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Research interests
Ideophones, onomatopoeia, mimetics; Cognitive Linguistics; lexical semantics; Cognitive Grammar;
historical linguistics; Chinese (in all its variants)
Current employment
Postdoctoral fellow, The University of Hong Kong 2021-2023 (PI Youngah Do, Ph.D, Co-Is Mark Dingemanse, Ph.D Hong Kong & Arthur Lewis Thompson, Ph.D; GRF 17603120)
Education:
PhD Linguistics (A+), National Taiwan University: Graduate Institute of Linguistics 2015-2020 Dissertation: Prototypicality and salience of Chinese ideophones: Taipei, Taiwan A cognitive and corpus linguistics approach Advisor: Lu Chiarung 呂佳蓉, Ph.D
MA Linguistics (magna cum laude), University of Leuven 2014-2015
Thesis: Ideophones in Middle Chinese: Leuven, Belgium A typological study of a Tang dynasty poetic corpus
Advisor: Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Ph.D
MA Sinology (magna cum laude), University of Leuven 2013-2014
Thesis: The Guwen yundong 古文运动 (Classical Prose Movement) Leuven, Belgium during Tang and Song: Ideological as well as Stylistic Innovation?
Advisor: Willy Vande Walle, Ph.D
Year-long Mandarin Chinese exchange study, Suzhou University 苏州大学 2012-2013 Suzhou, China
BA Sinology (cum laude), University of Leuven 2009-2012 Leuven, Belgium
Additional training and education
Summer school: Chinese Digital Humanities. Leiden: Leiden University. July 2016
Summer school: Translating Chinese (Summer +10). Taipei: National Taiwan University. July 2014
Honours and awards
Financial Assistance Grant for International Students 國際學位生助學金 2019-2020
Financial Assistance Grant for International Students 國際學位生助學金 2018-2019
Research Fellowship for Outstanding International Doctoral Students 優秀國際博士生獎學金 2015-2018
Scholarship from the Hanban 汉办, for long-term study of Chinese 2012-2013
Research
Book chapters
[1] Van Hoey, Thomas. forthcoming. A semantic map for ideophones. In Thomas Fuyin Li (ed.) Handbook of Cognitive Semantics. Ch. 16. Leiden: Brill. (accepted, expected in 2022)
[2] Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2019. Lexical variation of ideophones in Chinese classics: Their implications in embodiment and migration. In Janice Fon (ed.), Dimensions of diffusion and diversity, 195–226. (Cognitive Linguistics Research 63). Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110610895
Refereed articles
[3] Thompson Arthur Lewis, Thomas Van Hoey & Youngah Do. 2021. Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: Evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones. Cognitive Linguistics 32(4)*. doi: 10.1515/cog-2020-0055
*Editor’s choice for this issue
[4] Van Hoey, Thomas. forthcoming. The blending of bending: How we engage with the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender through memes. Metaphor and Symbol. (accepted).
[5] Van Hoey, Thomas & Arthur Lewis Thompson. 2020. The Chinese Ideophone Database (CHIDEOD). Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 49(2). 136–167. doi: 10.1163/19606028-bja10006
[6] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2018. Does the thunder roll? Mandarin Chinese meteorological expressions and their iconicity. Cognitive Semantics (4:2), 230-259. doi: 10.1163/23526416-00402003
Resources and data sets
[7] Van Hoey, Thomas & Arthur Lewis Thompson. 2019. The Chinese ideophone database (CHIDEOD). CHIDEOD is accessible in .xlsx, .csv, .rds formats (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/KPWGF), as well as through a Shiny app interface.
Theses
[8] PhD thesis Linguistics (grade: A+) 2020 Prototypicality and salience of Chinese ideophones: A cognitive and corpus linguistics approach 漢語擬聲(態)詞的原型與顯著特徵:以認知與語料庫語言學方法探討
[9] MA thesis Linguistics (grade: 17.4/20)2015 Ideophones in Middle Chinese: A typological study of a Tang dynasty poetic corpus
[10] MA thesis Sinology (grade: 18.6/20)2014 The Guwen yundong 古文运动 (Classical Prose Movement) during Tang and Song: Ideological as well as Stylistic Innovation?
Publications in preparation
[11] Van Hoey, Thomas. Tuples and prototypes of collocate-ideophone constructions like ABB in Mandarin.
[12] Thomas Van Hoey & Thompson, Arthur Lewis. Converging evidence: ABB constructions in Mandarin analyzed in the corpus and rated in the experiment.
