Robert Neal St. Clair has retired as a professor of Linguistics, English, Humanities, and Communication at the University of Louisville where he taught for over four decades. In his third year as a faculty member, he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an interdisciplinary program in Linguistics. He began that venture with his colleagues in Psychology, Philosophy, Literature, Systems Science and Education. He later added the disciplines of Sociology, Geography, and Communication. These interactions involved many hours of team-teaching, attending classes, and special meetings to argue over theoretical issues.

St. Clair was asked to join the Department of Communication because of his interest in intercultural communication. He served for over a decade as the Executive Director of the International Association for Intercultural Communication. He also served as the Vice President and the President of that organization. IAICS was gracious in awarding him with an honorary Festschrift on his 82nd birthday.

The Festschrift provides a summary of his publications. They include over 72 authored, and edited books that have to do with the concept of interdisciplinarity, intercultural communication, linguistic theory, bilingual communication, and so on. They are listed in the appendix. This whole journey began with the study of culture. His grandparents were immigrants to the United States. As a consequence he spoke Portuguese as a child. However, he lived in a multilingual community and shared in their languages: Japanese, Ilocano (Filipino), Hawaiian, and Hawaiian Creole. He learned English when attended elementary school. He was born and raised in Hawaii and was there during the Second World War. Pearl Harbor was a personal event for him and his neighbors. After the war, he travelled to Japan with his family to join his father, a major in the US Army. They then went on to South Korea where they spent a year as a military family. This brought him into contact with the Korean language. Upon returning to Hawaii, St. Clair continued to study languages because they provided him with great insight into people and their cultures. By the time that he received his BA degree, he had studied French, Spanish, Italian, German, Sanskrit, and Pali (the dialect that Buddha spoke). In graduate school at the University of Washington, he received a MA in linguistics and added a formal course on Japanese. While attending several Summer Linguistics Institute, he learned Rumanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Hittite, and Zend Avesta. While at the University of Washington, he was introduced to field work on several of the indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest: Skagit, Lummi, and later Yakima, and Wanapam (a related Sahaptian language). He did his doctorate on the Eskimo language at the University of Kansas. This journey began with the study of culture. It shifted to the study of Indo-European Linguistics ended up as a degree in theoretical linguistics and anthropological linguistics? He has been working on Polynesian and Melanesian Syntax: Hawaiian, Samoan, Tahitian, Maori, Rapa Nui, Tongan, and Fijian. The website serves to open up the field of interdisciplinary linguistics to others. Linguistics is a social science and it shares many concepts with these disciplines. St. Clair has found sociology to be an important link between all of these language-related disciplines. He has expressed some of these connections in his web pages. Others will be added later. He wants to make linguists aware of the social nature of language. Linguistic theory should incorporate many of these social functions and structures in its theoretical base. By doing so, it would provide linguistic theory with greater explanatory power. St. Clair,has been associated with many disciplines and has taught a range of courses across departments: English Linguistics, Educational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Systems Theory, Linguistics, Sociology, and Communication. Communication Theory Comm340. Introduction to Visual Communication Comm440. Intercultural Communication Comm675. Seminar of Visual Communication Comm690. Seminar on Visual Culture. Comm690. Graduate course on Intercultural Theory. Comm690.Language, Culture & Society. Comm630. Multicultural Communication Communication690. Cultural Metaphors Linguistics Program Ling518. Foundations of Language

Linguistics 522. Structure of the English Language Ling534. Historical Linguistics Ling618. The Structure of Language X: Japanese Ling618. The Structure of Language X: Maori Ling618. The Structure of Language X: Swahili Ling618. The Structure of Language X: Yupik Eskimo Ling603. Syntax Ling606 Historical and Comparative Linguistics Ling610 Phonetics and Phonology Ling621. Sociolinguistics. Ling673 Cultural Semiotics Ling690, Thesis Humanities Department Hum675. Cultural Metaphors Hum630. Semiotics of the Novel Eng520. Old English Eng530 Middle English Hum671. Cultural Theory: From the Renaissance to Modernity Hum690: Dissertation Medical School Physiology680: Acoustic Phonetics Systems Theory Sys620. Axiomatic Model of linguistics. Sys621. Consensus model of Linguistics Sys630. Philosophy of Systems theory Sys660. Language and Social Systems DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 1974 Mary Ann Warns, Doctoral Dissertation, Psychology, University of Louisville 1974 Kathy Meyer, Doctoral Dissertation, Foreign Language Education, Graduate School, University of Louisville

