Job title：Professor
Field of study：Functional linguistics, text linguistics, comparative rhetoric
Posts Held:
Vice Dean of SMU Foreign LanguagesCollege.
Education:
2003-6: PhD inLinguistics and Applied Linguistics at Shanghai International StudiesUniversity;
2000-3: Master inEnglish Linguistics and Literature at China University of Mining Technology;
1992-6: Bachelorin English Education at Nanjing Normal University
Publications:
ASyntax-semantics Interface Study of Causal Connectives. Journal of Foreign Languages, 2012(3):56-65.
ASyntax-Discourse Study of Topic Chains, ModernForeign Languages, 2012 (2)111-117
ASemantic-Syntactic Interface Study of Constructions “X A Y let alone B” and“X(Lian) A Dou/Ye Y, Geng Bu Yong Shuo/Bie Shuo B”--- Based on cognitive. Languages in China, 2010(1): 38-46.
ASemantic-Syntactic Interface Study of “Lian” Construction in the Frame of “X(Lian) A Dou/Ye Y, Geng Bu Yong Shuo/Bie Shuo B”--- A reflection on thecorrespondence between syntactic and semantic types. Foreign Languages Education, 2010(2): 19-22, 28.
Categorization ofGraduation and Its Construction of Rhetorical Persuasion in Academic Discourse. Journal of Foreign Languages,2008(6):33-40.
AttitudeEvaluation: Inter-Subjective Construction of Persuasive Mode. Foreign LanguageResearch, 2008(3):38-41.
PersuasionAcross Genres: A Functional Linguistic Approach. Shanghai: Shanghai UniversityPress, 2008. 361pp.
A Study ofGeneric Dynamism Oriented by Topology. Rhetoric Studies, 2008(1):19-24.
BeyondDeconstruction: Analyzing Motives ofDiscourse Act as Social Semiotic. ForeignLanguage Research, 2006(2): 20-23.
Evaluation:Growth Point of the Schematic Macrostructure TC in English & ChineseResearch Article Abstracts of Finance and Economy Field. Foreign Languages Education, 2006(2): 18-21.
IdeationalMeaning and Motives of Discourse Act, ForeignLanguages Education, 2005(2):18-21 .
Constructionof Discourse Context Frame in New Rhetoric. ForeignLanguage Research, 2005(2): 58-62.
Research Projects:
ASemantics-Syntax Interface Study of Chinese Structural Discourse Markers andtheir English Translation funded by the National Planning Office of Philosophyand Social Science, 2012-2015.
AContrastive Study on English and Chinese Intersubjectivity Constructions andtheir Discourse Semantics funded by the Shanghai City Government, 2009-2011.
A ContrastiveStudy on English and Chinese Academic Discourse Semantics funded by theShanghai Education Commission, 2006-2009.
A Study onInterpersonal Discourse and Rhetoric funded by Jiangsu Provincial EducationCommission, 2004-2006.
Awards:
Fellowship of SMUAcademics Excellence Program (6),
SMU TeachingCompetition (3rd Prize), 2007,
SMU LuoHuang-feng Awardfor Excellent Doctors, 2007,
SMU LiuHao-qing Award for Teaching Excellence (2nd Prize), 2009,
SMU TutoringExcellence, 2009-2010,
SMU AcademicExcellence, 2010, and
SMU LiuHao-qing Award for Teaching Excellence (1st Prize).
