D Tay
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 14559 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Tay |
| NOMBRES | D |
| APELLIDO | Tay |
| FIRMA | TAY D |
| AFILIACIONES | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9484-6266 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Climate change discourse in China Meteorological News
This study examines the thematic and discursive features of China's climate change discourse through an analysis of 9,018 articles from China Meteorological News (CMN) published between 2011 and 2025. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines BERTopic, a topic modeling method built on Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), with the discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis, supplemented by the KH Cod…
Time Series
In the broad field of applied linguistics, language data captured sequentially at regular time intervals has led to the emergence of various instances of time series data. Nonetheless, a noticeable gap remains in the explicit application of time series analysis (TSA) methods in existing research. This article posits that such application holds promise across the expansive scope of applied linguistics, including domains such as second language acq…
Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings
Cross-domain mapping (CDM) is the cognitive structure that connects entities, elements, or attributes in two different conceptual domains. In existing cognitive linguistic literature, CDMs were mainly examined in metaphorical expressions; little attention has been paid to literal language. This paper explores literal and metaphorical CDMs in seven psychotherapeutic sessions. In the sessions, transference, a psychological process in which current …
Discursive practices of blame during the Covid-19 pandemic on Chinese Weibo
The participatory affordance of web platforms has encouraged ordinary users’ participation in sociopolitical issues and opened up new channels for public opinion expression, particularly to blame authorities for their perceived wrongdoings. The current critical discourse analysis study contributes to this scholarship by investigating bottom-up discursive practices on user-generated texts on Weibo, the most widely used social media website in Chin…
Delivering reassurance in online medical consultations
La circulation du discours managérial via les « instruments d’action publique
En 2018, le système scolaire belge francophone a pleinement basculé dans un pilotage par les résultats inspiré des principes du New Public Management. L’instrument au cœur de cette réforme est le plan de pilotage à travers lequel chaque école doit définir des objectifs et des stratégies pour les atteindre. Cet article examine la façon dont cet instrument participe à la circulation du discours managérial dans l’École, et à sa pénétration dans les …
Use of Offensive Animal Metaphor as an Interactional Activity in Online Forum Discussions
This paper investigates offensive animal metaphors in blog comments about the management of donations of money and medical relief during the coronavirus pandemic in China. Rather than understanding the metaphorical usage of language as a cognitive process, we consider its situational usage as a social action and invoke insights from Conversation Analysis. Based on data retrieved from Sina Weibo, we show how discussants use animal metaphors to acc…
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach
The qualitative nature of co-deployed or “associated” metaphorical source domains in discourse has been extensively researched, often in terms of whether they share common conceptual roots. There are however few empirical studies on the strength of these associations and their implications. In mental healthcare activities like psychological interviews and counseling, for example, strongly associated sources may suggest unique “conceptual assembla…
Metaphorical language and psychopathological symptoms
This study establishes symptom-level metaphor usage patterns as a previously overlooked but interesting avenue in trauma evaluation, treatment, and research. While the study is confined to a single context, it nevertheless reveals the potential for metaphor research findings to be incorporated as useful materials in psychology education and therapist training
Media representations of China amid Covid-19
Although there has been an increasing number of studies investigating media representations of the COVID-19 outbreak around the world, less international attention has been given to Chinese media outlets' coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak than that of their western counterparts. This study employs corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to investigate how China is linguistically represented in a state-run English-language news media. The anal…
We Need to Go Back Home (to) the Philippines Healthy
Diagnoses of breast cancer are continuing to increase in the Philippines, but little is known about incidence rates among the significant number of Filipino women working abroad as migrant domestic workers (MDWs). These women are often the main income providers for their families, and their ability to work depends upon their physical health and strength. In this article, we use interpretive phenomenological analysis to explore the experiences of …
Individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video Ads
