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Looking forward to meeting students at Hong Kong Island School and discussing linguistics, AI, data science, and study and career options

We use an IPA approach to examine migrant domestic workers' breast cancer experiences, during particularly difficult recent times journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

We posit recurrent source domain associations as 'conceptual assemblages' in trauma talk (and other contexts), using an unsupervised Association Rule Mining Approach. Free e-copies at tandfonline.com/eprint/N3NTJGY… PolyU ENGL

In this article led by Joanna Chen, we examine metaphors of luxury in Hong Kong vs. Singapore hotels, and discuss the implications of different strategic patterns in promotional texts Free at authors.elsevier.com/c/1iogW9UN2EUI…

Congratulations to Summer Xie Dandan for an excellent doctoral thesis on written corrective feedback in the Chinese context…thanks to Profs Yang Kun, Jack Pun, and Christy Qiu for examining the thesis!

This is finally published and available! routledge.com/Data-Analytics…

This new paper Sage by our Margoturnbull, Carol Yu & Dennis Tay 郑志明 reveals a study of Filipino migrant domestic workers in HK with #breastcancer, with insights into the info & communication needs. Open access👉bit.ly/4aPKApY HealthCommunication #PolyUresearch

We combine machine learning (survival regression) and critical analysis to depict the construction and survivability of COVID-related “blaming” metaphors on Chinese social media. Thanks to Manuela Romano Manuela Romano for compiling this great volume! degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

From one dragon year (2012) to the next (2024), PolyU ENGL and Hong Kong have given and taught me so much. But the time has come to say goodbye and see what fate has in store for me at NTU, Singapore. Till we meet again (soon and often), goodbye.

Please feel free to attend my talk this Saturday morning (GMT +8) if you’re interested in metaphor and its applications in machine learning pedagogy. Thanks to the organisers for putting this together!

A pleasure to meet Elina Noor from Carnegie Endowment to chat about the critical implications of AI Singapore’s SEA-LION LLM - i) how “democratization” could be evaluated alongside concrete task performances, and ii) its “representation” ideal vs. reality of a heterogeneous ASEAN

We are inviting applications for a fully sponsored 2-month Spring Research Fellowship, for students who might be interested in eventually pursuing a PhD at NTU. Projects are available on the use of machine learning for discourse analysis! Feel free to reach out for more info

A highly interesting workshop with new relationships and collaborations forged. Thanks to Bee Chin and her fantastic team for making this happen, and inviting me to talk about metaphor and machine learning. NTU LMS blogs.ntu.edu.sg/multi-net-lab/

I’m really looking forward to “revisiting” HK and PolyU! Feel free to join this hybrid talk if interested. NTU LMS PolyU ENGL

Just out! In this study led by Blair Jin, we suggest how CA can complement cognitive perspectives on metaphor in social contexts. NTU LMS PolyU ENGL Free e-prints at tandfonline.com/eprint/MISZMZK…

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I offer empirical skin conductance and survey evidence of how metaphors in introductory statistics education can boost affective engagement AND teacher-student synchrony . NTU LMS tandfonline.com/eprint/USEUSFP…

We are hiring two tenure track Assistant Professors in linguistics - details and application link below! NTU LMS ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/NT…

Timely work led by Blair Ying Jin

Our study is now online with 50 days' free access. Using SMCDS, it examines how netizens blame elite groups on social media. The discourse is reflected in comments through various discursive practices along a continuum of rationality and affectivity. Dennis Tay 郑志明 PolyU ENGL