Songqiao Xie
- PhD student
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About
Songqiao completed his MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (2021-2022) and BA in English at Shanghai International Studies University (2017-2021). His current PhD study, in the field of experimental semantics and pragmatics, focuses on the typology of metonymy relations and their underlying features for a psycholinguistic investigation between neurodivergent and neurotypical people. He is also interested in the processing of other figurative devices (e.g., metaphor and irony) from a developmental and neurodiversity perspective.
Scholarships and Prizes:
Homerton Charter Postgraduate Scholarship
Research
Metonymy Acquisition and Processing: Diversity across Metonymy Types and between Neurotypes
Experimental pragmatics, Figurative language, Comprehension and cognition, Neurodiversity
Supervised by: Prof Napoleon Katsos