Reliable identification of metaphors from multimodal discourse has attracted scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video ads is underexplored from an empirical perspective. This includes the extent to which individual differences influence metaphor identification in multimodal discourse and how the individual differences result in divergent identification. Our study…
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners
Offensive, hateful comment
Using data from user comments to the official social networking account of the Hubei Red Cross Foundation on a participatory web platform, this study attends to the offensive and hateful comments produced by ordinary Internet users to blame the elite authorities for their malfeasance in managing the donation during the COVID-19 in China. Drawing on Discursive Psychology, we focus on the rhetorical strategies that users employ to legitimise their …
Discretion
This paper explores the functions of Chinese final particle ou in both TCU-final and non-TCU-final positions in medical advice-giving. Using Praat, we differentiated phonologically marked and unmarked ou and analyzed their functions in both doctor and patient speech. The findings suggest a difference in participants’ use of ou : while non-TCU-final ou occurs mainly in the patient speech to mark newsworthiness and call for the doctor’s attention, …
Is the Social Unrest like Covid-19 or Is Covid-19 like the Social Unrest? A Case Study of Source-target Reversibility
202304 bcww
Automated lexical and time series modelling for critical discourse research
Modelability across time as a signature of identity construction on YouTube
A multifactorial analysis of metaphors in political discourse
The rising prominence of women in politics has sparked a growing interest in comparing the language of male and female politicians. Many researchers have explored whether gender in politics has had an impact on their metaphor styles. While these studies have been oriented qualitatively and have concentrated on the two-way interaction between metaphor and gender, the possibility that metaphor and gender may interact with other additional factors i…
Surveying views of metaphor vs. literal language in psychotherapy
Five key therapeutic functions of metaphors are often discussed by psychotherapists. They (i) help clients express emotions and experiences, (ii) help therapists and clients explain difficult concepts, (iii) introduce new frames of reference, (iv) help work through client resistance, and (v) build a collaborative relationship between therapists and clients. Research on how these functions are enacted in psychotherapy talk tends to assume that the…
A mixed-method analysis of image-schematic metaphors in describing anger, anxiety, and depression
The importance of metaphor in psychotherapy and counseling has been shown by a growing number of studies. Image-schematic metaphors, which derive from experience of sensory processes and space, are potential resources for conceptualizing major themes like anger, anxiety, and depression in therapeutic discourse. To test the potential correlation between image-schematic metaphors and the themes of anger, anxiety, and depression, this study employs …
Critical, conceptual, and collaborative perspectives on metaphor and mental health
202304 bcww
Affective Engagement in Metaphorical versus Literal Communication Styles in Counseling
Metaphor theory bears many implications for counseling processes, but metaphor in extended counseling talk is seldom evaluated. This article reports an exploratory skin conductance and discourse analysis of metaphorical versus literal communication styles in facilitating affective engagement over time. After background interaction with the counselor-experimenter, role-playing clients (N = 60) were asked either a metaphorical or literal stimulus q…
Affective and Discursive Outcomes of Symbolic Interpretations in Picture-Based Counseling
The relationship between symbolic expression and affect tends to be investigated from the perspective of recipients in contexts like media, politics, and advertising. A more producer-centric context is picture-based counseling (PBC) where clients are prompted by counselors to interpret pictures creatively as part of the treatment process. Nevertheless, the affective and discursive outcomes of these interpretations remain poorly understood. This p…
Exploring the Metaphor–Body–Psychotherapy Relationship
This article explores the interfaces between two constructs in linguistics and psychotherapy—metaphor and the human body—as a means of illustrating meaningful exchange between linguistic and mental health research. Three distinctly well-motivated research strands with underexplored overlaps: (a) the theoretical relationship between metaphor and the body, (b) the use and management of metaphors in therapy, and (c) the body as a therapeutic resourc…
Automated lexical and time series modelling for critical discourse research
Metaphor construction in online motivational posters
Modelability across time as a signature of identity construction on YouTube
Time series analysis of discourse
Time series analysis (TSA) is a technique to describe the structure and forecast values of a particular variable based on a series of sequential observations. While commonly used in finance and engineering to understand structural changes across time, its applicability to humanistic processes like discourse is less clear. This article demonstrates the feasibility and complementary use of TSA with a case study of metaphor use in psychotherapy sess…
