FASS Staff Profile

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OOI, VINCENT B Y

DEPARTMENT of ENGLISH, LINGUISTICS & THEATRE STUDIES

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
AS5/05-12
Email:
vinceooi@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
(+65) 6516 6032
Fax:
(+65) 6773 2981
Homepage:
http://www.vinceooi.com
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Brief Introduction

PhD (Lancaster University, UK), M.A. B.A. (Hons) NUS

I am a faculty member at the Department of English Language and Literature.  I served as Assistant Dean (External Relations and Student Life), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, from July 2010 to Dec 2014.


Teaching Areas

(current modules - module course chair)
• Language and the Internet (undergraduate level)
• Lexicology and Lexicography (advanced undergraduate level)
• Corpus Linguistics (graduate level)

Advanced undergraduate (B.A. Hons) supervision/
Successful theses, dissertations, independent projects / by the following students:

Evaluative Language in Singapore Food Review Blogs / Amos Ghui [Honours thesis]
'Tone it Up': A Corpus-based Analysis of Women Fitness Blogs / Charis Lim Yan Qing [Honours thesis]
'Anabuddy there?': Support and Motivation on Instagram / Nurul Afiqah [Honours thesis]
'First Impressions Last': A Corpus-based Study of NUS MA/PhD Abstracts across Disciplines / Timothy Ong Jun Wei [Honours thesis]
'Manage Your Stress': Examining the Discourse of Health Organisations in Singapore / Jonathan Tan Chu Chze [Honours thesis]
Competition or Cooperation?: The Case of 'Have to' and 'Must' in Philippine English / Rowland Sibugan Imperial [Honours thesis]
'We Want You': The Language of Online Recruitment Advertising in Singapore / Melcher Tan Chun Kiat [Honours thesis]
A Corpus-based Analysis of Love Confessions on Facebook / Tan Yun Yin [Honours thesis]
A Corpus-Linguistic Approach to Analysing Local Food Blogs / Tong Ming Yan [Honours thesis]
A Corpus-based Approach to Student Testimonial Letters / Daniel Lim Meng Hui [Honours thesis]
Why u write lyk dat?: Singapore English on Facebook / Nurulhuda Borhan Said [Honours ISM]
Unspeakable Connections: Lexical Relations in Taboo and Player Strategies / Lo Wanni [Honours thesis]
Electronic Gaming as a Genre / Bai Shuping [Honours ISM]
Uncovering Cross-Cultural Norms of Netspeak in Windows Live Messenger / Cheryl Ng Xin Yi [USP Honours ISM]
Politeness in Online Instant Messaging / by Jasmine Ong Peishan [Honours ISM]
Defining English Words in Singapore / by Kwok Boon Yong [Honours ISM]
Context of Situation for Lectal Switch / by Lin Sum Yi [Honours ISM]
CMC Features In English Personal Blogs by Singaporean Teens / by Chan Yoke Hian [Honours thesis]
A Corpus-based Study of a Virtual Reality Pet Community / by Cai Yi Tian [Honours thesis]
Investigating Gendered Differences in Computer-Mediated Communication from a Singapore Perspective / by Geraldine Tan Wei Lin [Honours thesis]
Towards a Fairer Representation of The ESL/EFL User's Socio-Linguistic Reality in the English Dictionary / by Jasmine Tan Ying Ling [Honours thesis]
Linguistic Aspects of Electronic Games on The Web / by Joseph Kiong Chin Fong [Honours thesis]
Challenging Orthodoxy : A Linguistic Analysis of Subversive Texts on the Web / by Ivan Yap Shing Loong [Honours thesis]
A Genre Analysis of Christian Online Devotionals / by Amy Luisita [Honours thesis]
The Language of Insults among Singaporean Teenagers / by Lucinda Seah Kar Hui [Honours thesis]
An Analysis of The Art of Being "Woody Allen" / by Choong Choon Yee [Honours thesis]
A Genre Analysis of Infomercials / by Martin Chew Soon Chiang [Honours thesis
Ideology in The Newspapers : The Singapore-Malaysia Relationship / by Wendy Woo Yen Hsia [Honours thesis]
Investigating the Language Of Prince / by Tan Ping Chuen [Honours thesis]
Deriving Singapore Culture from Computer Corpora / by Lee Keh Yi [Honours thesis]
A Corpus-Based Perspective to Language Studies / Lim Hang Kok  [Honours thesis, joint supervision with Department of Japanese Studies]
Linguistic Strategies in The Pyramid Game / by Kelly Koh Ben Lin [Honours thesis]
Questions for Tapestry : An English Analyzer for Interrogative Sentences / by Liaw Wy-Cin [Honours thesis]
Towards a Computerized Lexis of Singapore English / by Annie Tan [Honours thesis]


