Workshop Speakers

Okgi Kim & Jong-Bok Kim
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & Kyung Hee University

Title: 
Negative wh-constructions in Korean: A construction-based perspective

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/
Okgi Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. https://sites.uwm.edu/okgikim/

Chongwon Park
University of Minnesota Duluth

Title: 
Cleft and Internally Headed Relative Clause constructions in Korean

Bio: 
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.

Vakkas Colak
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Title: 
Representation of Kurdish Asylum seekers in Japanese media

Bio:
Vakkas Colak is a PhD candidate, lecturer (currently teaching as Kurdish Language Lecturer) and research fellow at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is a PhD candidate in sociology at University Malaysia Perlis. He graduated from the Faculty of Education at Dicle University in Turkey in 2006. His main research interest areas are Kurdish language and literature, politics, diaspora, Japanese literature and culture.

Title: 
Linguistic bias in peer review

Bio:
Stephen Politzer-Ahles is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research involves the application of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic techniques to investigate the representation and processing of abstract linguistic phenomena.

Title: 
Hate speech as toxic and biased words: Construction and analysis of Korean hate speech corpus

Bio:
Won Ik is studying computational linguistics and spoken language processing at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University. His main research goal lies in discerning and analyzing the intention of human-like utterances in a typological manner, especially investigating the Korean language. He is interested in subword-level embeddings in Korean, prosody-semantics interface, and other NLP tasks, including semantic textual similarity and figurative languages. He also studies how language processing can benefit humans, especially regarding human-computer interaction, translation gender bias, and hate speech detection.

Yohei Oseki
The University of Tokyo

Title: 
Reverse-engineering human language processing

Bio:
Yohei Oseki is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Information Sciences at University of Tokyo and a visiting scientist at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP). Before joining University of Tokyo, he received a Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics at New York University in 2018 and was a visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. His research integrates natural language processing with the cognitive science of language and attempts to reverse-engineer "human-like" language processing. He founded Computational Psycholinguistics Tokyo (CPT) and also organized Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL).

Title: 
Common tools for new usage: Big-data resources for L2 learners and translators

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.

Lily Lim holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (University of Queensland), a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering (University of Macau), Certificate of Training Techniques (Escolas da Armada, Portugal), and Certificate of Chinese-Portuguese Conference Interpreting (Comissão Europeia). She has been both a practising interpreter and trainer for conference interpreters for nearly two decades. She is currently an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Chinese-English Translation Program at the School of Languages and Translation, Macao Polytechnic Institute. 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; book chapters with Rodopi, Springer, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and Routledge; and a monograph with Bookman.

Title: 
Making the unseen seen: The role of signaling and novelty in rating metaphors

Bio:
Kathleen Ahrens is a Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research has been published in journals including Applied Linguistics, Discourse & Society, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Metaphor and Symbol, and Text & Talk. She is Chair of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor, an Advisory Board Member for the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam, and Fellow and former President of the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities.

Title: 
Optimistic and pessimistic representations of “Russia’s rising from her knees”

Bio:
Ludmilla a’Beckett, PhD, is a researcher at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research interests include discourse analysis, intercultural communication, and language policy in the countries of the former USSR.  She was a contributor to the volumes “Persuasion in public discourse” (2018) edited by Jana Pelclova and Wei-lun Lu,  “Migration and media” (2019) edited by Lorella Viola and Andreas Musolff, “Language of conflict” (2020) edited by Natalia Knoblock.

Title:
Ukraine’s voice makes Russia angry; Lithuania speaks boldly... Establishing power relations via personification of countries

Bio:
Inesa Šeškauskienė earned her PhD in linguistics from Vilnius University in 1995 and has been affiliated with it since her graduation. She has been on research and study visits in Uppsala University, Oxford University, University of Toronto and spent six months in the University of California in Berkeley as a Fulbright scholar. Her research focuses on metaphoricity in different types of discourse (legal, political), on space and on learner language.

Jurga Cibulskienė is an Associate Professor at Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her main research interests lie in cognitive linguistics and socio-political discourse analysis; thus, she attempts to bring together cognitive metaphor studies and Critical Discourse Analysis. Her major publications have focused on describing a persuasive role of metaphor in public discourses.

Title:
Framing ELECTIONS over time: The road to universal suffrage

Bio:
Winnie Huiheng Zeng is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from Department of English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, critical metaphor analysis, metaphor and gender, political communication, and film studies. She has published articles in journals including Metaphor and Symbol, Metaphor and the Social World, and Lingua. Her recent research investigates diachronic changes in metaphorical framing of specific societal issues in public discourse.

