Job title：Professor
Field of study：cognitive linguistics, pragmatics and English-Chinese contrastive studies, and the like
Posts Held:
Executive memberof China Cognitive Linguistics Association, director of China English Teaching& Research Association, director of the Chinese Language Education ResearchAssociation.
Former Dean ofForeign Languages College of Hangzhou Normal University, executive director ofZhejiang Foreign Language Association, chair of Hangzhou Foreign LanguageAssociation. Also former vice dean of Foreign Languages College of ChongqingUniversity, director of Chongqing Translation Association, director of ChongqingForeign Language Association, editor of Journalof Chongqing University (Social Sciences), and editor of the Foreign Language and Literature ResearchJournal.
Education:
PhD in Englishlanguage and literature of Fudan University
Research Interests:
Cognitivelinguistics, pragmatics, and English-Chinese contrastive studies.
Publications:
60-plus papers inacademic journals including ForeignLanguage Teaching and Research and ForeignLanguages.
7 monographs: Explorations of Contemporary Linguistic Theoriesand Practices(1999), A Survey ofHistorical Comparative Linguistics(2000), Language, Cognition and Information Processing(2007), Pragmatic and Cognitive Studies ofLinguistic Phenomena(2007), AContrastive Study of Request Strategies in English and Chinese(2007), Theories and Applications of ContemporaryLinguistics(2010) and Theories andApplications of Contemporary Linguistic Cognition(2012).
Research Projects:
A NationalSocial Science Fund project (2012), and 4 provincial and ministerial projects.
Awards:
6 provincial andministerial research awards.
Academic Activities:
Lecturing at over 10 higher-education institutionslikeZhejiangUniversity,National University of Defense Technology, Henan University andChinaJiliangUniversity. Offering such courses as general linguistics, pragmatics, Englishlexicology, stylistics and academic paper writing to undergraduates andpostgraduates. A senior visiting scholar at the Linguistics Department,Colorado University from August, 2012 to August, 2013. An onlinePhD-dissertation evaluation expert of the Ministry of Education Degree andPostgraduate Education Development Center under the State Council Degree Officesince 2013. A special evaluation expert for the academic journal Foreign Studies of Henan Universitysince 2013. A special evaluationexpert for Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (Social Science Edition) and as a anonymous evaluation expert for Journal of PLA University of ForeignLanguages since 2014.
