Kathleen Ahrens

Hong Kong Polytechnic University — Hong Kong

Psychology · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(83), Natural Language Processing Techniques(35), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies(20), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies(19), Categorization, perception, and language(16)

Publications156 total

Gendered Metaphor as a Persuasive Tool in Venture Capital Pitches
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly·2026
Metaphorical framing of democracy
Journal of Language and Politics·2025Open Access
Metaphors in Luxury Hotel Websites: A Comparative Analysis Between Singapore and Hong Kong
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly·2025
A type-theoretical approach to categorical interaction and complex system adaptation: an empirical study based on register classification
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications·2025Open Access
Linguistic synesthesia and embodiment: A study based on Mandarin modality exclusivity norms
Language Sciences·2025· 1 cited
Ages and Stages: Glimpses into the Lives of Women in the Academy [PDF, E-Book]
Vernon Press eBooks·2025
Do new words propagate like memes? An internet usage-based two-stage model of the life cycle of neologisms
Journal of Chinese linguistics·2025Open Access
Do New Words Propagate Like Memes?An Internet Usage-Based Two-Stage Model of the Life Cycle of Neologisms
Journal of Chinese linguistics·2024
Do New Words Propagate like Memes? An Internet Usage-Based Two-Stage Model of the Life Cycle of Neologisms
Journal of Chinese linguistics·2024
Metaphor and gender: are words associated with source domains perceived in a gendered way?
Linguistics Vanguard·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Making the Unseen Seen: The Role of Signaling and Novelty in Rating Metaphors
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research·2024Open Access
‘Luxurious’ metaphors in luxury hotel websites in Singapore and Hong Kong: A mixed-methods study
Applied Corpus Linguistics·2024· 5 cited
What Factors Can Facilitate Efficient Propagation of Chinese Neologisms–A Corpus-Driven Study with Internet Usage Data
Lecture notes in computer science·2024
Perceptional and actional enrichment for metaphor detection with sensorimotor norms
Natural Language Engineering·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Novel metaphor and embodiment: comprehending novel synesthetic metaphors
Linguistics Vanguard·2023· 3 cited
Corpus-Based Metaphorical Framing Analysis: WAR Metaphors in Hong Kong Public Discourse
Metaphor and Symbol·2023· 15 citedOpen Access
Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
The Emotion Code in Sensory Modalities
Lecture notes in computer science·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Children's War Diaries as Agents of Peace
Bookbird/Book bird·2023· 1 cited
Toward an Empirical Theory of Sense: A Corpus-Based Study of Mandarin Conceptual Lexicalization
Text, speech and language technology·2023
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Frequent Co-authors

Chu‐Ren Huang(26), Siaw-Fong Chung(7), Keh-Jiann Chen(4), Menghan Jiang(3), Winnie Huiheng Zeng(3), Shu-Ping Gong(2), Dingxu Shi(2), Li–Li Chang(2), Mei-Chih Tsai(2), Qingqing Zhao(2), Christian Burgers(2), Sophia Yat Mei Lee(2), Mingyu Wan(2), Ho‐Ling Liu(1), Chia‐Ying Lee(1), Shin-Yi Fang(1), Yuan-Yu Hsu(1), Wei-lun Lu(1), Jerome L. Packard(1), Y.-H. Audrey Li(1)