[13] Do, Youngah*, Arthur Lewis Thompson*, Thomas Van Hoey* & Mark Dingemanse. Ideophones – no benefits for memory but equally guessable
* co-first authors
[14] Do, Youngah*, Arthur Lewis Thompson*, Thomas Van Hoey* & Mark Dingemanse. Teasing apart sound, meaning and gesture of ideophones in a transmission and iterated learning paradigm.
* co-first authors
[15] Van Hoey, Thomas. Onomatopoeia in Mandarin Chinese. In Lívia Körtvélyessy (ed.) Handbook of onomatapoeia.
Conferences
Invited talks
[16] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2019. Defining Chinese ideophones: A family of constructions. International Workshop on Mimetics (Ideophones, Expressives) III: Crucibles of Mimetics. Nagoya: Nanzan University. 3 August 2019. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651896
[17] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2017. Chinese ideophones in historical corpora: A case study of mental space markers. Workshop on Mimetics II: New approaches to old questions. Nagoya: Nanzan University. 11 November 2017. Funding: MOST-106-2922-I-002-596. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5830341
Theme sessions
[18] Dingemanse, Mark, Arie Verhagen, Jonas Nölle & Thomas Van Hoey. 2019. Integrating iconicity: Recent work and future directions. ICLC 15 [International Cognitive Linguistics Conference], Nishinomiya: Kwansei Gakuin University. 6-11 August 2019. https://iclc2019.site/.
Conference presentations (oral)
[19] Van Hoey, Thomas & Iju Hsu. 2020. Chinese ideophones in advertisements and social media: Motivated by multimodal metaphors. RaAM 13 [Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor] Virtual. Hamar: Inland Norway University. 18-21 June 2020. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651890
[20] Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2020. From ideational to interpersonal: A behavioral profile analysis of qǐlái 起來 in Modern Mandarin. CLDC 10 [Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition]. Taipei: National Taiwan University. 1-2 May 2020. https://sites.google.com/view/cldc10 (cancelled due to corona virus)
[21] Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2019. Reduplication as a trigger of intersubjectivity: Mandarin Chinese ideophones and reduplication in the CHILDES corpora. ICLC 15 [International Cognitive Linguistics Conference], Nishinomiya: Kwansei Gakuin University. 6-11 August 2019. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651902
[22] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2019. Radiant suns, burning fires and brilliant flowers: The onomasiology and radical support of Chinese literary LIGHT ideophones. ICLC 15 [International Cognitive Linguistics Conference], Nishinomiya: Kwansei Gakuin University. 6-11 August 2019. Funding: NTU, College of Liberal Arts. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652445
[23] Van Hoey, Thomas & Arthur Lewis Thompson. 2019. Bridging phonology, meaning, and written form across time: Introducing a database of Chinese literary ideophones — CHIDEOD. ILL 12 [International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature], Lund: Lund University. 3-5 May 2019. Funding: MOST-108-2922-I-002-198. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651899
[24] Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2018. All that glitters is not gold: Prototypical semantic change in shiny Literary Chinese ideophones. ICPEAL 17 [International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages]-CLDC 9 [Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition]. Taipei: National Taiwan University. 19-21 October 2018. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652544
[25] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2016. Ideophones in Old Chinese: The case of the Shijing 詩經. ISACG [International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Grammar] 9. Berlin: Humboldt University. 29-30 July 2016. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651875
[26] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2016. A diachronic analysis of ideophones in Chinese. Summer school in Chinese Digital Humanities. Leiden: Leiden University. 6-9 July 2016. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652508
[27] Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2016. The distribution of ideophones in Tang poems: A variationist perspective. CLDC [Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition] 8. Taipei: National Taiwan University.13-14 May 2016. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651824
Conference presentations (posters)
[28] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2018. The blending of bending: Worldbuilding in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. RaAM [Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor] 12. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 27-30 June 2018. Funding: MOST-107-2922-I-002-237. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652460
[29] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2017. The thunder rolls: Iconicity and ideophones in Chinese meteorlogical expressions. CLS-MPI Iconicity Focus Group Workshop: Types of Iconicity in Language Use, Development and Processing. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. 6-7 July 2017. Funding: NTU, College of Liberal Arts. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652526
[30] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2016. Ideophones in Premodern Chinese: Revisiting Dingemanse’s implicational hierarchy (poster). Mimetics in Japanese and other languages in the world (日本語と世界諸言語のオノマトペ). Tachikawa: NINJAL. 17-18 December 2016. Funding: MOST-105-2922-I-002-682. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652514
Departmental lectures
[31] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2021. Tuples and prototypes of collocate-ideophone constructions like ABB in Manarin Chinese. VLT talks. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong. 29 June 2021.
