Department of English, NCCU

Journal Publications

• Kawai Chui;Chan-Tat Ng;Ting-Ting Chang*, 2023.11, 'The visuo-sensorimotor substrate of co-speech gesture processing, ' Neuropsychologia, Vol.190, No.5, pp.108697.(SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• M. S.-H. Lin*;K. Šebesta;Kawai Chui;H.-L. Yeh, 2023.02, 'Deverbal noun predicates of Czech DO-constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective, ' Journal for Modern Philology, Vol.105, No.2, pp.188-199.(SCOPUS)(捷克語(文))(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui;Kanyu Yeh*;Ting-Ting Chang, 2021.04, 'Neural correlates of the processing of self-adaptors, emblems, and iconic gestures with speech: An fMRI study, ' Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Vol.35, pp.1-22.(SSCI, MLA, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2018.09, 'Spatial conceptualization of sequence time in language and gesture, ' Gesture, Vol.17, No.1, pp.180-199.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui;Chia-Ying Lee*;Kanyu Yeh;Pei-Chun Chao, 2018.08, 'Semantic processing of self-adaptors, emblems, and iconic gestures: An ERP study, ' Journal of Neurolinguistics, Vol.47, pp.105-122.(SSCI)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2018.05, 'Directionality of change: Grammatical variation and Do-constructions in Taiwan Mandarin, ' Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, Vol.44, No.1, pp.65-88.(THCI Core, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2017.01, 'Entity metaphor, object gesture, and context of use, ' Metaphor and Symbol, Vol.32, pp.30-51.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;Hsiang-lin Yeh;Wen-Chun La;Yu-Han Che, 2015.01, 'Clausal-packaging of path of motion in Mandarin learners’ acquisition of Russian and Spanish, ' Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, Vol.13, No.1, pp.1-23.(MLA, CSA, LLBA, THCI Core, SCOPUS, EBSCO)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2014.09, 'Mimicked gestures and the joint construction of meaning in conversation, ' Journal of Pragmatics, Vol.70, pp.68-85.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2013.01, 'Gesture and embodiment in Chinese discourse, ' Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol.41, No.1, pp.52-64.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2012.11, 'Gestural manifestation of knowledge in conceptual frames, ' Discourse Processes, Vol.49, No.8, pp.599-621.(SSCI)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2012.01, 'Cross-linguistic comparison of representations of motion in language and gesture, ' Gesture, Vol.12, No.1, pp.40-61.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2011.12, 'Do gestures compensate for the omission of motion expression in speech?, ' Chinese Language and Discourse, Vol.2, No.2, pp.153-167.(MLA, LLBA)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2011.08, 'Conceptual metaphors in gesture, ' Cognitive Linguistics, Vol.22, No.3, pp.437-458.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2009.12, 'Conversational coherence and gesture, ' Discourse Studies, Vol.11, No.6, pp.661-680.(SSCI)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2009.09, 'Linguistic and imagistic representations of motion events, ' Journal of Pragmatics, Vol.41, No.9, pp.1767-1777.(SSCI)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Chui, Kawai*, 2008.01, 'Complementary gestures and information types, ' Language and Linguistics, Vol.9, No.1, pp.1-22.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*;Huei-ling Lai*, 2008.01, 'The NCCU Corpus of Spoken Chinese: Mandarin, Hakka, and Southern Min, ' Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, Vol.6, No.2, pp.119-144.(MLA, LLBA, THCI Core)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui, 2005.10, 'Topicality and gesture in Chinese conversational discourse, ' Language and Linguistics, Vol.6, No.4, pp.635-654.(AHCI, SSCI) Ref.
• Kawai Chui, 2005.01, 'Structuring of information flow in Mandarin Chinese, ' Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol.33, No.1, pp.34-67.(AHCI) Ref.
• Kawai Chui, 2005, 'Temporal patterning of speech and iconic gestures in conversational discourse, ' Journal of Pragmatics, Vol.37, No.6, pp.871-887.(AHCI) Ref.
• Kawai Chui, 2004, 'Overlapping speech in Chinese conversation, ' Journal of Chinese Language and Computing, Vol.14, No.2, pp.139-156. Ref.
• Kawai Chui, 2003, 'Is the correlation between grounding and transitivity universal?, ' Studies in Language, Vol.27, No.2, pp.221-244.(AHCI) Ref.
• Kawai Chui, 2002, 'Discontinuity of conversational topics. Concentric: Studies in English, ' Literature and Linguistics, Vol.28, No.2, pp.149-174.
• Kawai Chui, 2002, 'Ritualization in evolving pragmatic functions: A case study of DUI, ' Language and Linguistics, Vol.3, No.4, pp.645-663.(AHCI, SSCI) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2000, 'Morphologization of the degree adverb HEN, ' Language and Linguistics, Vol.1, No.1, pp.45-59.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 1996, 'Repair in Chinese conversation, ' TEXT, Vol.16, No.3, pp.343-372.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 1994, 'Grammaticization of the saying verb WA in Cantonese, ' Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, Vol.5, pp.1-13.(*為通訊作者) Ref.

