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Prof AHRENS Kathleen
Head of Language Centre / Professor

Qualifications: University of California at San Diego, M.A. (Linguistics), Ph.D (Linguistics)
National Taiwan University, M.A. (Chinese)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.A. (Asian Languages & Literatures)
Telephone: 3411 7589
Email: ahrens@hkbu.edu.hk
Office: OEE1202
Homepage: http://www.kathleenahrens.com


RESEARCH INTERESTS
Understanding lexical meaning, including meaning in context and the lexical processing of meaning in the brain, has been the driving impetus behind much of my research. In earlier research, I focused on the construction of a psycholinguistic theory of sense processing, and the construction of a cognitive model to explain conceptual and novel metaphor processing. My current research direction now takes context into account, by examining the lexical choices and conceptual metaphors used by speakers of different political backgrounds in different political genres. This area of research contributes to understanding why a speaker makes certain lexical choices and how these choices reflect his or her world conceptualization.

In addition to my research in cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, I also explore stylistic issues in children's literature. As a creative writer myself, language choice and stylistic concerns are always at the forefront of any textual analysis. To this end, I have given lectures on narratology, picture book evaluation, picture book use in language teaching, and textual analysis of picture books.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS OR CREATIVE WORKS

Edited Volumes | Journal Articles | Book Chapters | Book Reviews | Conference Proceedings | Conference Papers

Edited Volumes

  1. Ahrens, Kathleen. (Editor). 2009. Politics, Gender, and Conceptual Metaphors. Basingstroke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan.

