Job title：Professor
Field of study：Functional Linguistics; Text Linguistics; Contrastive Rhetoric
Posts Held:
Vice Dean of SMU Foreign Languages College.
Education:
2003-6: PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Shanghai International Studies University;
2000-3: Master in English Linguistics and Literature at China University of Mining Technology;
1992-6: Bachelor in English Education at Nanjing Normal University
Publications:
A Syntax-semantics Interface Study of Causal Connectives. Journal of Foreign Languages, 2012(3):56-65.
A Syntax-Discourse Study of Topic Chains, Modern Foreign Languages, 2012 (2)111-117
A Semantic-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.
A Semantic-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 the correspondence between syntactic and semantic types. Foreign Languages Education, 2010(2): 19-22, 28.
Categorization of Graduation and Its Construction of Rhetorical Persuasion in Academic Discourse. Journal of Foreign Languages, 2008(6):33-40.
Attitude Evaluation: Inter-Subjective Construction of Persuasive Mode. Foreign Language Research, 2008(3):38-41.
Persuasion Across Genres: A Functional Linguistic Approach. Shanghai: Shanghai University Press, 2008. 361pp.
A Study of Generic Dynamism Oriented by Topology. Rhetoric Studies, 2008(1):19-24.
Beyond Deconstruction: Analyzing Motives of Discourse Act as Social Semiotic. Foreign Language Research, 2006(2): 20-23.
Evaluation: Growth Point of the Schematic Macrostructure TC in English & Chinese Research Article Abstracts of Finance and Economy Field. Foreign Languages Education, 2006(2): 18-21.
Ideational Meaning and Motives of Discourse Act, Foreign Languages Education, 2005(2):18-21 .
Construction of Discourse Context Frame in New Rhetoric. Foreign Language Research, 2005(2): 58-62.
Research Projects:
A Semantics-Syntax Interface Study of Chinese Structural Discourse Markers and their English Translation funded by the National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science, 2012-2015.
A Contrastive Study on English and Chinese Intersubjectivity Constructions and their Discourse Semantics funded by the Shanghai City Government, 2009-2011.
A Contrastive Study on English and Chinese Academic Discourse Semantics funded by the Shanghai Education Commission, 2006-2009.
A Study on Interpersonal Discourse and Rhetoric funded by Jiangsu Provincial Education Commission, 2004-2006.
Awards:
Fellowship of SMU Academics Excellence Program (6),
SMU Teaching Competition (3rd Prize), 2007,
SMU Luo Huang-feng Awardfor Excellent Doctors, 2007,
SMU Liu Hao-qing Award for Teaching Excellence (2nd Prize), 2009,
SMU Tutoring Excellence, 2009-2010,
SMU Academic Excellence, 2010, and
SMU Liu Hao-qing Award for Teaching Excellence (1st Prize).
