Prof. LEUNG Danny

	Title	Assistant Professor
	Tel	2609 8550
	Office	Fung King Hey 310
	Profile	BA, MPhil, PhD (CUHK)
	E-mail	dannyleung@cuhk.edu.hk

Administrative Post

Director of MA in Applied English Linguistics

Research Interests

• Applied cognitive linguistics
• L2 teaching and learning of figurative language
• Metaphor and metonymy theories
• The cross-linguistic/cultural study of idioms in English and Cantonese

Publication

• (in press, with P. Crisp). Cantonese and English bodies do talk: a cross-cultural, metaphor-metonymy study on body-part idioms. In L. X. Jin & M. Cortazzi (Eds.). Researching Chinese Learners: Skills, Perceptions & Intercultural Adaptations. London: Palgrave, Macmillan. 

Conferences

• (2009, May). L1-L2 idioms alike or different: a cognitive-linguistic pedagogical treatment of idioms for L2 learners of English. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual JALT Pan-SIG Conference, Chiba, Japan.

• (2006, August). The “Particle-based Learning” (PBL) of English phrasal verbs: a new pedagogy founded on cognitive semantics. Paper presented at the 2006 Asia TEFL International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan.