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Symposium Program

 

Day 1: 18 June 2021

Time

Program

09:00 – 09:30

Opening Ceremony
Welcoming speech
Prof. Ping LI, Dean of Faculty of Humanities & Chair Professor of CBS

09:30 – 10:30

Keynote 1
Professor Christine JI’s keynote: Consumer-Adaptive Health Translation

 

Applied Linguistics session

10:30 – 10:50

Figurative language and persuasion: The effectiveness of metaphor and hyperbole in hotel advertisements
Miss. CHEN Zhuoan

10:55 – 11:15

The interaction between metaphor use and psychological states: a mix-method analysis of trauma talk in the Chinese context
Ms. QIU Han

11:20 – 11:40

A comparison of Chinese and Hong Kong English second language textbooks in relation to gender
Ms. LI Haiqing

 

Health Communication session

11:45 – 12:05

Discoursal conflicts: Reports on China’s handling of Covid-19 among Chinese and Western media representations
Mr. CHEN Chuanren

12:10 – 12:30

Effect of official social media communication on public engagement in different health crisis stages: an exploratory study on Chinese official COVID 19 communication
Mr. LU Wenze

12:35 – 13:30

Poster session 1

13:30 – 14:30

Lunch

 

Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics session

14:30 – 14:50

Neural mechanism of lexical tone perception in Mandarin-speaking older adults
Miss FENG Yan

14:55 – 15:15

Visual features predict human agreement on object naming, and graded category membership: insights from a language & vision analysis
Miss GUALDONI Eleonora

 

Language Education session

15:20 – 15:40

The delivery of Chinese language teaching within the framework of curriculum for excellence in Scotland
Miss LIU Xi

15:45 – 16:05

Translanguaging as a pedagogical practice in a Chinese EFL classroom
Miss XIA Lei

16:10 – 16:25

Phonetic compound characters in L2 Chinese Writing: A corpus-based Error Analysis
Mr. LUO Xiao Peter

(Withdraw by the author)

16:30 – 18:30

Workshop 1
Dr. Bodo WINTER’s workshop: An introduction to statistical modelling and linear mixed effect models with R

18:30 – 19:30

Social event
“We are on the same boat”

Day 2: 19 June 2021

Time

Program

 

Language session 1

09:00 – 09:20

Chinese and English child semantic networks: Shared properties and cross-linguistic variations
Ms. PENG Yingying

09:25 – 09:45

Identifying developmental language disorder in bilingual Urdu-Cantonese ethnic minority children in Hong Kong
Miss. HAMDANI Saboor

10:00 – 11:00

Workshop 2
Dr. Marshall YIN’s workshop: Starting your Thesis Journey – Writing Effective Thesis Introductions via Personalization and Introspection

 

Language session 2

11:00 – 11:20

A structural priming study on the function of causative Ba construction in Mandarin Chinese
Miss. CHEN Bingxian

11:25 – 11:45

Grammar "bores the crap out of me!": A mixed-method study on the XTYOFZ construction and its usage by ESL speakers
Ms. CHAN Nok Chin Lydia

11:50 – 12:15

Poster session 2

12:15 – 13:15

Lunch

 

Corpus and Computational Linguistics session

13:15 – 13:35

How does verb aspect influence the activation of typical event locations?  A case study on English with EEG experiment and BERT
Mr. CHO Won Ik

13:40 – 14:00

Sound-symbolic bias in Italian spatial deixis
Mr. JOO Ian

14:05 – 14:20

Did the cat drink the coffee? Challenging transformers with generalized event knowledge
Dr. PEDINOTTI Paolo

14:30 – 15:30

Keynotes 2
Professor Alessandro LENCI’ s keynote: Smart parrots or baby humans? The knowledge of language in men and machines

 

Speech session

15:30 – 15:50

Head and neck movements In lexical tone production: A qualitative study on perceived movements by native Cantonese speakers
Mr. KAN See Lok Jason

15:55 – 16:15

Speech production by younger and older adults in story recall
Mr. XIE Chenwei

16:20 – 16:40

Diagnostic methods of childhood apraxia of speech in Chinese-speaking children: A scoping review
Mr. WONG Eddy CH

16:45 – 17:05

Tonal versus segmental perception in Mandarin Chinese speakers
Miss. CHEN Siying

17:10 – 18:00

Closing Ceremony
Announcement of Best Presentation Awards

 

Poster sessions

Time

Presentations

Day 1
12:35 – 13:30

&

Day 2
11:50 – 12:15

An investigation of the use of medium of instruction in elementary Mandarin Chinese classes in Scotland: A case study of Edinburgh Chinese School
Miss LIU Xi

Writing ability of Chinese learners from the perspective of metadiscourse
Miss. SUN Jiale

The effects of deictic pedagogical gestures on EFL learners’ acquisition of English past tense
Miss QU Congyi

How bilinguals comprehend words in the text: Evidence from functional connectivity with graph theory analysis
Miss. GU Chanyuan


 
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