Journal Articles

  1. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2012. Finding What You Expect to See: Theoretical Modeling in Psycholinguistics. Journal of Social Sciences, 8(3): 372-380.
  2. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2011. A Worldwide Network for Children’s Writers and Illustrators. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 8(3): 312-320.
  3. Hong, Jia-Fei, Sue-Jin Ker, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2011. Sense Prediction Study: Two corpus-driven Linguistic Approaches. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language (IJCPOL), 23(3): 229-242.
  4. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles and Kathleen Ahrens. 2009. Ambiguity Advantage Revisited: Two Meanings are Better than One When Accessing Chinese Nouns. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 39(1): 1-19.
  5. Gong, Shu-Ping, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2008. Chinese Word Sketch and Mapping Principles: A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors Using the BUILDING Source Domain. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 21(2), 3-17.
  6. Hong, Jia-fei, Chu-Ren Huang, and Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. Event Selection and Coercion of Two Verbs of Ingestion: A MARVS perspective. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 21(2), 31-42.
  7. Chung, Siaw-Fong and Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. MARVS Revisited: Operationalizing Sense Frequency and MI Values. Language and Linguistics, 9(2), 415-434.
  8. Lu, Louis & Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. Ideological Influences on BUILDING metaphors in Taiwanese Presidential Speeches. Discourse and Society, 19(3), 383-408.
  9. Gong, Shu-Ping & Kathleen Ahrens. 2007. Processing Conceptual Metaphors in On-Going Discourse. Metaphor & Symbol, 22(4), 313-330.
  10. Ahrens, Kathleen, Ho-Ling Liu, Chia-Ying Lee, Shu-Ping Gong, Shin-Yi Fang and Yuan-Yu Hsu. 2007. Functional MRI of Conventional and Anomalous Metaphors in Mandarin Chinese. Brain and Language, 100(2), 163-171.
  11. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2006. Using a Small Corpus to Test Linguistic Hypotheses: Evaluating 'People' in the State of the Union Addresses. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 11(4), 377-392.
  12. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2006. The Effect of Visual Target Presentation Times on Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. Language and Linguistics, 7(3), 677-696.
  13. Chung, Siaw-Fong, Kathleen Ahrens, Chu-Ren Huang. 2005. Source Domains as Concept Domains in Metaphorical Expressions. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 10(4), 553-570.
  14. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2003. Verbal Integration: The Interaction of Participant Roles and Sentential Argument Structure. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32(5), 497-516.
  15. Ahrens, Kathleen, Chu-Ren Huang, and Shirley Chuang. 2003. Sense and Meaning Facets in Verbal Semantics: A MARVS Perspective. Language and Linguistics, 4(3), 468-484.
  16. Huang, Chu-Ren & Kathleen Ahrens. 2003. Individuals, Kinds and Events: Classifier Coercion of Noun. Language Sciences, 25(4), 353 - 373.
  17. Ahrens, Kathleen & Chu-Ren Huang. 2002. Time Passing is Motion. Language & Linguistics, 3(3), 491-519.
  18. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2001. On-line Sentence Comprehension of Ambiguous Verbs in Mandarin. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 10, 337-358.
  19. Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens, Li-Li Chang, Keh-Jiann Chen, Mei-Chun Liu, Mei-Chih Tsai. 2000. The Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics: From Semantic to Argument Structure. In Yung-O Biq. (Ed.) Special Issue on Chinese Verbal Semantics. Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing, 5(1), 19-46.
  20. Huang, Chu-Ren and Kathleen Ahrens. 1999. The Function and Category of gei in Mandarin Ditransitive Constructions. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 27(2), 1-26.
  21. Ahrens, Kathleen, Li-Li Chang, Kei-Jiann Chen, Chu-Ren Huang. 1998. Meaning Representation and Meaning Instantiation for Chinese Nominals. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 3(1), 45-60.
  22. Huang, Chu-Ren, Kathleen Ahrens, & Keh-jiann Chen. 1998. A Data-driven Approach to the Mental Lexicon: Two Studies on Chinese Corpus Linguistics. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, 69(1), 151-180.
