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 The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...

and Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has written: * ''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

References

Living people Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Alumni of University College London Linguists from the United Kingdom Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-linguist-stub