LUKE Kang Kwong Kapathy 陸鏡光 (Corresponding Fellow)
Fields of study:
Interaction between tone and intonation, prosody in conversational interaction, conversation analysis, English and Chinese grammar, Chinese Linguistics. history and structure of Cantonese, language and cognitive Neuroscience, Corpus Linguistics, and Natural Language Processing.
Profile:
K.K. Luke is Professor Emeritus and President’s Chair in Linguistics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
K.K. has done work in a number of areas of linguistics, including Phonology, Syntax, Sociolinguistics and Natural Language Understanding. The main focus of his recent research is on talk and social interaction using Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. This research explores the ways in which joint actions are achieved through talk and body language, and is driven by the fundamental question of what makes communication possible. How are intersubjective understandings achieved in interaction and what role do linguistic and embodied resources play in that process?
Among Professor Luke’s publications are Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation, Telephone Calls: Unity and Diversity in the Structure of Telephone Conversations across Languages and Cultures, and three special issues on ‘Turn-continuation in conversation’, ‘Affiliation and Alignment in Responding Actions’, and ‘Joint Construction of Turns in Conversation’.
Professor Luke is an Editor of Chinese Language and Discourse: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal and an editorial board member of several professional journals and book series.