  23. Huang, Chu-Ren, Zhao-ming Gao, Kathleen Ahrens, & Wen-Jen Wei. 1998. Argument Structure and Empty-Expletives: A Study of Event-Evaluative Predicates in Chinese. Benjamin K. T'sou ed. Studia Linguistica Serica, 401-414.
  24. Tsai, Mei-Chih, Chu-Ren Huang, Keh-Jiann Chen, Kathleen Ahrens. 1998. Towards a Representation of Verbal Semantics - An Approach Based on Near Synonyms. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 3(1), 61-74.
  25. Ahrens, Kathleen and David Swinney. 1995. Participant Roles and the Processing of Verbs during Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24(6), 533-547.
  26. Ahrens, Kathleen. 1994. Classifier Production in Normals and Aphasics. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 22(2), 203-248.
  27. Lin, Ying-chin and Kathleen Ahrens. 1992. Research on a Tangut Translation of "The Forest of Classes" (In Chinese). The Continent Magazine, 84(5), 1-8.
Book Chapters
  1. Ahrens, Kathleen. Accepted. Semantic Processing: Access, Ambiguity, and Metaphor. In William S-Y Wang and Chaofen Sun. (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. Ahrens, Kathleen and Chu-Ren Huang. Accepted. Classifiers and Measure Words. In Chu-Ren Huang and Shi-ting Xu. (ed.), The Cambridge Grammar of Chinese Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2011. Picture Books: Where Literature Appreciation Begins. In Bettina Kuemmerling-Meibauer (ed.), Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 77-89.
  4. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2011. Examining Conceptual Metaphor Models Through Lexical Frequency Patterns: A Case Study of U.S. Presidential Speeches. In Hans-Joerg Schmid (Ed.), Windows to the Mind. Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. Pp. 167-184.
  5. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2010. Mapping Principles for Conceptual Metaphors. In Cameron Lynne, Alice Deignan, Graham Low, Zazie Todd (Eds.), Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp.185-207.
  6. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2009. Conceptual Metaphors. (In Chinese). In I-wen Su and Yung-O Biq (Eds.), Language, Culture, and Cognition, pp. 55-81. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press.
  7. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2009. Analysing Conceptual Metaphors in Political Language. In Ahrens, K. (editor), Politics, Gender, and Conceptual Metaphors, pp. 1-5. Basingstroke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan.
  8. Ahrens, Kathleen and Sophia Lee. 2009. Gender versus Politics: When Conceptual Models Collide in the U.S. Senate. In Ahrens, K. (editor), Politics, Gender, and Conceptual Metaphors, pp. 62-82. Basingstroke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan.
  9. Huang, Chu-Ren, Siaw-Fong Chung and Kathleen Ahrens. 2006. An Ontology-based Exploration of Knowledge Systems for Metaphor. In Kishore, Rajiv, Ram Ramesh, and Raj Sharman (Eds.), Ontologies: A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems. Volume 14. Berlin: Springer. pp. 489-517.
  10. Lin, Chienjer Charles & Kathleen Ahrens. 2005. How Many Meanings Does A Word Have? Meaning Estimation in Chinese and English. In James Menitt and William S-Y Wang (Eds.), Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics. pp. 437-464. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
  11. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2002. Timing Issues in Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. In J. Nakayama (Ed.), Sentence Processing in East Asian Languages, pp.1-26. Stanford: CSLI.
  12. Ahrens, Kathleen. 1999. The Mutability of Noun and Verb Meaning. In Y. Yin et al. (Eds), Chinese Languages and Linguistics V: Interactions in Language, pp. 335-548. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
  13. Chu-Ren Huang, Chang, Li-Ping, Kathleen Ahrens, Chao-Jan Chen. 1999. The Interaction of Constructional Meaning and Lexical Semantics. [In Chinese] In Y. Yin et al. (Eds), Chinese Languages and Linguistics V: Interactions in Language. pp. 413-438. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
  14. Ahrens, Kathleen. 1998. Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Language, Tasks and Timing. In Dieter Hillert (Ed.), Syntax and Semantics, Volume 31. Sentence Processing: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, pp. 11-31. Academic Press.

