Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 27th-30th June 2018
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Presentation: "Surf on 4-inch stilettos": Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Mobile Phone Advertising

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University of Birmingham, 13th June 2018
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Poster: How companies communicate to consumers using the visual language of smartphone app design

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During my Master’s studies in English Language at the University of Birmingham, I discovered the UoB Sign Language Society; a society that organised 65 hours of tutored lessons in level 1 British Sign Language (BSL) over a course of night classes for 6 months. Sign Language and gesture has become a keen field of research for academic linguists. At the taster session, the sign language linguist Dr Adam Schembri from my department (English Language and Applied Linguistics) introduced the concept of deaf