Chair, Department of English Language and Literature

Professor of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

 

Research Fields:

 

Pragmatics; conversation analysis; and cognitive linguistics. Research projects include an optimality-based inferential model for relevance-theoretic verbal comprehension, a construction-grammar-approach to translation studies, Chinese structures of redundant negation from a cognitive perspective; and so on. Her current academic interest is accompanied medical conversations.

 

Education:

 

B.A. & M.A. 2005, Shanxi University; Ph. D. 2008, Fudan University

 

Selected Publications:

 

She is the author of more than 20 academic papers in Chinese and international journals. Her first-authored papers in the past three years include Turn allocation within the medical-service-seeking party in Chinese accompanied medical consultations, Conversational participation patterns of the patient-company alliance in accompanied medical interaction, Conversation analysis of the third party’s talk in doctor-patient interaction, A study on interruption in doctor-patient-companion communication, Reapproaching the Negative “Chadian’er＋mei + VP” Structure, and so on. Her book an optimality-based inferential model for relevance-theoretic verbal comprehension was published by three publishers both domestically (2011, 2020) and internationally (2016).

E-mail: yangzi@ustb.edu.cn

Tel:(86)10-62332446