Jong-Bok Kim, Chongwon Park

Kyung Hee University, University of Minnesota

Title:

External Possession Constructions in Korean: Argument Composition and Inheritance Network

Bio:

Jong-Bok Kim, Alexeder von Humboldt Research Award Winner, is Professor at Dept of English Language and Literature and Director at Institute for the Study of Language and Information in Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. http://web.khu.ac.kr/~jongbok/

Chongwon Park is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota Duluth. His research centers on Korean and English morpho-syntax from a cognitive linguistics perspective, particularly working within Cognitive Grammar. His research articles have appeared in journals such as Cognitive Linguistics, Language and Cognition, and Studies in Language, among others. His research monograph on the topic of Korean case—Reference Point and Case: A Cognitive Grammar Exploration of Korean—was published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in 2019.

Kathleen Ahrens, Winnie Huiheng Zeng, Christian Burgers

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The University of Amsterdam

Title:

Women and War: Gender Stereotyping in Conceptual Metaphors

Bio:

Kathleen Ahrens is a Professor in the Department of English and Communication and member of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is Chair of the Executive Board for the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (’18-’22), former President of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (’18-’19), and a member of the International Advisory Board for the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam. She takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of metaphor, running behavioural crowd-sourcing, neuro-imaging, and reaction times studies, as well as analysing metaphor use through corpus-based and ontological-based approaches.

Winnie Huiheng Zeng is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, critical metaphor analysis, and political communication. She has published articles in journals including Journal of Pragmatics, Lingua, Metaphor and Symbol, and Metaphor and the Social World. Her recent research focuses on effects of message framing in health communication.

Prof. dr. Christian Burgers is a Full Professor by special appointment in Strategic Communication (Logeion Chair) in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam and an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the role of language in strategic communication, with a particular focus on figurative language such as metaphor, hyperbole and irony.

Jieyu Chen

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Title:

Source Domain of building as a Frame for Legitimization

Bio:

Jieyu Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, conceptual metaphor analysis, business communication, and climate discourse. Her recent research investigates gain- and loss-framed source domains used as legitimization strategies in Corporate Social Responsibility reports.

Shan Wang

University of Macau

Title:

Predictions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait

Bio:

Shan Wang is an assistant professor at the University of Macau. Her research fields are lexical semantics, lexicology and lexicography, teaching Chinese as a second language. She has published articles in SSCI, SCI and CSSCI indexed journals and with international publishers. In the last three years, she has won six outstanding paper awards: the First Level Award of the Young Talent Award at the Third International Conference on Language Teaching and Research, the Excellent Paper Award at the 12th Annual Conference of the Educational Linguistics Professional Committee of the English-Chinese Comparative Research Association of China, the Outstanding Youth Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language, the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 9th National Conference on Cognitive Neurolinguistics, Best Paper Award at the 6th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum, and the First Level Best Paper Award at Language Research and Chinese Language Education in a Multicultural Environment Online Academic Conference.

Yin Zhong, Kathleen Ahrens

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Title:

Sensation and Emotion: Linguistic manifestations of affective differentiation in sensory modalities

Bio:

Yin Zhong is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research mainly integrates corpus-based method and behaviour experiments to examine the relationship between sensorimotor information and lexical representations. Some related works have been published in journals including Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, and Linguistics Research. Another line of her research interest lies in the (novel) metaphor comprehension and use of metaphors in communication.

Kathleen Ahrens is a Professor in the Department of English and Communication and member of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is Chair of the Executive Board for the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (’18-’22), former President of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (’18-’19), and a member of the International Advisory Board for the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam. She takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of metaphor, running behavioural crowd-sourcing, neuro-imaging, and reaction times studies, as well as analysing metaphor use through corpus-based and ontological-based approaches.