Presentation/Proceedings

• Kawai Chui;Huei-Mei Liu*;Feng-Ming Tsao;Chan-Tat Ng, 2025.07, 'Mandarin-speaking late talkers and gesture production at 24 months, ' Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, The Cognitive Science Society, pp.4401-4408.(eScholarship)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;Huei-Mei Liu;Feng-Ming Tsao, 2024.07, 'Developmental relation of gesture and language in one-year-olds, ' The XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, The International Association for the Study of Child Language.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;Hsiang-Lin Yeh;Shih-Hui Lin, 2022.10, 'The Information Packaging of the Do-Constructions in Chinese, Russian, and Czech, ' ACL Anthology - Proceedings of the 36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, De La Salle University, pp.35–44.(SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;Marian Olech;Yuan-Tse Lin;Hung-Ming Lin, 2022.10, 'Action Representation and Semantic Development in Archaic Chinese Characters, ' Proceedings of the 36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, De La Salle University, pp.to appear.(SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;Hsiang-lin Yeh, 2019.10, 'Cross-linguistic perspectives on FEAR in Russian and Mandarin Chinese, ' Proceedings of II World Congress in Real and Virtual Mode, Kyoto Sangyo University, pp.728-734.(SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2019.06, 'Modal specificity in semantic representation of nominal and verbal concepts, ' The 16th International Pragmatics Conference, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;Kanyu Yeh;Ting-Ting Chang, 2019.03, 'The bimodal processing of self-adaptors, emblems, and iconic gestures with speech: An fMRI study, ' The 21st annual meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Cognitive Neuroscience Society.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;Hsiang-Lin Yeh;Jie-Li Tsai, 2018.12, 'A corpus study of linguistic-cultural conceptualization of FEAR in Chinese and Russian, ' Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp.123-128.(SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2018.10, 'Spatial conceptualization of sequence time in language and gesture, ' The 17th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages and the 9th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition, National Taiwan University.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui;Chia-Ying Lee*;Kanyu Yeh;Pei-Chun Chao, 2018.03, 'Semantic processing of self-adaptors, emblems, and iconic gestures: An ERP study, ' The 20th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Cognitive Neuroscience Society.(*為通訊作者)
• Hsiang-lin Yeh*;Kawai Chui;Jie-Li Tsai, 2017.10, 'The fear emotion and linguistic specificity in Russian and Chinese, ' The 7th International Conference on Russian Language and Culture in the Dialogue of the Asia-Pacific Countries, Vladivostok.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2017.07, 'Entity metaphor and object gesture in Taiwan Mandarin discourse, ' The 15th International Pragmatics Conference, International Pragmatics Association.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2015.12, 'Corpus study of the grammatical variation of do-constructions in Mandarin Chinese, ' The Conference on Corpus Linguistics and Technology Advancement 2015, The Hong Kong Institute of Education.(*為通訊作者)
• Yu-tung Chang;Kawai Chui*, 2015.10, 'The cross-modal representation of metaphors, ' The 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;Hsiang-lin Yeh;Wen-Chun Lan;Yu-Han Cheng, 2013.11, 'Clausal-packaging of path of motion in second language acquisition of Russian and Spanish, ' The 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation, 英國語文學系.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2013.11, 'Bilateral account of multimodal grounding of meaning, ' Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 97, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, pp.405-413.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• Kawai Chui*, 2013.06, 'Mimicking gestures and joint actions in conversation, ' The 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, The University of Alberta.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2012.08, 'Comprehension of representational gestures, ' The 34th Annual Meeting of The Cognitive Science Society, The Cognitive Science Society.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2011.07, 'Language typology and linguistic-gestural conceptualization of motion event, ' he 9th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Hong Kong.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2011.07, 'Conceptual metonymies in gesture, ' The 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Xi''an International Studies University.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2011.04, 'Gesture and embodiment in discourse, ' The 5th Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition, National Taiwan University.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2010.07, 'Gesture and frame knowledge, ' The 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, European University Viadrina.(*為通訊作者)

Book

• Kawai Chui*, 2022.03, 'Language and Gesture in Chinese Conversation, ' Routledge Studies in Chinese Discourse Analysis, Routledge.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;One-Soon Her;Chao-Lin Liu, 2017.02, '語言學門在台灣 ─ 現況與展望, ' Crane Publishing.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2001, 'Topic Chain and Grounding in Chinese Discourse, ' Crane Publishing.(*為通訊作者) Ref.

Book Chapters

• 徐嘉慧*, 2021.12, '語言與手勢──比手說話, ' 語言學──結構、認知與文化的探索, 臺大出版中心, pp.295-317.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2019.05, 'Grounding and gestural repetition in Chinese conversational interaction, ' Multimodality in Chinese Interaction, De Gruyter Mouton, pp.119-147.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2019.01, 'Language, gesture, and meaning, ' Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis, Routledge, pp.244-261.(*為通訊作者)
• Huei-ling Lai*;Kawai Chui;Wen-Hui Sah;Siaw-Fong Chung;Chao-Lin Liu, 2018.11, 'Language communities, corpora, and cognition, ' Big Data in Computational Social Science and Humanities, Springer International Publishing AG, pp.195-206.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*;Huei-ling Lai;Hui-Chen Chan, 2017.01, 'Taiwan Spoken Chinese Corpus, ' Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Brill, pp.257-259.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2016.01, '語言癌？語言使用的觀點, ' 語言癌不癌？語言學家的看法, Linking Publishing, pp.109-136.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui*, 2009, 'Language and gesture, ' Language and Cognition, National Taiwan University Press, pp.84-124.(*為通訊作者)
• Kawai Chui, 2002, 'Categorization of gestures in communication, ' Form and Function: Linguistic studies in honor of Shuanfan Huang, Crane Publishing, pp.105-129. Ref.
• Shuanfan Huang*;Kawai Chui, 1997, 'Is Chinese a pragmatic order language?, ' Typological Studies of Languages in China, Academia Sinica, pp.51-79.(*為通訊作者) Ref.

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• 英國語文學系
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• 語言學研究所
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• 英國語文學系
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• 英國語文學系
• 1994-08 ~ 2002-02

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• 英國語文學系英語教學碩士在職專班
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• 2012-08 ~ 2013-07

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• 語言學研究所
• 2011-08 ~ 2012-07

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• 2010-08 ~ 2011-07

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