Andrew Goatly Explained

Andrew Goatly is an English language professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Career

Goatly studied English at Jesus College, Oxford before working for Voluntary Service Overseas in Rwanda and Thailand. On returning to the United Kingdom he worked as a schoolteacher before obtaining a doctorate at University College, London and thereafter teaching at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, the National University of Singapore and Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has written:^[1]

• The Language of Metaphors, and Critical Reading and Writing, published by Routledge
• Washing the Brain: the hidden ideology of metaphor, published by John Benjamins
• Explorations in Stylistics, published by Equinox
• Meaning and Humour, published by Cambridge University Press.

Two Dimensions of Meaning: Similarity and Contiguity in Language, Culture and Ecology published by Routledge

Notes and References

1. Jesus College Newsletter . . 2005 . . After reading English... . Goatly . Andrew . 11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070814180245/http://alumni.jesus.ox.ac.uk/MT2005%20newsletter.pdf . 2007-08-14 .