Arthur Lewis Thompson is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on how people learn and use imitation in spoken language and visual language (sign languages, hand gestures) to depict the world around us. He obtained his PhD in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong and his MPhil at the University of Cambridge. He is an active member of Write or Die, a writing collective on Lamma, and maintains a newsletter.
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