1975 Roberta Sands, Doctoral Dissertation Committee, School of Social Research, University of Louisville 1979 Mary Ann Matthews, Doctoral Dissertation, School of Education, University of Louisville 1982 Dorothy Broaddus, Doctoral Dissertation, Rhetoric and Composition, English Department, University of Louisville 1983 Dorothy Lewis, Doctoral Dissertation, Rhetoric and Composition, English Department, University of Louisville 1983 Sally Nelson, Doctoral Dissertation, Rhetoric and Composition, English Department, University of Louisville 1989 William Lane, Doctoral Dissertation, Rhetoric and Composition, English Department, University of Louisville 1985 John Spurlock, Doctoral Dissertation, Rhetoric and Composition, English Department University of Louisville 1992 Celeste Nichols, Doctoral Dissertation, Rhetoric and Composition, English Department University of Louisville. Doctorate on The Rhetoric of the Black Church. Awarded 1992. Rhetoric and Composition, English Department. Dissertation Director - St. Clair 1993 Joseph Capadanno,, Doctoral Dissertation. Rhetorical Examination of the Adverus Haereses by Iraneus of Lyon. Awarded 1992. Rhetoric and Composition, English Department. Dissertation Director - St. Clair 1994 David Beverly, Doctoral Dissertation in Music History, Semiotic Analysis of the Operas of John Adams, School of Music (University of Kentucky & University of Louisville - Joint Doctorate Program) 1995 Mark Johnson, Doctoral Dissertation, Rhetoric and Composition, English Department 1966 Betty Sheldon, Language Planning and Rhetorical Theory, Doctoral Dissertation, English Departtment. 2006 Mark Lai, Teaching Culture as Metaphor to Adult Learners in English as a Foreign Language Curriculum. Robert N. St. Clair and Ellen McIntyre, Dissertation Co-Directors, School of Education. Graduated 2007 2007 Gary Michael Collins, When Fear Succeeds: The Interaction of Stereotype Threat with Indicators of Job Performance. Dr. Stringfield, Dissertation Director. Robert N. St. Clair, member of Committee, Educational Psychology. 2008 Kerri Horine. Tattoos as Visual Metaphors. Doctorate in the Humanities. Robert N. St. Clair, Dissertation Director Defense: August 4, 2008 2008 Tara Tuttle, The Fall as Metaphor in 20th Century Literature of the American South. Dr. Annette Allen, Dissertation Director; Dr. Robert N. St. Clair, Member of the Committee. Humanities Doctoral Program.

2008 Becky Lee Meadows, The Consciousness of Damnation: A Hermeneutical Phenomenology of the Fall of the Self in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk. Member of Dissertation Committee. Defended in November 2008 2008 Shi Tangyuan. Working Class British Films 1900-2000. Identity, Culture, Ideology. Doctorate in the Humanities, Robert N. St. Clair, Dissertation Director. Completion Fall 2008 2009 Lihong Wu, Comparative Study of the Female Archetypes between East and West. Doctorate in the Humanities, Robert N. St. Clair, Dissertation Director. Completion: Fall 2009. 2010 Xiujie Sun. The Marketing of Cultural Traits in Intercultural Communication. Doctorate in the Humanities. Robert N. St. Clair, 2010 Chun Jiang. Critical Metaphoric Analysis of Illustrated Prints in China. Robert N. St. Clair, Dissertation Director. Doctorate in the Humanities. 2011 Qing Ma. Feminine Advertisements in China. Robert N. St. Clair, Dissertation Director. Doctorate in the Humanities. 2011 Jia, Xuelai. Doctoral Dissertation, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Australia, 2010. Xuelai Jia, Perceptions, Practices and Contexts: Self Construction and Transformation of English Teachers from a North-Eastern Chinese University. June 2010 2012 Meng, Hongdong. A Socio-Cognitive Approach to Metaphor: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Doctorate in the Humanities. Robert N. St. Clair, Member of Dissertation Cimmittee I also taught in the Humanities Doctoral Program in conjunction with the University for Foreign Studies in Beijing, PRC. The faculty were flown to China where they taught the graduate program. The students attending those courses received their doctorates from the University of Louisville. St. Clair directed several dissertations in this overseas program.

