Conference Papers

[2024]

Soon, Suet-Ching & Siaw-Fong Chung. 2024. Yang ini/itu in Malay: Co-occurence of Relative Marker and Deictic Marker. To be presented in the 16th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (16-ICAL). 20-24 June , Manila, Philippines.

Siaw-Fong Chung. 2024. "Using Social Media to Inspire and Share Knowledge in a Chinese Context." (Theme session: Multilingual Communication and Cultural Thinking). 10th International Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind: Celebrating Linguistic and Cultural Diversity, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, July 11-14. 

Chung, Siaw-Fong & Fidelia Mathew Sipaun. 2024. "Cultivating Cross-Cultural Literary Connections through Mini Sagas and Poems." The 4th International Conference on Language, Linguistics and Society (ICLALIS),  Sabah, Malaysia. June 10-11.

[2023]

Lai, Yan-Ping, Yu-Che Yen, & Siaw-Fong Chung. 2023. "‘Die laughing’ as a Discourse Marker of Sarcasm: Its Uses in Social Media Corpus During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Taiwan." Virtual Words in the World International Conference 2023 (WOW2023), December 1-2.

Chung, Siaw-Fong, Yan-Ping Lai, & Pin-Yi Li. 2023. “Reframing in Pandemic: Fear and Traffic Congestion.” International Virtual Conference on Language and Literature (IVICOLL).  State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia. Oct 27-28.  

Chung, Siaw-Fong & Suet Ching Soon. 2023. "Ada yang – A Non-definite, Non-specific Group Reference in Malay." Paper presented in the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society  (SEALS 2023), Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand,  May 16-18.

[2022]

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2022. Metaphorical Mechanisms of the Suffix -an in Malaysian Standard Malay. To be presented the 15th Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference. University of Bialystok, Poland. September 21-24.

[2021]

Shih, Meng-Hsien & Siaw-Fong Chung. 2021. "Chinese Semantic Role Sketch based on Sinica Treebank." Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2021.University of Limerick, Ireland. July 13-16.

Shih, Meng-Hsien & Siaw-Fong Chung. 2021. "A Malay Daily News Corpus with Morphological and POS Tagging by the MorphInd Tagger." Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2021. University of Limerick, Ireland. July 13-16.

Yang, Wei-Ting & Siaw-Fong Chung. 2021. “A Corpus-based Approach to Shell Nouns Analysis in Dcard Social Platform.” The International Conference on Technology-enhanced Language Learning and Teaching & Corpus-based Language Learning and Teaching, The Education University of Hong Kong. July 7-9.

Lee, Chi-Ling & Siaw-Fong Chung. 2021. “An Analysis of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compound V-jìn (盡)—A Corpus-based Study.” The International Conference on Technology-enhanced Language Learning and Teaching & Corpus-based Language Learning and Teaching, The Education University of Hong Kong. July 7-9.

[2019]

Chung, Siaw-Fong, Zhu-Wan Chen and Meng-Chieh Lin. 2019. “The Chinese ‘PAINLESS’: A Corpus-based Analysis.” Poster presented at the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-15), Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan. August 6-11.

廖恆佳、鍾曉芳。2019。「「竟是」在社群媒體中的語用研究」. Presented in the 17th International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education (The 2019 Annual Conference of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS)). The Confucius Institute, University of Lancaster. July 5-7.

黃曼華、鍾曉芳。2019。「華語社群媒體的迫切請求之言語行為分析—以批踢踢語料為例」. Presented in the 17th International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education (The 2019 Annual Conference of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS)). The Confucius Institute, University of Lancaster. July 5-7.

Chung, Siaw-Fong and Suet Ching Soon. 2019. “The Use of Chinese Qiang3Po4 in the Chinese Corpora.” Presented in the 17th International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education (The 2019 Annual Conference of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS)). The Confucius Institute, University of Lancaster. July 5-7.

Chung, Siaw-Fong and Min-Chun Hsiao. 2019. “The Use of Da4/Xiao3/Bu4Dong4Zuo4 in PTT: A Corpus-based Account.” Presented at the Workshop on Recent Approaches to (Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language. Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore. May 3-4. 

Hsiao, Min-Chun and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2019. “Affectedness in the Agent of SUBSTITUTE.” Presented at the Workshop on Recent Approaches to (Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language. Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore. May 3-4. 

