- Phillip Hamrick
Phillip Hamrick is a graduate student in
Cognitive Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor (Bangor University ). He has also taught English atYoungstown State University and has given seminars and guest lectures at Kent State University (on Japanese music) and Lunghwa University, Taiwan (on Principled Polysemy and Force Dynamics in Phrasal Verbs).Biography
----Phillip Hamrick was born July 20, 1983 in Charleston, West Virginia. "West Virginia," he says, "taught me a lot about what I didn't ever want to be."
He received a BA and MA in English Linguistics from Youngstown State University under
Salvatore Attardo and Steven Brown. He is currently at the University of Wales, Bangor, studying under Vyv Evans. His work centers on extending insights from Cognitive Linguistics toApplied Linguistics in L1 and L2 pedagogy. He continues to work on describing the role of cognitive mechanisms and construal operations in humor theory. He also has secondary interests inNeuroscience ,Natural Selection ,Neurolinguistics ,Psycholinguistics andCognitive Science .In 2008, he was awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship for research into improving language learning.
He is an outspoken atheist, and is currently working on a fast-facts book of atheism.
Bibliography
----"Post Impressions" "Denver Syntax (2006)"
"The Heart's Winter" "Istanbul Literature Review (2007)"
"The Tub" "Southern Gothic (2007)"
"Wait and See" "Oregon Literary Review (2007)"
"Incoming" "Gone in 60: Screaming Media Productions, Brooklyn (2007)"
"Notes on Some Cognitive Mechanisms of Humor" in "New Approaches to the Linguistics of Humor: Salvatore Attardo and Diana Popa, Editors (2007)"
"Empirical Evidence for Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Instruction of Auxiliary Selection in the Italian Passato Prossimo." with Salvatore Attardo. In De Knop, S. (ed.) Cognitive Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009."
"Cognitive Linguistics in English L1 Instruction: Two Empirical Tests" (forth.)Links
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