Carl Jon Way Ng

Dr Carl Jon Way Ng

Senior Lecturer, English Language and Literature Programme

School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences

Tel: +65 6240 8798

Email: Y2FybG5nandAc3Vzcy5lZHUuc2c=

Educational Qualifications

2013
PhD in Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK

2003
BA (1st class hons), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2002
BA with DipEd, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Academic and Professional Experience


2024 - Present

Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore

2020 - 2023
Head of Programme, School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore

2014 - 2020
Assistant Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2006 - 2007
Senior Head (Policy), Higher Education Division, Ministry of Education, Singapore

2003 - 2005
Lecturer, English Department, Jurong Junior College, Singapore

Journal Articles:

Ng, C.J.W. (2020)
Ng, C.J.W. (2020). Neoliberal recontextualizations and legitimations in a ‘post-Confucian’ state. World Englishes, 39(4), 638-652.

Ng, C.J.W. (2019)
'You are your only limit': Appropriations and valorizations of affect in university branding. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 23(2), 121-139.

Ng, C.J.W. (2018)
Performing brand identity: Situating branding in discursive-ideological landscapes. Consumption Markets & Culture, 21(2), 147-170.

Ng, C.J.W. (2018)
Skilling the nation, empowering the citizen: Neoliberal instantiations in Singapore's lifelong learning policy. Journal of Language and Politics, 17(1), 118-140.

Ng, C.J.W. (2016)
'Hottest brand, coolest pedagogy': Approaches to corporate branding in Singapore's higher education sector. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 26(1), 41-63.

Ng, C.J.W. (2014)
'We offer unparalleled flexibility': Purveying conceptual values in higher educational corporate branding. Discourse & Communication, 8(4), 391-410.

Ng, C.J.W. (2014)
Semioticizing capitalism in corporate brand enactment: The case of Singapore's corporatized universities. Critical Discourse Studies, 11(2), 139-157.

Ng, C.J.W. & Koller, V. (2013)
Deliberate conventional metaphor in images: The case of corporate branding discourse. Metaphor and Symbol, 28(3), 131-147.

Book Chapters:

Ng, C.J.W. (2022)
We are in this together’: Cultural branding and affective activations in a pandemic context. In S. Tan & M.K.L. E (Eds.), Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach (pp. 141-159). Routledge.

Ng, C.J.W. (2020)
Government policy, communication and (affective) governmentality. In M. Filimowicz & V. Tzankova (Eds.), Reimagining Communication: Action (pp. 54-70). London: Routledge.

Ng, C.J.W. (2019)
Governing (through) affect: A social semiotic perspective of affective governance in Singapore. In K. Rajandran & S.A. Manan (Eds.), Discourses of Southeast Asia: A Social Semiotic Perspective (pp. 23-43). Singapore: Springer.

Ng, C.J.W. (2018)
Constructing the ideal organization: Metaphor in higher education brand communication. In J. Pelclová & W. Lu (Eds.), Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives (pp. 207-223). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ng, C.J.W. (2018)
Metaphor. In J. Flowerdew & J. Richardson (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies (pp. 215-227). London: Routledge.

Ng, C.J.W. (2007)
Remaking a nation: Interrogating intertextuality in the Singapore national day rally speech 2002. In P. Teo & C. Ho (Eds.), Discourse in the Modern World (pp. 142-162). Singapore: McGraw-Hill.

  • (Critical) discourse studies
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Semiotic landscapes
  • Multimodal and visual communication
  • Conceptual metaphor
  • (Corporate) brand communication
  • Political and policy communication
  • Affect and affective governance
  • Neoliberalism and discourse
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