We Need to Go Back Home (to) the Philippines Healthy
Diagnoses of breast cancer are continuing to increase in the Philippines, but little is known about incidence rates among the significant number of Filipino women working abroad as migrant domestic workers (MDWs). These women are often the main income providers for their families, and their ability to work depends upon their physical health and strength. In this article, we use interpretive phenomenological analysis to explore the experiences of …
Discourse markers as metaphor signalling devices in psychotherapeutic talk
Media representations of China amid Covid-19
Although there has been an increasing number of studies investigating media representations of the COVID-19 outbreak around the world, less international attention has been given to Chinese media outlets' coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak than that of their western counterparts. This study employs corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to investigate how China is linguistically represented in a state-run English-language news media. The anal…
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners
Therapy Is a Journey as a Discourse Metaphor
Although much has been written about the use of metaphors during psychotherapy sessions, the complementary question of how the therapeutic process might itself be metaphorically conceptualized is seldom asked. This article adopts the notion of ‘discourse metaphors’ (Zinken et al., 2008) and provides a case study of the metaphor THERAPY IS A JOURNEY across various levels of psychotherapeutic discourse, including the formulation of theoretical cons…
Revisiting metaphor types as discourse strategies
A question not often asked in metaphor research is the extent to which different methodologies, aimed at investigating different aspects of metaphor, can be brought together productively. One recent exception is Wee (Language in Society 34: 219–238, 2005a), which recasts models of metaphor processing as production strategies facilitating discourse objectives characteristic of particular discourse genres. This article complements and refines Wee's…
Therapy Is a Journey as a Discourse Metaphor
Although much has been written about the use of metaphors during psychotherapy sessions, the complementary question of how the therapeutic process might itself be metaphorically conceptualized is seldom asked. This article adopts the notion of ‘discourse metaphors’ (Zinken et al., 2008) and provides a case study of the metaphor THERAPY IS A JOURNEY across various levels of psychotherapeutic discourse, including the formulation of theoretical cons…
Discourse markers as metaphor signalling devices in psychotherapeutic talk
At the heart of cognition, communication, and language
Cognitive, communicative, and linguistic forces have been theorized to inhere in all metaphor use in real world contexts, with Steen (2011) describing these forces as constitutive and interacting ‘dimensions’ of metaphor. This paper proposes that cognition, communication, and language should be seen not just as crucial dimensions of individual metaphoric utterances, but also of their circumstances and contexts of use. In other words, purposive re…
Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition
Metaphor in case study articles on Chinese university counseling service websites
This paper investigates metaphor use in case study articles (CSAs), which share knowledge and describe counseling processes, on a Chinese university counseling centre website. Metaphors from 27 CSAs were coded under the variables textual position, target, and source. Chi-squared tests of independence reveal a moderate association between metaphor targets and metaphor position within CSAs(Cramer’s V = 0.3897), but not between sources and position(…
Metaphor and the notion of control in trauma talk
Metaphor use in psychotherapy practice has been influenced by conceptual metaphor theory and the “internal target–external source” assumption, where targets comprise abstract therapeutic issues, while sources comprise concrete conceptual materials external to the therapeutic setting. The relevance of metaphor is hence questionable in trauma talk, since traumatic events involve intense bodily experiences which are already concrete and do not requi…
Metaphor and Psychological Transference
Psychotherapy is a mental health activity where therapists assist clients through verbal interaction. The phenomenon of transference, where clients superimpose their past experiences onto present life situations, occurs frequently in psychotherapy, and may have varied effects on treatment outcome depending on how it is managed or “worked through.” While previous work has linked transference to metaphor based on their theoretical similarity, this …
Exploring the Metaphor–Body–Psychotherapy Relationship
This article explores the interfaces between two constructs in linguistics and psychotherapy—metaphor and the human body—as a means of illustrating meaningful exchange between linguistic and mental health research. Three distinctly well-motivated research strands with underexplored overlaps: (a) the theoretical relationship between metaphor and the body, (b) the use and management of metaphors in therapy, and (c) the body as a therapeutic resourc…