Book Reviews

  1. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2012. Book Review of Metaphor Analysis: Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities (Studies in Applied Linguistics), by Lynne Cameron and Robert Maslen (Editor) (London, UK: Equinox Publishing). Metaphor and Symbol, 27(3): 259-261.
  2. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2011. Book Review of Context and Connection in Metaphor: How Simple Ideas Shape Human Experience, by David Ritchie (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan). Metaphor and Symbol, 26(3), 240-242.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Lee, Sophia Yat Mei, Daming Dai, Shoushan Li and Kathleen Ahrens. 2011. Extracting Pseudo-labeled Samples for Sentiment Classification using Emotion Keywords. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2011 (IALP 2011). November 15-17, Penang, Malaysia: University Sains Malaysia. Pp. 127-130.
  2. Gong, Shu-ping and Kathleen Ahrens. 2011. The Role of Prior Knowledge in Vague Text Comprehension. In the Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2011). September 8-9, Taipei, Taiwan: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Pp. 252-264.
  3. Hong, Jia-Fei, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2011. Event Structure of Transitive Verb: A MARVS perspective (及物動詞的事件結構：以 MARVS 理論出發). In the Proceedings of the 12th Chinese Lexical Semantic Workshop (CLSW 2011). May 3-5, Taipei: National Taiwan University. Pp. 108-115.
  4. Hong, Jia-Fei, Sue-Jin Ker, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2010. Using Corpus-based Linguistic Approaches in Sense Prediction Study. In the Proceedings of The 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 24). November 4-7, Sendai, Japan: Tohoku University. Pp. 399-407.
  5. Hong, Jia-Fei, Sue-Jin Ker, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2010. Sense Prediction Study: Two Corpus-driven Linguistic Approaches. In the Proceedings of the 11th Chinese Lexical Semantic Workshop (CLSW 2010). May 21-23, Suzhou, China: SooChow University. Pp. 239-246.
  6. Chung, Siaw-Fong, Kathleen Ahrens, Chung-Ping Cheng, Chu-Ren Huang and Petr Simon. 2009. Computing Thresholds of Linguistic Saliency. In the Proceedings of the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC). Seoul National University, Korea, November 1-3, pp. 126-135.
  7. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2009. Finding What You Expect to See: When methodology drives results in psycholinguistic experiments. In the Proceedings of Contextualizing and Understanding: New Advances from Multidisciplinary and Cross-cultural Approaches. National Taiwan University, Taipei, October 18-19, pp. 45-63.
  8. Hong, Jia-Fei, Sue-Jin Ker, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2009. Corpus-driven Linguistic Approaches to Sense Prediction. In the Proceedings of the 10th Chinese Lexical Semantic Workshop (CLSW 2009), July 27-31, China: Ludong University, pp 56-66.
  9. Hong, Jia-Fei, Sue-Jin Ker, Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens and Guan-Xun Li. 2009. Corpus-driven Approaches to Sense Prediction. In the Proceedings of the 10th Chinese National Conference on computational Linguistics (CNCCL 2009). Ludong University, China, July 24-26, pp 167-172.
  10. Chang, Y. J., and Ahrens, Kathleen. 2008. Towards a Model for the Prediction of Chinese Novel Verbs. In the Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC). The University of the Philippines Visayas Cebu College, November 20-22.
  11. Hong, Jia-Fei, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2008. The Polysemy of Da3: An ontology-based study. In the Proceedings of the 9th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2008). National University of Singapore, Singapore, July 13-16, pp. 51-64.
  12. Hong, Jia-Fei, Chu-Ren Huang and Kathleen Ahrens. 2007. Event Selection and Coercion of Two Verbs of Ingestion. In the Proceedings of the 8th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop 2007 (CLSW2007). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May 21-23, pp. 59-65.
  13. Hong, Jia-Fei, Chu-Ren Huang and Kathleen Ahrens. 2007. The Polysemy of Da3: An Ontology-based Lexical Semantic Study. In the Proceedigns of the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), November 1-3, Seoul National University. pp. 126-135.
  14. Chung, Siaw-Fong, Kathleen Ahrens, Chung-Ping Cheng, Chu-Ren Huang and Petr Simon. 2007. Computing Thresholds of Linguistic Saliency. In the Proceedings of the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on LanguageInformation and Computatioin (PACLIC). Novermber 1-3, Seoul National University. pp. 155-162.