Junlin Li

Peking University

Title:

Covid-19 in Topics: A Frame Analysis of Arabic Media Coverage of Covid-19 Pandemic on News Outlets and Twitter Accounts

Bio:

Junlin Li is a master’s student at the Department of Arabic of Peking University (School of Foreign Languages). He is interested in multi-lingual Speech and Language Processing, especially sub-word embedding of low-resource languages and cross-lingual semantic alignment. He also investigates the application of Speech and Language Processing in Humanities especially Critical Discourse Analysis.

Winnie Huiheng Zeng, Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Title:

Fighting against the Pandemic: A Gain-framed or Loss-framed WAR?

Bio:

Winnie Huiheng Zeng is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, critical metaphor analysis, and political communication. She has published articles in journals including Journal of Pragmatics, Lingua, Metaphor and Symbol, and Metaphor and the Social World. Her recent research focuses on effects of message framing in health communication.

Kathleen Ahrens is a Professor in the Department of English and Communication and member of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is Chair of the Executive Board for the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (’18-’22), former President of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (’18-’19), and a member of the International Advisory Board for the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam. She takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of metaphor, running behavioural crowd-sourcing, neuro-imaging, and reaction times studies, as well as analysing metaphor use through corpus-based and ontological-based approaches.

Chu-Ren Huang (PhD, Cornell; DHC, Aix-Marseille) is a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published 30 book or edited volumes, 30 online or licensable language resources, more than 140 journal articles, and more than 130 book chapters. His main research areas include computational and corpus linguistics, digital humanities, lexical semantics, and ontology. His papers have appeared in Computational Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theories; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; IEEE Access; IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing; Intercultural Pragmatics; Journal of Quantitative Linguistics; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience; Language Resources and Evaluation; Lingua; Lingua Sinica; Natural Language Engineering; PLoS One; Scientific Reports; among others. His upcoming books include Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics and A Student Grammar of Chinese.

Vincent Xian Wang, Xi Chen, Lily Lim, Chu-Ren Huang

University of Macau, Macao Polytechnic University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Title:

Framing the epidemic by WAR metaphors in the Macao Daily News – Lexis, themes, and frames for persuasion

Bio:

Vincent X. Wang, Associate Professor of the University of Macau and a NAATI-certified translator, received his MA and PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Queensland (2006). His research interests are in interlanguage pragmatics, corpus-based contrastive language studies, and discourse and pragmatics in translation. He published journal articles in Sage Open, Target, Journal of Language, Literature and Culture and TESOL-related periodicals, book chapters with Springer, Routledge and Brill, conference papers with PACLIC and CLSW, and a monograph Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners (John Benjamins). His recent research draws on big data and corpus linguistics methodologies to investigate language properties, discourse, and the use of conceptual metaphors in social events such as COVID-19.

Xi Chen is a PhD candidate in linguistics supervised by Prof. Vincent Wang at the University of Macau. He was under the joint supervision of Prof. Chu-Ren Huang at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests are corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. He has published papers in the proceedings of PACLIC and CLSW.

Lily Lim holds a Ph.D. and an MA in applied linguistics (University of Queensland), a master’s degree in software engineering (University of Macau). She has been both a practising interpreting and trainer for conference interpreters for two decades. She is currently an Associate Professor and the Deputy Director of MPU-Bell Centre of English, the Macao Polytechnic University. Her recent research covers computer-assisted interpreter and translator training and corpus-based language studies. She has published papers in ReCALL, Babel and The Interpreter and Translator Trainer; chapters with Springer, Rodopi, Routledge, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing; and an edited book with Springer and a monograph with Bookman.

Chu-Ren Huang (PhD, Cornell; DHC, Aix-Marseille) is a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published 30 book or edited volumes, 30 online or licensable language resources, more than 140 journal articles, and more than 130 book chapters. His main research areas include computational and corpus linguistics, digital humanities, lexical semantics, and ontology. His papers have appeared in Computational Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theories; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; IEEE Access; IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing; Intercultural Pragmatics; Journal of Quantitative Linguistics; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience; Language Resources and Evaluation; Lingua; Lingua Sinica; Natural Language Engineering; PLoS One; Scientific Reports; among others. His upcoming books include Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics and A Student Grammar of Chinese.