[2018]

Soon, Suet Ching and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2018. "EFFECT-related Nouns in Thesis Abstracts:  A Contrastive Study of Mandarin and English." Presented in the 14th American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference, Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. September 20-22. [106-2410-H-004-109-MY2]

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2018. "Simply versus Only: A Semantic Prosody Concern." Presented in the 2018 International Conference on English Teaching and Learning. National Tsing Hua University. May 18-19. [106-2410-H-004-109-MY2]

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2018. "In Search of Prominent Vocabulary in Compared Genres: A Methodological Issue." Presented in the 2018 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. April 20-21. [106-2410-H-004-109-MY2]

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2017. “End up: A Semantic Prosody Analysis.” Poster presented in the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS). GIS National Taiwan University Convention Center in Taipei, Taiwan. September 1-3. [106-2410-H-004-109-MY2]

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2017. “Adverbials with Antonymous Meanings in Corpus.” Poster presented in the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS). GIS National Taiwan University Convention Center in Taipei, Taiwan. September 1-3. [104-2420-H-004 -003-MY2]

Chung, Siaw-Fong and Suet-Ching Soon. 2017. “Malay Adverb Lagi.” Presented in the Twenty-First International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL 21). May 4-6, 2017. Langkawi, Malaysia.  [104-2420-H-004-034-MY2]

[2016]

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2016. “Total, Absolute, Utter: A Semantic Prosody Concern.” Presented at the 33rd ROCTEFL International Conference of English Teaching and Learning. Department of English, National Changhua University of Education. May 28-29.

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2016. “Distinguishing demi, bagi, tentang, and untuk in Malay: A Corpus-based Approach.” Presented at the 8th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2016). National Taiwan University, Taipei. May 13-14.

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2016. “Is there a Handsome Room in Our Learners’ Vocabulary?” Presented at the International Conference on English Education, Shih Chien University, Taipei Campus (實踐大學台北校區), April 23-24.

Hou, Kai-ling and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2016. “Language Variation and Sociocultural Change: An Investigation of suān (酸), dǎliǎn (打臉) and bèiléidào (被雷到).” Poster presented at the International Conference of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation–Asia Pacific 4 (NWAV AP4), National Chung Cheng University, April 22-24. [104-2420-H-004-034-MY2].

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2016. “The Use of Killer in Magazine and Newspaper Corpora.” Presented at the 2016 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT). Department of Applied Foreign Languages, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology (NTUST), Taipei. April 15-16.

[2015]

Lin, Yen-Yu and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2015. “Propose and Suggest: A Corpus-based Study of Two Near-synonymous Reporting Verbs in Academic Writing." Presented at the 2015 International Conference on ESP (ESP: Moving Higher Education Closer to Industry). Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. October 23-24.

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2015. "A Semantic Examination of the Mandarin Morpheme 後 HOU4". Presented at the 2015 International Conference on Applied Linguistics, National Chiayi University, Taiwan. May 30-31. [101-2410-H-004-176-MY2]

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2015. “Front and Back: A Corpus-based Investigation.” Presented at the 2015 International Conference on Applied Linguistics. Symposium Theme: Metaphor: A Paradise of Languages and Cultures, National Chiayi University, Taiwan. May 30-31. [104-2420-H-004 -003-MY2]

陳威佑、鍾曉芳。2015。"反義詞多和少在數量名次結構中的不對稱現象--以語料庫為本的分析"。Paper presented at the 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. University of California, Los Angeles,California, USA, April 3-5.

[2014]

Chung, Siaw-Fong and Suet Ching Soon. 2014. “Conceptual Metaphors in Malay and Chinese: A Comparative Study.” Presented at the 8th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures and Cultures. University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. August 12-14.

楊美儀、鍾曉芳。2014。“生命、生活 與Life之辨析－以語料庫為本”. 英國漢語教學研究會年會暨第十二屆高校漢語教學國際研討會。英國，倫敦：攝政大學。7月9-11。

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2014. “Investigating Variations of Elements in Prepositional Phrases.” Panel presentation (Panel Theme: Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Research) at the 2014 Symposium on English Education and Studies, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Taiwan. June 13.