  15. Hong, Jia-Fei, Chu-Ren Huang and Kathleen Ahrens. 2007. Event Selection and Coercion of Two Verbs of Ingestion. In the Proceedings of the 8th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop 2007 (CLSW 2007). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May 21-23, pp.59-65.
  16. Gong, S.-P., Ahrens, Kathleen. & Huang, C.-R. 2007. Chinese Sketch Engine and Mapping Principles: A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors Using the BUILDING Source Domain. In the Proceedings of the 8th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop 2007 (CLSW 2007). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May 21-23, pp.130-136.
  17. Chung, Siaw-Fong and Kathleen Ahrens. 2006. Source Domain Determination: WordNet-SUMO and Collocation. In the Proceedings of Theme Session of Cognitive-linguistic Approaches: What Can We Gain by Computational Treatment of Data? The Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association.
  18. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2005. People in the State of the Union: Viewing Social Change through the Eyes of Presidents. Proceedings of the 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC). Taipei: Academia Sinica. pp. 43-50.
  19. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2005. Embodying the Self: A Linguistic Analysis. In S. F. Huang (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Body & Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. National Taiwan University, Taipei. June 4-5. pp. 22(1)-22(19).
  20. Gong, S.-P and Kathleen Ahrens. 2004. Congruent and incongruent metaphorical sentences processing in discourse: A reaction-time study. In S.-F. Huang (Ed.) Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-9). Taipei: Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University. pp. 367-382.
  21. Ahrens, Kathleen, Siaw-Fong Chung and Chu-Ren Huang. 2004. From Lexical Semantics to Conceptual Metaphors: Mapping Principle Verification with WordNet and SUMO. In Ji Donghong, Lua Kim Teng, and Wang Hui (Eds.) Recent Advancement in Chinese Lexical Semantics: Proceedings of 5th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW-5). Singapore: COLIPS. pp. 99-106.
  22. Chung, Siaw-Fong, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2004. Using WordNet and SUMO to Determine Source Domains of Conceptual Metaphors. In Ji Donhong, Lua Kim Teng, and Wang Hui (Eds). Recent Advancement in Chinese Lexical Semantics: Proceedings of 5th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW-5). Singapore: COLIPS. pp. 91-98.
  23. Chung, Siaw-Fong, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang. 2004b. RECESSION: Defining Source Domains through WordNet and SUMO. In the Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK) International Conference. Volume II: General Sessions. Seoul: The Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK) and Yonsei Institute of Language and Information Science (ILIS). pp. 43-52.
  24. Chung, Siaw-Fong and Kathleen Ahrens. 2004. Teaching economy metaphors: A psycholinguistic perspective through the CMM. In the Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching, Volume 2, Taipei: ROC English Teachers’ Association-Republic of China. [In CD Rom]
  25. Chung, Siaw Fong, Chu-Ren Huang and Kathleen Ahrens. 2003.ECONOMY IS A TRANSPORTATION_DEVICE: Contrasting Representation of Source Domain Knowledge in English and Chinese. In the Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE): Upper Ontology and Natural Language Processing (UONLP) Beijing. pp. 790-796.
  26. Chung, Siaw Fong, Kathleen Ahrens and Sung Yahui. 2003. STOCK MARKETS AS OCEAN WATER: A Corpus-based, Comparative Study in Mandarin Chinese, English and Spanish. In the Proceedings of the 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Infromation and Computation (PACLIC), Singapore. pp. 124-133.
  27. Chung, Siaw Fong, Kathleen Ahrens and Huang Chu-Ren. 2003. ECONOMY IS A PERSON: A Chinese-English Corpora and Ontological-based Comparison Using the Conceptual Mapping Model. In the Proceedings of the 15th ROCLING Conference for the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, National Tsing -Hwa Universtiy, Taiwan. pp. 87-110.
  28. Ahrens, Kathleen, Chung Siaw-Fong, Huang Chu-Ren. 2003. Conceptual Metaphors: Ontology-based Representation and Corpora Driven Mapping Principles. In the Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on the Lexicon and Figurative Language. pp. 35-41.
