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I’m a PhD candidate in the research group of language use and cognition. My PhD project focuses on abstract concepts and co-speech gestures. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods and the corpus-analytical approach, my dissertations contributes to the following research questions: To what extent abstract thought is related to our bodily experiences? What is the role of embodiment in structuring abstract concepts? To what extent are gestures co-occurring with concrete and abstract meaning related to, or different from each other?
This project is being supervised by Alan Cienki (https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/alan-cienki), Christian Burgers (https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/christian-burgers), and Gudrun Reijnierse https://www.ru.nl/english/people/reijnierse-w/)
My research interests include embodied cognition, simulation semantics, conceptual metaphor, co-speech gesture, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, usage-based linguistics, and quantitative empirical methods involving corpora.
Education
2015-present PhD candidate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2013-2015 Research Master’s in Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2011- 2013 Master in English Composition: Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language, California State University (San Bernardino), United States
2007- 2011 BA in English, Xi’an International Studies University, China
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Research Output 2014 2017
A corpus approach to studying words accompanied by representational gestures: A look at grammatical categories and semantic fields
Tong, Y., 9 Jun 2017, The International Conference on Multimodal Communication: Developing New Theories and Methods. Osnabrück University.Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Action, metaphor and gesture: A comparison between referential gestures depicting concrete or abstract actions
Tong, Y. & Cienki, A. J., Jun 2016.Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper › Academic
Referential gestures and physical actions: A form-based analysis
Tong, Y. & Cienki, A. J., 18 Jul 2016.Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper › Academic
Motion, metaphor and gesture: A comparison between referential gestures referring to concrete and abstract motion: Embedded in the theme session: Meaning Making in Multimodal Discourse and its Relevance for Cognitive Linguistic Theory
Tong, Y. & Cienki, A. J., 25 Jul 2015, The 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC13), Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
MOVEMENT metaphors in office hours
Tong, Y. & Steen, G., 20 Jun 2014, The 10th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor, Cagliari, Italy.Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review