Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics

Research Fields

Female Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis. Child Language Acquisition. One ministry level projects hosted by Chao LU is to be concluded in 2021. Current research projects include two translations and one book on the (de)legitimation of childless women identity construction in media discourses.

Education 

2018-2022  Ph.D candidate  School of Foreign Studies, USTB

2003-2005  Master Degree  School of Foreign Studies, Renmin University of China 

1999-2003  Bachelor Degree  School of Foreign Studies, Jilin University 

Oversea Exchange Experience

2015.10-2017.6 TCSL teacher and Intercultural activity organizer, Confucius Institute of De Montfort University, Leicester, England. 

2009.8-2010.6 Fulbright FLTA program, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida 

Selected Publications and Research Grants

Translation

The Geography of Wine: How Landscapes, Cultures, Terroir, and the Weather Make a Good Drop, Brian J. Sommers, to-be-published in 2022 by The Commercial Press. 

The Geography of Beer: Culture and Economics, Springer, to-be-published in 2022 by The Commercial Press. 

Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity, Cambridge University Press, published in 2021 by the Commercial Press. 

The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places, published in 2019 by The Commercial Press. 

Representatives of Research articles

SSCI &A&HCI, Review on Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global Context and Diverse Perspectives, International Journal of Communication, 2020(1)

CSSCI，A New Perspective of Language Science Development in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, China Publishing Journal, 2020(2).

The Cognitive Salience Construction of Embodied News Headline Metaphor: A Case Study of Chinese and British Media Coverage of the Belt and Road Initiative. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing (Social Science Edition), 2019(2). 

And Other 4 articles related to discourse analysis and pedagogical design.

Research Grants

2015-2018, Participant, A Study on the Construction and Expansion of College English Project-based Flipped Classroom Resources Based on Micro Courses by the Humanities and Social Science Project of the Ministry of Education (15YJA740022), 2015-2018, Participant, Closed.

Establishment and Empirical Research on the English-Chinese Bilingual Parameters Database of Story Vocabulary from the Perspective of Embodied Statistical Learning by the Humanities and Social Science Project of the Ministry of Education (18YJCZH113), 2018-2021, Host, Ongoing. 

Two-ongoing school level projects, 2017-2022, Host.