Metaphors of movement in psychotherapy talk
Time series analysis of discourse
Time series analysis (TSA) is a technique to describe the structure and forecast values of a particular variable based on a series of sequential observations. While commonly used in finance and engineering to understand structural changes across time, its applicability to humanistic processes like discourse is less clear. This article demonstrates the feasibility and complementary use of TSA with a case study of metaphor use in psychotherapy sess…
Metaphor construction in online motivational posters
Affective and Discursive Outcomes of Symbolic Interpretations in Picture-Based Counseling
The relationship between symbolic expression and affect tends to be investigated from the perspective of recipients in contexts like media, politics, and advertising. A more producer-centric context is picture-based counseling (PBC) where clients are prompted by counselors to interpret pictures creatively as part of the treatment process. Nevertheless, the affective and discursive outcomes of these interpretations remain poorly understood. This p…
A multifactorial analysis of metaphors in political discourse
The rising prominence of women in politics has sparked a growing interest in comparing the language of male and female politicians. Many researchers have explored whether gender in politics has had an impact on their metaphor styles. While these studies have been oriented qualitatively and have concentrated on the two-way interaction between metaphor and gender, the possibility that metaphor and gender may interact with other additional factors i…
Surveying views of metaphor vs. literal language in psychotherapy
Five key therapeutic functions of metaphors are often discussed by psychotherapists. They (i) help clients express emotions and experiences, (ii) help therapists and clients explain difficult concepts, (iii) introduce new frames of reference, (iv) help work through client resistance, and (v) build a collaborative relationship between therapists and clients. Research on how these functions are enacted in psychotherapy talk tends to assume that the…
A mixed-method analysis of image-schematic metaphors in describing anger, anxiety, and depression
The importance of metaphor in psychotherapy and counseling has been shown by a growing number of studies. Image-schematic metaphors, which derive from experience of sensory processes and space, are potential resources for conceptualizing major themes like anger, anxiety, and depression in therapeutic discourse. To test the potential correlation between image-schematic metaphors and the themes of anger, anxiety, and depression, this study employs …
Critical, conceptual, and collaborative perspectives on metaphor and mental health
202304 bcww
Affective Engagement in Metaphorical versus Literal Communication Styles in Counseling
Metaphor theory bears many implications for counseling processes, but metaphor in extended counseling talk is seldom evaluated. This article reports an exploratory skin conductance and discourse analysis of metaphorical versus literal communication styles in facilitating affective engagement over time. After background interaction with the counselor-experimenter, role-playing clients (N = 60) were asked either a metaphorical or literal stimulus q…
Discretion
This paper explores the functions of Chinese final particle ou in both TCU-final and non-TCU-final positions in medical advice-giving. Using Praat, we differentiated phonologically marked and unmarked ou and analyzed their functions in both doctor and patient speech. The findings suggest a difference in participants’ use of ou : while non-TCU-final ou occurs mainly in the patient speech to mark newsworthiness and call for the doctor’s attention, …
Is the Social Unrest like Covid-19 or Is Covid-19 like the Social Unrest? A Case Study of Source-target Reversibility
202304 bcww
Automated lexical and time series modelling for critical discourse research
Modelability across time as a signature of identity construction on YouTube
Individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video Ads
Reliable identification of metaphors from multimodal discourse has attracted scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video ads is underexplored from an empirical perspective. This includes the extent to which individual differences influence metaphor identification in multimodal discourse and how the individual differences result in divergent identification. Our study…
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners
Offensive, hateful comment
Using data from user comments to the official social networking account of the Hubei Red Cross Foundation on a participatory web platform, this study attends to the offensive and hateful comments produced by ordinary Internet users to blame the elite authorities for their malfeasance in managing the donation during the COVID-19 in China. Drawing on Discursive Psychology, we focus on the rhetorical strategies that users employ to legitimise their …
Psychology (29 obras) · Linguistics (27 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (26 obras) · Metaphor (21 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (17 obras) · Computer Science (16 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Social Psychology (15 obras) · Cognitive psychology (14 obras) · Philosophy (14 obras)