[32] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2017. A semantic map for ideophones: From an implicational hierarchy to the spinning top model. Brown Bag Lectures. Taipei: National Taiwan University. 26 April 2017.
Tutorials
[33] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2019. R bootcamp for lexical semanticists. Introduction to wrangling raw data to formats useable for further analysis using R. Seminar on Language and Culture 語言與文化專題研究.Taipei: National Taiwan University. 5 lectures during November 2019. blogpost
Broader audiences
[34] Van Hoey, Thomas & CJ Young. 2019. Language, culture, and cognition. Summer training camp for Taiwanese and Hong Kong high school representatives in the International Linguistics Olympiad. Taipei: Academia Sinica. 17 July 2019.
[35] Van Hoey, Thomas. 2018. Austronesian languages. Summer training camp for Taiwanese high school representatives in the International Linguistics Olympiad. Chiayi: National Chungcheng University. 19 July 2018.
Funding
Fellowships
- 2019-2020 NTU, Financial Assistance Grant for International Students
- 2018-2019 NTU, Financial Assistance Grant for International Students
- 2015-2018 NTU, Research Fellowship for Outstanding International Doctoral Students
- 2012-2013 Hanban scholarship
Travel grants
- 2019 NTU, College of Liberal Arts
- 2019 MOST-108-2922-I-002-198
- 2018 MOST-107-2922-I-002-237
- 2017 NTU, College of Liberal Arts
- 2016 MOST-105-2922-I-002-682
Teaching
English conversation (BA2) Applied Foreign Languages, Tatung University 大同大學 2019-2020
Consultancies
Premodern Japanese grammar for Sterk, Darryl. 2020. Indigenous cultural translation: A thick description of Seediq Bale. New York: Routledge.
Membership
- International Cognitive Linguistics Association
- Researching and Applying Metaphors
- Linguistics Society of Taiwan
- European Association of Chinese Studies
Previous employment
Research and Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University 2019-2020 Contemporary online language variation: A case study of Internet public opinion analysis, research assistent, PI Chiarung Lu (MOST 108-2410-H-002-059)
Research Assistant, National Taiwan Normal University 2019-2020
Assisting in Formosa-related newspaper project, PI Ann Heylen
Research and Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University 2016-2019
Assisting in courses and research, for Chiarung Lu
Teaching Assistant, English summer camp at Wesley Girls’ High School (Taipei), 2018
organized by the Language Training & Testing Center at National Taiwan University
Research Assistant for the Formosan Spoken Corpus, National Taiwan University 2017-2018
Transcribing Isbukun Bunun, PI Li-May Sung
Dutch translator of Chinese short stories, babel101.com 2014-2016
Freelance Chinese-Dutch translator and interpreter, Judicial Court of Leuven 2014-2016
Assistant, East-Asian Library (University of Leuven) 2014-2015
Freelance translator Dutch-Chinese, Expat Insurances 2012-2013
Languages
Active: Dutch, English, Chinese, French
Passive: Japanese, German, Premodern Chinese
Basic knowledge: Isbukun Bunun (Austronesian)
Service
- Sinalumni (alumni association of Sinology students) 2015-ongoing management of membership database and coordinating KU Leuven Connect
Reviewing
- Cognitive Linguistics
- PLoS
- Glossa
- Handbook of Cognitive Semantics
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Mapping China Journal
Conference organisation
ICPEAL 17 - CLDC 9 2018
International Conference for the Processing of East Asian Languages and Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/icpeal2018cldc/ Role: coordinator of the student committee responsible for organizing the joint conference
Technological knowledge
- Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) and open source variants
- (typesetting)
- Database construction and management
- Application deployment with Shiny
- R, Python (statistical research)
- Psychopy3
- Experimental design and corpus research
Other awards and certificates
- Intermediate level, Isbukun Bunun Proficiency Test 2018
- 1st place at Hackathon Taiwanese Linguistics Olympiad 2017
- HSK 6 (Chinese Proficiency Test, level 6) 2013
- HSK 5 (Chinese Proficiency Test, level 5) 2013
- 3rd place, Chinese calligraphy competiton with hard pen for Belgian university students 2011
- HSK 3 (Chinese Proficiency Test, level 3) 2010
- Finalist, HUB (Brussels) Language Competition, French 2009
- Finalist, Olyfran (French language competition) 2007