I also taught several times at universities in Tokyo, Japan

Visiting Scholars working with Robert N. St. Clair

Doctoral students and post doctoral fellows are associated with the Institute from time to time. They work with fellow members of the institute. Some of them are cited infra.

Wang Song Professor Song Wang 2007-2008 Dr. wang Song Wang Associate Professor (2005- ) School of Foreign Languages, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, PR China Ph.D (June, 2008) Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, PR China Dissertation Supervisors: Deming Mei & Yuxin Jia Dissertation topic: Intercultural Communication Concerns: Interactions between American Advisors and Chinese Graduate Students in Educational Contexts Visiting Professor (Feb. 2007- Feb. 2008) University of Louisville Supervisor: Dr. Robert N St Clair Research grant was from China Scholarship Council (CSC) Dissertation Director: Proj. YuXin Jia, Harbin Institute of Technology

Dr. Marcos Rogerio Cintra

Marcos Rogério Cintra 2008-2009

Dr. cintra Marcos Rogerio Cintra Ph.D. in Linguistics (Ongoing). State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Institute of Language Studies (IEL). Research Grant from FAPESP (The State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation) and Capes (The Brazilian Ministry of Education’s Coordination Department for Higher Education Personnel Improvement). Marcos Rogerio Cintra currently researches the expression of futurity in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, especially the emergency of periphrastic forms. Other research interests include cognition, language, grammaticalization. E-mail: cintramr@gmail.com Dissertation Director: Dr. Ingedore Grunfeld Villaça Koch (UNICAMP) University of Louisville Supervisor: Robert N. St. Clair

Dr. Yu Li Meng

Dr. Meng yu li 2008-2009 Associate professor College of Arts, Journalism & Communication, Ocean University of China, 23 Eastern Hongkong Road, Qingdao, 266071, PRC. Supervisor: Robert N. St. Clair, University of Louisville Academic Biography Research Interests and Publications Educational Background: Ph.D. (2004), Comparative literature, Shandong Normal University. M.A. (1999), English, Shandong Normal University.

B.A. (1991), English, Liaocheng University. Professional Experience: 2008( september) -2009(January), Visiting scholar of Institute for Intercultural Communication, Communication Department , University of louisville. 2004 - Present, Associate Professor, Communication & Journalism Department, Ocean University of China. 1999-2004, Lecturer, English Department, Shandong Administrative Cadre College. 1991-1996, Teaching Assistant, English Department, LinYi University. Specializations: Intercultural Communication Comparative Literature English Poetry

Mo Jialin

Jialin Mo 2008-2009 Ph.D. Candidate, National Research Center for Foreign Language Education Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, PR of China Supervisor, Robert N. St. Clair, University of Louisville PUBLICATIONS: Functional Discourse Analysis of Four English versions of Chinese Poem in Tang Dynasty [C], in Foreign Language and Linguistics, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Social Sciences Press, 2006. Arguments over Saussure’s Principle of Arbitrariness and its Philosophical Basis [J], Journal of Shaanxi Normal University, 2006, 3. A Systematic Evaluation of New Horizon English [J], Foreign language Education, special issue, 2006. My recent research interest lies in cognitive linguistics esp. metaphorical mapping, basic-level category and dead metaphors. Metaphors are really intriguing and I hope I can make my own contribution to the metaphorical research by analyzing Chinese linguistic data and testifying some language-specific and cultural-specific

factors in metaphorical interpretation.

Dean Yue Xihua, Ph. D.