Graduate Supervision

Successful theses and dissertations / by the following students:

The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: A Corpus-based Study of Metaphors in British and American Discourse / Tommie Chen Siong Chuk [PhD]

A Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese / Zhang Ruihua [PhD]

Linguistic Variation and Identity Representation in Personal Blogs: A Corpus-linguistic Approach / Gong Wengao [Ph.D.]

A Corpus-based Study of Educational Discourse - the SCoRE Approach / Hong Huaqing [Ph.D.]

Annotating Singapore English / by Chong Teng Yuan [M.A. dissertation]

The Language of 'Seeking': Asian Web-based Personal Ads / by Sunit Singh [M.A.dissertation]

A Corpus-based Study of Lexical Behaviour in Chinese Learner English / by Lu Yuanwen [Ph.D.]

The Taiwan Issue in the Media : A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Chinese and American Media Discourse / by Lu Xiaofei [M.A. dissertation]

Linguistic Analysis of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) / by Raina Chua Boon Kiat [M.A. dissertation]

A Linguistic Analysis of The Computer Times / by Wong Chin Yeow [M.A. dissertation]

Love @ Cyberspace : A Corpus-Based Study Of Personal Ads on the Web / by Mohammad Akshir Kadir [M.A. dissertation]

The Language of Aids : The Representation ff HIV/AIDS in Medical Texts / by Doreen Liow Yee Ling [M.A. dissertation]

A Corpus-Based Study of SM Lee's Speeches / by Vivien Ler Soon Lay [M.A. dissertation]

Lexical Combinations in Singapore English / by Kusuma De Silva [M.A. dissertation]

A Genre Analysis of Local Children's Stories / by Janet George [M.A. dissertation]

Word-Processing in Revision Strategies and Behaviours : A Writing Programme for Diploma in Nursing S / by Wilna Thang Eng Fung [M.A. dissertation]

An Investigation of English Bible Translators' Styles in The Psalms / by Joseph Ng [M.A. dissertation]


Current Research

Research interests:

   Corpus-based language studies and linguistic computing

   Lexicology and lexicography

   Computer-mediated communication and the World Wide Web

   Asian varieties of English and business discourse

 


Research Interests

  • Corpus linguistics
  • Computer-mediated communication
  • 'New' Varieties of English, including Singaporean and Malaysian English
  • Lexical semantics, lexicology (the structure and analysis of the lexicon/word) & lexicography (issues involved in publishing the lexicon in a dictionary format)
  • General and applied linguistics.

Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  • 1998. Computer Corpus Lexicography. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • 1997 Co-Chief Editor, Chief Editorial Consultant & Project Leader, Times-Chambers Essential English Dictionary (2nd edition), the first dictionary with the NUS emblem and published jointly between Chambers-Harrap PLC and Times Media Pte Ltd (now Marshall Cavendish International (Singapore) Pte Ltd) Edited by Elaine Higgleton and Vincent Ooi, this dictionary is a labour of love by a team that includes Anne Seaton, Vincent Ooi, Lubna Alsagoff, Bao Zhiming, Peter K W Tan, and Lionel Wee.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  •  Using the Web for lexicographic purposes, in Fuertes-Olivera P (ed) Routledge Handbook of Lexicography (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics series), London: Routledge, pp. 684-700
  • Lexicography and World Englishes, in Low E L and A Pakir (eds) World Englishes: Rethinking Paradigms (Routledge Studies in World Englishes series), London: Routledge, pp. 165-182.
  • 2014. with PKW Tan. 2014. Facebook, linguistic identity and hybridity in Singapore, in Rubdy R and Alsagoff A (eds) The Global-Local Interface and Hybridity: Exploring Language and Identity, Multilingual Matters, 225-244. 
  • 2010. Singaporean English, in Robertson A (ed) Collins Dictionary of the English Language. London: HarperCollins, p. 221.
  • 2009. Computer-mediated language and corpus linguistics, in Kawaguchi Y, M Minegishi and J Durand (eds) Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 103-120.
  • 2008 (with Wengao Gong) Innovations and motivations in online chat, in Kelsey S and K St. Amant (eds) Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication, New York: Information Science Reference, pp. 917-933

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

  • 2009 (ed) (with A Pakir, I Talib, and P Tan) Perspectives in Lexicography: Asia and beyond. Israel: K Dictionaries.
  • 2005 (ed) (with A Pakir, I Talib, L Tan, P Tan, and Y Tan) Words In Asian Cultural Contexts : Proceedings Of The 4th Asialex Conference (1-3 June 2005, M Hotel, Singapore). NUS: Department of English Language and Literature.

  • 2001 (ed) Evolving Identities: The English Language in Singapore and Malaysia, Singapore: Times Academic Press. 232 pages.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • 2010 English Internet lexicography and online dictionaries, in Lexicographica, 26(1),Berlin: de Gruyter, 143-154.
  • 2008 The lexis of electronic gaming on the Web: a Sinclairian approach, International Journal of Lexicography, 21 (3), 311-323. 
  • 2007. (first author, with P K W Tan and A K L Chiang) Analyzing personal weblogs in Singapore English: the WMatrix approach, in eVariEng (Journal of the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts, and Change in English), vol 2: Towards Multimedia in Corpus Studies. Finland: University of Helsinki. http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/02/ooi_et_al/

     

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Other Information

Editorial board member, Corpora: Corpus-based Language Learning, Language Processing and Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press

Editorial board member. Lexicography: Journal of Asialex. Springer

Vice-President, The Asian Association for Lexicography, 2017-2019

Programme Committe member, Corpus Linguistics 2017

2018. Invited keynote. The 23rd International Conference of the African Association for Lexicography (AFRILEX 2018), 27-29 June, Capetown: University of Western Cape

2017. Invited keynote, International Symposium on English Teaching (Theme: Reading Strategies, Writing Tools, and 'Standard English), Tainan University of Technology (19 May 2017)

2016. Invited plenary, The 10th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2016), Manila (1-3 June 2016)

2015. Invited keynote, International Symposium on Corpus Linguistics: New Perspectives, New Challenges, Tianjin University of Science and Technology (29-30 June 2015)

2013. Invited plenary, International Symposium on Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World (LCSAW)

2012. Invited keynote, International Symposium on English Teaching (Theme: Corpora, E-Learning and ESP), Tainan University of Technology (26 May 2012)

2012. Invited keynote,  International Language Education Conference (Theme: Language Education -- Application and Reflection), Transworld University (24-25 May 2012)

2010. Invited keynote, International Symposium on English Teaching, Tainan University of Technology (16 October 2010).

2010. Invited keynote, The First RI (RJC) ELL Symposium on Change and Variation in the English Language, Raffles Institution (8 October 2010).

2008. Invited plenary, The First International Symposium on Lexicography and L2 Teaching & Learning, Center for Lexicographical Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

2008. Invited plenary, The First International Symposium on Corpus and Variation In Linguistic Description And Language Education, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).

2007. Invited plenary, Symposium on Discourse in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts, University of Malaya (29 to 30 Nov, 2007).

 


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