Soon, Suet-Ching and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2014. “Locative Particle ‘Shang’ in Chinese.” Paper presented at the 6th International Conference of Corpus Linguistic. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. May 22-24. 

Chung, Siaw-Fong and Kathleen Ahrens. 2014. “A Corpus-based Study of Face: Returning to Linguistic Forms.” Poster presented at the Seventh Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2014), National Taiwan University, Taiwan. May 3-4.

Duann, Ren-feng, Siaw-Fong Chung, and Kathleen Ahrens. 2014. Corpus Approach to the Exploration of Lexical Meaning Generation: The Case of 門 men2 ‘door’. Presented at the Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 7-8 March. 

[2013]

Lee, Min-Chien and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2013. “A Corpus-based, Multi-level Analysis of Prepositions in VP-down in-NP Constructions.” Presented at the 2013 International Conference on Applied Linguistics (APLX2013), National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan. November 14-15. 

Chung, Siaw-Fong and Min-Chien Lee. 2013. “Focusing on the Literal and Metaphorical Patterns of Prepositions: Corpus and its Applications.” Presented at the Fifth Asian Conference on Education. Osaka, Japan. October 23-27.

Lee, Min-Chien and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2013. “A Study of the Polysemous Culinary Verbs in Chinese.” In Presented at the 7th International Free Linguistics Conference (FLC), Hong Kong. September 27-28.

栗原祐美、鍾曉芳. 2013. “華語反對意見表達研究：社會地位、語境與語氣設定的作用.” Presented at the中国語教育学会第11回全国大会. Tokyo, Japan. June 1-2.

Lin, Yen-Yu and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2013. ““It should be noted that…”: A Corpus-based Study on Reporting Clauses with it Subject and Passive Voice in Academic Prose.” Presented at the 30th International Conference on English Teaching and Learning, Tainan, Taiwan. May 18-19.

[2012]

Chung, Siaw-Fong, Min-Chien Lee, Yen-Yu Lin, and Ming-Che Hsieh. 2012. “Cross-linguistic Literal and Metaphorical Comparisons of IN(SIDE): A perspective from Mandarin, Malay, and English.” Paper Presented at the Meaning of P (with a special session on spatial polysemy). The Department of Linguistics (Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut) of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany. November 23-24. 

Chung, Siaw-Fong and F.Y. August Chao. 2012. “A Semantic Integrated Vocabulary Analyzing Tool for ESL Teaching.” Paper presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Lexicography and L2 Teaching & Learning. Shaanxi Normal University, China. October 20-22.

Chung, Siaw-Fong, Katarzyna Proctor, and Wei-Chen Kao. 2012. “‘Prepositions’, Verbs, and Their Metaphorical Extensions: An investigation of Mandarin, Polish, and Malay.” Paper presented at the Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2012 Conference. Wrocław, Poland. September 17-18.

Chang, Yu-Tung and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2012. “Deictic Functions of Huílái (回来) and Huíqù (回去): A Corpus-based and Experimental Study.” Paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-20). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. August 29-31.

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2012. "A Lexico-semantic Approach to Teaching English Prepositions(Cases of Taiwanese Classrooms)." 2012 International Conference on Educational Media. Educational Broadcasting System (EBS), Seoul, Korea. Friday, June 15. (Also as a Panelist)

Lin, Yen-Yu and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2012. “The Use of “VERB from the NOUN of” in Published Writing in Commerce.” Poster presented at the 6th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC2012). National Taiwan University, Taiwan. May 4-6.

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2012. “A Pattern Analysis of [PREP + the NOUN of] in the LTTC English Learner Corpus.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching (ALLT). National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. April, 19-21.

Chao, F.Y. August and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2012. “VocabGraph: Semantic Graph Inspector with Referred Word List.” Poster presented at the International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching (ALLT). National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. April, 19-21.

Chang, Chieh, Min-Chien Lee, and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2012. “Comparing English-Mandarin Lexical Concepts of CRAWL.” Poster presented at the International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching (ALLT). National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. April, 19-21.

Lee, Min-Chien, Siaw-Fong Chung, and Chao-Lin Liu. 2012. "A Corpus-based Investigation of Metaphorical Extensions of “Down the NPs.” Presented at Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2012 (GURT 2012). Washington, DC., USA, March 8-11.

