XU Zhanghong
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Professor
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francisxzh@aliyun.com.cn
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Biography
Research Areas
Pragmatics; Forensic Linguistics; Business English Studies; Metaphor Studies
Education
09/1999-07/2002 Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangdong,China. Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
09/1987-07/1990 School of foreign languages, Wuhan University,Hubei, China. M. A. in English Linguistics and Literature
09/1980-07/1984 Department of English language, Hubei Normal University, Hubei, China. B.A. English language and culture
Professional Experiences
04/2013- now ProfessorDepartment of International Economic Law, School of English for International Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
09/2002-10/2012 Associate Professor Department of International Economic Law, School of English for International Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
Teaching
Undergraduate:
Comprehensive English,AdvancedEnglish Writing, English Lexicography, English Phonetics, etc
Graduate:
Pragmatics in Business Context
Publications
Preliminary Analysis of English Active and Passive verbs, English Knowledge, Dalian University of Foreign Languages.1993
On the Concessive clauses in English. Journal of Hubei Normal University, 1994(4).
On the Fundamental Principles and Strategies of Paraphrase. Central China Normal University Press, 1994
The Cultivation of Intercultural and Cultural Sensitivity. Jjournal of Hubei Normal University; 1995(2).
On the Social-communicative functions of Euphemism. Journal of Hubei Normal University. 1996(4)
On the Syntax and Semantic Characteristics of Three Kinds of Of-Structure in English. Journal of Hubei Normal University, 1997( 4).
On the Different ways of Expressing the Notion of “immediateness” . Journal of Hubei Normal University;1997(3).
A Contrastive Studies of Principles of Complimenting in Chinese and Enlgish, Journal of Hubei Normal University, 1998(4).
Comment on Searl’s Theory of Indirect Speech Act. Journal of Hubei Normal University;1999(3).
Principle of Truthfulness and Metaphor , Journal of Huangshi Polytechnic School.2001(3).
The Philosophical Basis of Relevance Theory. Pragmatics and Cognition: Papers on Relevance Theory, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press;2001,
The Status of Natural Language in Human Cognition and thinking—Comment and introduction of Thinking and Language: Interdisciplinary Problems, Foreign Language Teaching and Research; 2001(6).
On the Similarities and Differences between Searl’s and Davidson’s Theories of Metaphor, Foreign Language and Culture Study;2001( 2).
Relevance Theory and Metaphotric Marker, Pragmatics: Theories and Analysis, Suzhou University Press;2002.
Pragma-Cognitive Explanation of “Garden-path”Phenomena, Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies;2004(3).
A New Core course of English for International Business (2th chief editor), China Machine Press.2004.
On the overinformativeness as a strategy of response in Chinese courtroom setting. Foreign Language Research. Journal of Nanking Institute of International Relations.2006(2).
A Pragma-Cognitive Approach to Metaphor Understanding. Beijing: Science Press. 2007.
Legal English Writing(Chief editor). Beijing: University of Foreign Economics and Trade. 2007.
Comprehensive Business English (3)(Chief editor). Beijing: HIgher Education Press. 2008.
Metapragmatic Awareness and metapragmatic Choices in English Argumentative Writing. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. 2010(12).
On the Cause of Mistaken Orientation in Hedges Research. Journal of XI’An Foreign Language Studies. 2012(7).
A Pragmatic Analysis of Verbal Wrangling. Modern Languages. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. 2012(8).
Conference Presentations
Combating Judicial Injustice. The 12thBiennial International Conference on Language and Law. International Association of Forensic Linguistics, Guangzhou, China, June 2015
Current Research
Pragmatics in Business Context, Detecting Deception in legal context.
