Ling U

• Critical Metaphor Analysis

• Stylistics or the Language of Literature

• Critical Discourse Analysis

Books

• Two Dimensions of Meaning: Similarity and Contiguity in Metaphor and Metonymy, Language, Culture and Ecology. London and New York: Routledge (2022)

• Meaning and Humour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2012)

• The Language of Metaphors 2nd revised edition. London and New York: Routledge (2010)

• Explorations in Stylistics. London: Equinox (2008)

• Washing the Brain: Metaphor and Hidden Ideology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2007)

• Critical Reading and Writing. London and New York: Routledge (2000)

• The Language of Metaphors. London and New York: Routledge (1997)

• Buddhist Lexicogrammar of Golding's Pincher Martin, Department of English, National University of Singapore (1996)

• “Metaphor as a Resource for Evaluation and Expression of Emotion” INT-EVAL Workshop, Madrid, November 2011.

• “Locating Stylistics in the Discipline of English Studies” Invited speaker at English Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 2012.

• “Metaphor and Ideology” Invited speaker at English Department Nanjing University, November 2011.

• “The Human-Nature Relationship and the Problems with English Grammar” Invited speaker at English Department Nanjing University, November 2011.

• “A  Framework for Understanding Metaphor and some Problems in Translating it” Invited Plenary speaker at National University of Indonesia, Jakarta, October 2011.