Title:
Metaphor themes in the construction of crime and criminals

Bio:
Ulrike Tabbert is a Senior Public Prosecutor (Oberamtsanwältin) at a German prosecution office and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She holds a PhD in linguistics from Huddersfield and researches the construction of crime, criminals and victims across a variety of text types. She is co-founder of a Special Interest Group in Crime Writing at the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and a member of the Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V. Among other publication, she is the author of two monographs: Language and Crime (Palgrave Maxmillan, 2016) as well as Crime and Corpus (John Benjamins, 2015). Her most recent work includes a co-authored article on aspects of characterisation in Hadley Chase’s crime fiction (English Studies, Taylor & Francis, 2021) as well as a co-edited volume: The Linguistics of Crime: A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of Crime with Cambridge University Press (in print).

Title:
Dementia in metaphors: towards shared understanding and decision-making in families of various cultural backgrounds

Bio:
Aletta G. Dorst is a University Lecturer in Translation Studies and English Linguistics at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She was part of the team that developed MIPVU (Steen et al. 2010) and applied the procedure to analyse the forms and functions of metaphor in fiction in her PhD dissertation (Dorst 2011). She is also one of the editors of Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world (Nacey et al. 2019). Her current research and main publications focus on metaphor and translation, metaphor and style, and metaphor in health communication. She is currently leading an NRO Senior Fellow project on “The value of machine translation in the multilingual academic community”, and one of the researchers on the ZonMW Memorabel project “Dementia in metaphors”, leading the work package on metaphor identification and translation.

Title:
‘Thrown down a path you didn’t expect to go on’: Metaphors of power and agency in accounts of pregnancy loss

Bio:
Dr Sarah Turner is a cognitive linguist and lecturer in Stylistics at Coventry University, UK. She is particularly interested in the analysis of figurative language production as a means of gaining insights into physical, psychological and social experiences, with a current focus on the experience of grief and bereavement. Her postdoctoral research at the University of Birmingham, UK investigated the use of metaphors in accounts of pregnancy loss, and she is currently working on a similar project focusing on bereavement following the death of a child. Prior to taking up her current post at Coventry University, she taught at the universities of Birmingham and Tokyo. 

Beth Yin Zhong & Serena Yi Deng
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University & Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Title:
A journey to win the lottery: Infertility metaphors in online discussions

Bio:
Beth Yin Zhong is currently a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of English, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her doctoral degree in applied language sciences from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2020. Her research mainly integrates the corpus-based method and behaviour experiments to examine the relationship between sensorimotor information and lexical representations. Some related works have been accepted and published in journals such as Journal of Chinese Linguistics and Linguistics Research. Another line of her research interest lies in the (novel) metaphor comprehension and metaphors in communication.

Serena Yi Deng is a Lecturer at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China. She obtained her doctorate in applied linguistics from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include multimodal communication, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. Her works have been published in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics and Lingua, and awarded the Best Paper Award for Early Career at 9^th International Conference on Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICOEN9).

Allison Creed
University of Melbourne

Title:
Metaphors make thinking visible in vocational guidance and counselling

Bio:
Allison Creed is a Curriculum Designer and Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne with expertise in Applied Linguistics, Education, and Organizational Coaching in undergraduate and postgraduate courses on and off-shore. Her research utilizes conceptual metaphor theory and cognitive linguistics to focus on issues in career and employability and the language of wine with articles appearing in the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, International Journal of Educational and Vocational Guidance, and Journal of Career Assessment. She is also a Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Executive Committee member (Conference Secretary), research team member of the University of Southern Queensland ACCELL, and collaborates with the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Education and University of Amsterdam Metaphor Lab.

Andreas Musolff
University of East Anglia

Title:
[As a Romanian in Italy] I feel like gut-bacteria, I still feel pretty comfortable”: Migrants’ metaphors as expressions of intermediate national identities

Bio:

Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia, UK. He studied English, German and Linguistics at Düsseldorf University and SOAS and graduated with a PhD thesis on the status of Karl Bühler’s Sprachtheorie in the history of linguistics. Since 1990 he has worked in the UK, as lecturer and professor in German Language Studies at Aston University (Birmingham) and Durham University and, since 2010, as Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia (Norwich). His research interests focus on Cognitive Metaphor Studies, Intercultural and Multicultural Communication, and Public Discourse Analysis. He has published especially on figurative language in the media and in the public sphere in general; his publications include the monographs Political Metaphor Analysis – Discourse and Scenarios (2016), Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust (2010), Metaphor and Political Discourse (2004), and the co-edited volumes Metaphor and Intercultural Communication (2014), Contesting Europe’s Eastern Rim: Cultural Identities in Public Discourse (2010) and Metaphor and Discourse (2009).