[2011]

Chung, Siaw-Fong and F. Y August Chao. 2011. “Preposition-Containing Lexical Bundles and Idiomatic Expressions in Economics Dissertations.” Presented at the 10th Conference for the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL), Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, USA, October 7-9.

Lin, Yen-Yu and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2011. “A Study on the Semantic Preference and Semantic Prosody of “CHALLENGE”.” Presented at the Corpus Linguistics 2011 (Discourse and Corpus Linguistics) Conference. Birmingham, England. July 20-22.

Chen, Li-Yin and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2011. “Writing for English Publishing on the Periphery of the Periphery: A Case Study of a Taiwanese Computer Science Scholar.” Presented at the 2011 Symposium on Second Language Writing. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei. June 9-11.

Skoufaki, Sophia, Siaw-Fong Chung, and August F. Y. Chao. 2011. “Low-intermediate EFL Writing Assessment: Does a Varied Vocabulary Lead to Higher Scores?” Presented at the Learners and Networks Conference. Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom. March 16-18.

[2010]

Wang, Liang-Chun and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2010. “A Comparison of HAPPEN and its Synonyms based on Native Speaker and Learner Corpora.” Presented at the Sixteenth Conference of the International Association for World Englishes. Vancouver, BC, Canada. July, 25-27.

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2010. “Collocational Behavior of a Near-synonym Set (watch, look, and see) by Taiwanese EFL Learners of English: A Corpus-based Study.” Presented at the English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) Third International Spring Forum. Tokyo, Japan. April 24-25.

[2009]

Chung, Siaw-Fong, F.Y. August Chao and Yi-Chen Hsieh. 2009. “VocabAnalyzer: A Referred Word List Analyzing Tool with Keyword, Concordancing and N-gram Functions.” Poster presented at the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 23). Also appeared in Kwong Olivia. (ed.). Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. pp. 638-645. December 3-5. [download]

Hsieh, Yi-Chen and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2009. ““Do” and “Make”: A Corpus-based Study.” Presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference. University of Alberta - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. October 8-11.

Chung, Siaw-Fong and Yu-Wen Tseng. 2009. “Learning Prepositions: A Corpus-based Study in Taiwan EFL Contexts.” Poster presented at the Third International Conference Grammar and Corpora. Mannheim, Germany. September 22-24.

Ling, Wang-Chen and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2009. “The Mandarin (Reflexive) Pronoun of SELF (zi4ji3) in Bible: A Corpus-based Study.” Presented at the Fifth Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Liverpool, England. July 21-23. Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2009. “A Case Study of Economic Growth based on U.S. Presidential Speeches.” Presented at the Fifth Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Liverpool, England. July 21-23.

Lu, Tsui-Ping Grace and Siaw-Fong Chung. 2009. “Comparing Four Types of Mandarin Passive Constructions in Corpora.” Presented at the 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-21), Bryant University. Bryant, Rhode Island, U.S.A. June 6-8.

[2008]

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2008. “Metonymic Extensions of ‘One:’ A Study based on the Morpheme Se- in Malay.” Presented at the Second Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition (CLDC-2). Taipei, Taiwan. May 17-18.

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.

[2006]

Kathleen Ahrens and Siaw-Fong Chung and. 2006. “Establishing Cognitive Models with Small Corpora: A Case Study of U.S. Political Speeches.” Presented at the Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Munich, Germany. October, 5-7.

Chung, Siaw-Fong, Jia-fei Hong and Chu-Ren Huang. 2006. “Meaning Extensions of Shang4 in Mandarin as Predictor of Events Categorization.” Presented in the 14th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) in conjunction with 10th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL). Academia Sinica, Taipei. May, 25-29.

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.

[2004]

Chung, Siaw-Fong and Kathleen Ahrens. 2004. “Using Corpus as a Tool: In the Case of Teaching Conceptual Metaphors.” Presented at the First International  Conference on English Teaching Linguistics, and Literature, National Kaoshiung Normal University, Kaoshiung, Taiwan. [Teaching ConceptualMetaphors]

[2003]

Chung, Siaw Fong. 2003. “Dalam in Malay: Image Schemata Take a Look.” Presented at the 30th LACUS Forum, Victoria B.C., Canada. August, 28-31.