  29. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2002. When Love is not Digested: Underlying Reasons for Source to Target Domain Pairing in the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor. In YuChau E. Hsiao (Ed.) Proceeding of the First Cognitive Linguistics Conference, pp 273-302. Taipei: Cheng-Chi University.
  30. Lai, Tzuyin, V. & Kathleen Ahrens. 2001. Mappings from the Source Domain of Plant in Mandarin Chinese. In Benjamin K. T'sou, Olivia O.Y. Kwong and Tom B.Y. Lai (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computation. City University of Hong Kong. pp. 203-209.
  31. Ahrens, Kathleen & Chu-Ren Huang. 2001. A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Synonym Pairs: An Approach based on The Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics. In Benjamin K. T'sou, Olivia O.Y. Kwong and Tom B.Y. Lai (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computation. City University of Hong Kong. pp. 27-32.
  32. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2001. Metaphor Mapping and Knowledge Representation: Principles and Processing. Proceeding of the Symposium on Selected NSC Projects in General Linguistics from 1998-2000. Taipei: National Taiwan University. pp. 281-310.
  33. Ahrens, Kathleen & Chu-Ren Huang. 2000. Time is Motion in Mandarin Chinese. Parameterizing Conceptual Metaphors. In H. Y Tai and Chang Y. L. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Chai-yi: National Chung-Cheng University. pp. 27-47.
  34. Lin, Charles & Kathleen Ahrens. 2000. Calculating the Number of Senses: Implications for Ambiguity Advantage Effect During Lexical Access. In H. Y Tai and Chang Y. L. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Chai-yi: National Chung-Cheng University. pp. 141-155.
  35. Huang, Chu-Ren & Kathleen Ahrens. 2000. The Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics. In A. Ikeya and M. Kawamori (Eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computation. Waseda University. pp. 109-119.
  36. Ahrens, Kathleen and Alicia L. T. Say. 1999. Mapping Image-Schemas and Translating Metaphors. Proceedings of 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Academia Sinica. pp. 95-102.
  37. Tsai, Mei-Chih, Chu-Ren Huang, Keh-Jiann Chen, Kathleen Ahrens. 1997. Towards a Representation of Verbal Semantics – An Approach Based on Near Synonyms. Proceedings of ROCLING X, pp. 34-48.
  38. Ahrens, Kathleen, Li-Li Chang, Kei-Jiann Chen, Chu-Ren Huang. 1997. Meaning Representation and Meaning Instantiation for Chinese Nominals. Proceedings of ROCLING X, pp. 4-18.
  39. Ahrens, Kathleen. 1996. The Mutability of Noun and Verb Meaning. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Academia Sinica. pp. 200-220.
  40. Chang, Li-Ping, Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens, Chao-Jan Chen. 1996. The Interaction of Constructional Meaning and Lexical Semantics. (In Chinese). In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. pp. 221-238.
  41. Ahrens, Kathleen and Chu-Ren Huang. 1996. Classifiers and Semantic Type Coercion: Motivating a New Classification of Classifiers. Proceedings from the 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computation. Kyung Hee Universtiy. pp. 1-10.
  42. Ahrens, Kathleen. 1995. The Meaning of Double Object Construction in Chinese. Proceedings of the Sixth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Los Angeles: GSIL, University of Southern California. Volume 1. pp. 1-10.
  43. Ahrens, Kathleen. 1995. Metaphorical Paradoxes: A Window on Conceptual System. Proceedings from the 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computation. City Universtiy of Hong Kong. pp. 139-148.
  44. Ahrens, Kathleen. 1994. Wh-in-Situ and Specificity. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Volume 30.
  45. Chen, Chao-Jen, Chu-Ren Huang, & Kathleen Ahrens. 1995. Construction as a Theoretical Entity: An Argument Based on Mandarin Existential Sentences. Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information, and Computation. City University of Hong Kong. pp. 91-96.
  46. Huang, Chu-Ren, Kathleen Ahrens, & Keh-jiann Chen. 1993. A Data-driven Approach to the Psychological Reality of the Mental Lexicon: Two Studies on Chinese Corpus Linguistics. Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biological Basis of Language. Center of Cognitive Science, National Chung Cheng Universtiy. pp. 53-68.
  47. Ahrens, Kathleen. 1993. Additional Evidence for LF: Wh-words in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the First Pacific Asia Conference on Formal and Computational Linguistics. Taipei: The Computational Linguistics Society of R.O.C. pp. 35-49.