Xihua Yue 2012 Dr. Yue Professor College of Foreign Languages Northeast Forestry University Hexing Road 15 Xiangfang District, Harbin Heilongjiang Province, P.R. China, 150040 Responsibility: Teaching, Research and Management

PhD Candidate：Shanghai International Studies University

Shanghai, P.R. China Visiting Scholar (Feb.2012—Aug.2012) of Communication Department of College of Arts and Sciences, University of Louisville University of Louisville Supervisor: Dr. Robert N. St. Clair Research Grant Comes from China Scholarship Council (CSC) Affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the P. R. China. Interests of Research Culture, Intercultural Communication, Metaphor and Translation Membership in Professional Organizations Member of China Association for Intercultural Communication Executive Director of Heilongjiang Society for Business English Studies

Member of Harbin Translation Association Publications Books (edited with others) A Coursebook of Audiovisual English News Harbin: Northeast Forestry University Press (to be published soon), 2012 New Headway College English Reading and Basic Writing Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2011 New Reading Course in the Latest British and American News Publications Harbin: Northeast Forestry University Press, 2008 World Overview Harbin: Harbin Engineering University Press, 2004 College English Listening Series Harbin: Harbin Engineering University Press, 2004 A Dictionary of Modern English Idioms Beijing: Beijing Science and Technology Press, 2002 New College English Vocabulary and Structure Harbin: Harbin Engineering University Press 1999 College English Grammar Harbin: Northeast Forestry University Press, 1997 Periodical Papers A Study of Conceptual Metaphors in Business Discourse Beijing Electric Power College, 2012.1 National Traits of Metaphors in English and Chinese Idioms Heilongjiang Social Sciences, 2009.3 Cultural Overlapping in English and Chinese Metaphors Teaching and Management, 2009.12 Cultural Analysis of English and Chinese Metaphors Related to Race Journal of Writers, 2009.7 Culture Teaching of College English from the Perspective of Metaphors Journal of Heilongjiang College of Education, 2009.8 Analysis of Cultural Similarities of Conceptual Metaphors between English and Chinese Journal of Writers, 2009.6 News English Teaching Based on Multimedia and Network Science & Technology Information 2008.8 Comparison between the Seemingly Equivalent Metaphors in English and Chinese Journal of Heilongjiang College of Education, 2008.6 Study of Formative Evaluation of College English Teaching Based on Network China’s Forestry Education, 2008.5 Comparison of English and Chinese Metaphors in Intercultural Communication Journal of Heilongjiang College of Education, 2007.7 A Study of Strengthening Construction of Second Foreign Language Classroom China’s Forestry Education, 2004.2 Study on Optimization of Stir Head for FSW Based on Genetic Algorithm Springer 2006.6 A Study of Learner-centered College English Intensive Reading Teaching Journal of Heilongjiang College of Education, 2002.5 Differences of Cultural Implications in English and Chinese Words Journal of Aviation Education, 2002.6 Importance of Contexts in Translation Practice Journal of Jiamusi University (Social Science), 2002.2

Dr. Ning Wang

Ning Wang 2013-2014

wang-ning Lecture Foreign Languages Department Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin, PR China Member of China Association for Intercultural Communication Member of National Association Of Foreign Language Education (in China) Interests of Research : Intercultural Communication, Teaching English as a second language

Publications Books (translated books with others) 1.Touching the Soul of Classic -- As far as Traveled (Travel articles). Dalian:Dalian University of Technology Press, 2012 2.Touching the Soul of Classic -- What Young People Worry about(Inspirational articles). Dalian:Dalian University of Technology Press, 2012 3.Friendship for All Seasons.Beijing: Capital Normal University Press, 2008. Articles: 1. Wang Ning, Wang Yi, An Enquiry into Cultivating Intercultural Nonverbal Communicative Competence in College English Teaching. Shanghai Foreign Language Educartion Press. 2012.3 2. Wang Ning. A Study on Autonomous College English Learning. Journal of Changsha University, Changsha University Press, 2012.1 3. Wang Ning. Empirical Study on Team Corporative Learners' Language Anxiety in College English. Teacher Education Research. Beijing Normal University Press. 2010.5 4. Wang Ning.The Embodiment of Tenor in Obama’s Inaugural Address. Journal of Southwest Agriculture University. Southwest Agriculture University Press. 2009.12 5. Wang Ning. Comparison and Application in Advertising between Western Countries and China. China Media Research. 2007.4 Research Projects Intercultural Communication Theory, Cultural borrowing and assimilation in the age of modernity

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