CV

Author

Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智

Published

October 1, 2024

Keywords

R Markdown, academic CV, template

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