SHORT BIO — Corpus cognitive linguist. Teacher. Philosophical Buddhist. Derridean. Material realist. Monist. Ontological reductionist. Predicate nominalist. Presentist. Pan-naturalist. Fictionalist. Object Metaphor theorist. Lives in Japan. Father. Trilingual.
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FULL BIO
🎓 Corpus cognitive linguist. Does research on 1) L2 vocabulary; 2) metaphorical function words, conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and second language acquisition; 3) Zen and language; 4) object metaphor theory.
👨🏫 Teaches English and does applied linguistics at a university in Japan.
☸️ Chose to become a Buddhist in my teens and entered a Zen temple in Japan in my 20s. My outlook takes Theravada and Buddhist revisionism and historicism into account.
🤔 Likes to talk Western philosophy, theory, poststructuralism, postmodernism, deconstructionism, postcolonialism, Buddhism, Eastern thought, language, culture and society.
🌏 Canada 🇨🇦 Malaysia 🇲🇾 Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Australia 🇦🇺 Japan 🇯🇵.
👨👩👧👦 Father. GenX.
🗣 Speaks English, Japanese and Cantonese.
🏠 Club collector. Founder of the “The Space Bar”, “Language in the Mind”, “Metaphor”, “Eightfold”, “Theory”, “Object Metaphor”, “Re:”, “Somethingness” clubs.
🔗 signature103.blog
🔗 ghoti.blog
🔗 theoria.blog
💙 Also loves farming, photography, film, art, sculpture, literature, music, singing, sustainability, games, sport, social media, life, everything.
📎 I/you/we/you. ENFP-A (diplomat, campaigner, assertive).
Invited by: J-L H.
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