Yuanliu: Hong Kong (Also appears in Linguistics Journal of Macau)