Visiting Scholars working with Robert N. St. Clair

Doctoral students and post doctoral fellows are associated with the Institute from time to time. They work with fellow members of the institute. Some of them are cited infra.

Professor Song Wang 2007-2008

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Song Wang
Associate Professor (2005- )
School of Foreign Languages,
Harbin Institute of Technology,
Harbin, PR China

Ph.D (June, 2008)
Shanghai International Studies University,
Shanghai, PR China
Dissertation Supervisors: Deming Mei & Yuxin Jia
Dissertation topic:
Intercultural Communication Concerns: Interactions between American Advisors and Chinese Graduate Students in Educational Contexts

Visiting Professor (Feb. 2007- Feb. 2008)
University of Louisville Supervisor: Dr. Robert N St Clair
Research grant was from China Scholarship Council (CSC)

Dissertation Director: Proj. YuXin Jia, Harbin Institute of Technology

 

 

Marcos Rogério Cintra 2008-2009

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Marcos Rogerio Cintra

Ph.D. in Linguistics (Ongoing). State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Institute of Language Studies (IEL). Research Grant from FAPESP (The State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation) and Capes (The Brazilian Ministry of Education’s Coordination Department for Higher Education Personnel Improvement).

Marcos Rogerio Cintra currently researches the expression of futurity in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, especially the emergency of periphrastic forms. Other research interests include cognition, language, grammaticalization.

E-mail: cintramr@gmail.com

 

Dissertation Director: Dr. Ingedore Grunfeld Villaça Koch (UNICAMP)

University of Louisville Supervisor: Robert N. St. Clair

 

Meng yu li 2008-2009

 

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Mengyu Li

Associate professor
College of Arts, Journalism & Communication, Ocean University of China,
23 Eastern Hongkong Road, Qingdao, 266071, PRC.

Supervisor: Robert N. St. Clair, University of Louisville

 

 

 

 

Jialin Mo

Ph.D. Candidate, National Research Center for Foreign Language Education

Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, PR of China

Supervisor, Robert N. St. Clair, University of Louisville

PUBLICATIONS:

Functional Discourse Analysis of Four English versions of Chinese Poem in Tang Dynasty [C], in Foreign Language and Linguistics, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Social Sciences Press, 2006.
Arguments over Saussure’s Principle of Arbitrariness and its Philosophical Basis [J], Journal of Shaanxi Normal University, 2006, 3.
A Systematic Evaluation of New Horizon English [J], Foreign language Education, special issue, 2006.

My recent research interest lies in cognitive linguistics esp. metaphorical mapping, basic-level category and dead metaphors. Metaphors are really intriguing and I hope I
can make my own contribution to the metaphorical research by analyzing Chinese linguistic data and testifying some language‑specific and cultural‑specific
factors in metaphorical interpretation.