Andrew Goatly
Lingnan University – Hong Kong
Andrew Goatly is coming to the end/climax? of a long academic career. He graduated from Jesus College Oxford and University College London, where he was supervised for his Ph.D. by the late Randolph Quirk. He has taught English language and literature in schools, colleges and universities in Rwanda, Thailand, the UK, Singapore, Austria and Hong Kong, where he is still affiliated to Lingnan University as an honorary professor. His main academic interests are metaphor and metonymy, linguistic humour, critical discourse analysis, and (eco-) stylistics. He has published six books: The Language of Metaphors (Routledge 1997, 2nd edition 2011), Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age (Routledge 2000, 2nd edition with Preet Hiradhar 2016), Washing the Brain: metaphor and hidden ideology (Benjamins 2007), Explorations in Stylistics (Equinox 2008), Meaning and Humour (Cambridge University Press 2012), and his most recent Two Dimensions of Meaning: similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy, language, culture and ecology (Routledge 2022). He is now semi-retired in Canterbury UK where he cultivates his garden, is a member of the Green Party, and a keen amateur singer.
Andrew will present a plenary entitled Ecostylistics and the terrors of transitivity