Andrew Goatly

Andrew Goatly is an English language professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Career

Goatly studied English at Jesus College, Oxford before working for Voluntary Service Overseas in Rwanda and Thailand. On returning to the United Kingdom he worked as a schoolteacher before obtaining a doctorate at University College, London and thereafter teaching at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, the National University of Singapore and Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has written:[1]

  • The Language of Metaphors, and Critical Reading and Writing, published by Routledge
  • Washing the Brain: the hidden ideology of metaphor, published by John Benjamins
  • Explorations in Stylistics, published by Equinox
  • Meaning and Humour, published by Cambridge University Press.
gollark: Isn't it a very evil horrible chemical you should avoid?
gollark: I've *probably* provided enough information... generally on the interweb... to uniquely identify me in real life if anyone cared enough.
gollark: Surely whoever it is could do it *again* if they did it once?
gollark: Or provided enough that they could associate it with some other thing somewhere which held that information.
gollark: Specific heat capacity? If you're talking about energy it can hold rather than how well it dissipates it.

References
  1. Goatly, Andrew (2005). "After reading English..." (PDF). Jesus College Newsletter. Jesus College, Oxford (4, Michaelmas Term): 11. Archived from the original (pdf) on 14 August 2007.


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