Conference Papers

  1. Gong, Shu-ping. & Kathleen Ahrens. 2012. What metaphors do people generate for IDEA IS FOOD in Mandarin Chinese? Mapping Principles as Prototype Mappings for Conceptual Metaphors. Presented at the Ninth conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 9). Lancaster, UK. July 4-7.
  2. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2011. Examining Gender and Power in Diachronic Corpora. Presented at 10th International AELFE Conference. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, 5-7 September. [Invited Plenary Address]
  3. Gong, Shu-ping & Ahrens, Kathleen. 2011. The Priming Effect of Mapping Principles on the Processing of “X IS Y” Metaphors in Mandarin Chinese. Poster Presentation at the 17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP2011). Paris Descartes University (Centre Universitaire Saints Pères). Paris, France. September 1-3.
  4. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2010. Theoretical Modeling in Psycholinguistics. Presented at the International Conference on Applied Linguistics. National Chia-yi University, Taiwan, November 27-28. [Invited Keynote Address]
  5. Ahrens, Kathleen & Gong, Shu-ping. 2010. X is a What? Why the Conceptual Mapping Model is Needed when Interpreting IS-A Metaphors. Presented at Workshop on Model and Measurement of Meaning (M3) on PACLIC 24: The 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Tohoku University, Japan, November 4-7. [Invited Talk]
  6. Ahrens, Kathleen & Lee, Sophia. 2010. Gender References in Papal Writings Since the Second Vatican Council. Presented at the 6th International Gender and Language Association Conference (IGALA6), Tsuda College, Tokyo, 18-20 September.
  7. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2010. The History of the JOURNEY Source Domain in US Presidential Speeches. Presented at Eighth International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM8), Vrije Universiteit (VU), Netherlands, June 30-July 3.
  8. Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna & Kathleen Ahrens. 2010. A corpus-based study of metaphor signaling variations in three genres. Presented at Eighth International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM8), Vrije Universiteit (VU), Netherlands, June 30-July 3.
  9. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2010. Beyond the curriculum: authors and illustrators in kindergarten and early primary classroom. Paper presented at International Conference on Teaching and Learning of English for Children in Early Years in the Asia-Pacific Region. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute of Education. May 28-29.
  10. Duann, Ren-feng and Kathleen Ahrens. 2009. Analyzing conceptual metaphors of referendum: A case study of Taiwan. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Political Linguistics (PL2009). University of Lodz, Poland, 17-19 September 2009. 
  11. Ahrens, Kathleen and Gong, Shu-ping. 2009. Context and Mapping Principles. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, July 2-4.
  12. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2009. Travels over Time: U.S. Presidential Use of the 'Journey' Conceptual Metaphor. Presented at the 3rd Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition. National Taiwan University, Taipei, May 2-3.
  13. Gong, Shu-ping and Kathleen Ahrens. 2009. The Processing of Conceptual Metaphors in Texts. Presented at the 3rd Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition. National Taiwan University, Taipei, May 2-3.
  14. Chang , Paul You-Jun, Chien-Jer Charles Lin, & Kathleen Ahrens. 2009. Between Corpus and Cognition: Can Frequent Metaphorical Senses be Salient? Presented at the 3rd Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition. National Taiwan University, Taipei, May 2-3.
  15. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2009. Picture Books: Where Literature Appreciation Begins. Presented at Conference on Children’s Books from 0 to 3: Where Literacy Begins. Bilderbuchmuseum Burg Wissem, March 19-21.
  16. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2009. Using picture books to facilitate classroom-based discussion in the college curriculum. Presented at the LTTC International Conference on English Language Teaching and Testing. National Taiwan University, Taipei, March 6-7.
  17. Lee, Sophia and Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. Gender versus politics: When conceptual models collide. Presented at the 18th International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, Korea, July 21-26.
  18. Gong, Shu-ping and Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. Conceptual Mappings in the Processing of Metaphors in Mandarin Chinese. Presented at 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18). Soeul, Korea, July 21-26. 
  19. Horszowska, Katarzyna and Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. An analysis of the three modal expressions: Musiec, trzeba and powinno sie in Polish interviews with politicians using combined corpus-based and discourse analysis methods. Presented at Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines. University of Hertfordshire, 10-12 July.
  20. Gong, Shu-ping and Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. A Frequency-Based Collocational Approach to Determining Mapping Principles. Presented at Seventh International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM7). University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain, May 29-31.
  21. Lu, Louis Wei-lun and Kathleen Ahrens. 2008. What’s in a name? Metaphors of Country in Taiwanese Presidential Speeches. Presented at Seventh International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM7). University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain, May 29-31.
  22. Chung, Siaw-Fong, Laurent Prévot, Mingwei Xu, Kathleen Ahrens, Shu-Kai Hsieh and Chu-Ren Huang. 2008. Extracting Concrete Senses of Lexicon through Measurement of Conceptual Similarity in Ontologies. Poster presented at the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marrakech, Morocco, May 28-30.
  23. Hong, Jia-Fei, Chu-ren Huang and Kathleen Ahrens. 2007. Event Selection and Coercion of Two Verbs of Ingestion. Presented at the 8th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW-8). Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, May 20-23.
  24. Kathleen Ahrens and Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2006. Establishing Cognitive Models with Small Corpora: A Case Study of U.S. Political Speeches. Presented at the Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Munich, October, 5-7.
  25. Lu, Louis Wei-lun & Kathleen Ahrens. 2006. Metaphor use as a reflection of ideology in Mandarin Presidential speeches. Presented at the 10th New Zealand Language and Society Conference. University of Canterbury, New Zealand, August 19-20.
  26. Gong, Shu-ping & Kathleen Ahrens. 2006. On understanding conceptual metaphor in Mandarin Chinese: the role of context. Presented at the Joint Conference of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-14) and the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-10). Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, May 25-29.
  27. Chung, Siaw-Fong and Kathleen Ahrens. 2006. MARVS Revisited: Operationalizing Sense Frequency and MI Values. Presented at the Seventh Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop. National Chiao Tung University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, May 22-23. (Paper published on CD-Rom).
  28. Ahrens, Kathleen. 2006. Mapping Principles for Conceptual Metaphors. Presented at the Sixth Conference on Research and Applying Metaphor. University of Leeds, England, April 10-12.
  29. Chung, Siaw-Fong and Kathleen Ahrens. 2006. Examining Near-Synonyms: The Case of “Create” and “Produce” . Presented at the First International Conference on Applied Linguistics. National Chiayi University, Taiwan, April 1-2.
  30. Lu, Louis Wei-lun & Kathleen Ahrens. 2006. What corpora reveal about synonyms: A cognitive viewpoint on bother and worry. Presented at the 1st International Symposium on Applied Linguistics. Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan, April 1-2.
  31. Gong, Shu-Ping & Kathleen Ahrens. 2005. Metaphorical Congruency in Processing Conventional Metaphors in On-Line Discourse. Presented at the 17th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-17). The Monterey Institute of International Studies, California, June 24-26.
  32. Gong, Shu-Ping & Kathleen Ahrens. 2005. Comprehending conceptual metaphors in on-going discourse. Presented at the 2nd Workshop on Discourse and Cognition. Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, May 7.
  33. Tsai, Pei-Shu and Kathleen Ahrens. 2004. Figurative Language in Prose and Poetry. Presented at the 13th International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching. Taipei, Taiwan, November 12-14.
  34. Tsai, Pei-Shu and Kathleen Ahrens. 2004. Love Metaphors in Mandarin Chinese. Presented at the 16th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Iowa, USA, May 21-23.
  35. Pei-Shu Tsai and Kathleen Ahrens. 2004. Love Is a Commodity: How Love Is Embodied in Children's Literature. Presented at the First International Conference on English Teaching Linguistics, and Literature. National Kaoshiung Normal University, May 1.

   
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