LIU Ping |
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TITLE： |
Professor |
OFFICE TEL： |
86-20-36207154 |
E-Mail： |
200110438@gdufs.edu.cn |
Biography
Research Areas
Business Discourse Studies; Pragmatics
Education
09/2008-12/2012 Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China. Ph.D
09/2004-07/2005 Coventry University, UK. MBA
09/1995-05/1998 University of Polytechnological University of Northwest, China. M.A.
09/1984-07/1988 Heilongjiang August First Land Reclamation University, China. B.A.
Teaching
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Contemporary Business; Management; International Business; Cross-cultural Management
Graduate:
Cross-cultural Business Communication Studies; Business Discourse Studies
Publications (last ten years)
1) “Metapragmatic Expressions and Their Pragmatic Management in Institutional Discourse”, Modern Foreign Languages, 37(5), 2014, 638-646.
2) “Pragmatic Regulation and Positive Pragmatic Effects of Metapragmatic Comments — A Frame Analysis of the Host’s Utterances in Argumentative TV Talk Shows”, Foreign Language Education, 35(1), 2014, 26-30.
3) “Exploring Interpersonal Relation from the Perspective of Interpersonal Pragmatics”, with Yongping Ran, Foreign Language Education, 36(4), 2015, 1-7.
4) “Creating Meso-contexts: The Functions of Metapragmatic Expressions in Argumentative TV Talk Shows”, with Yongping Ran, Intercultural Pragmatics, 13(2), 2016, 283-307.
5) “The Role of Metapragmatic Expressions as Pragmatic Manipulation in a TV Panel Discussion Program”, with Yongping Ran, Pragmatics and Society, 7(3), 2016, 463-481.
6) “Book reviews: English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English”, Language and Intercultural Communication, 17(1), 2016, 79–80.
7) “Creating Common Ground: The Role of Metapragmatic Expressions in BELF Meeting Interactions”, with Huiying Liu, Journal of Pragmatics, 107, 2017, 1-15.
8) “The Functions of Metapragmatic Utterances in Relationship Management in Interpersonal Interactions between Strangers”, with Huiying Liu, Linguistic Research, 1, 2018, 29-41.
9) “The Roles of Revision-oriented Peer Evaluation as Pragmatic Intervention in Web-based ELF Communication”, with Huiying Liu, East Asian Pragmatics, 1, 2017, 75-99.
10) “Relational Turn of Pragmatics — Interpersonal Pragmatics: Research Scope, Objectives and Methodology”, Foreign Language Research, 5, 2017, 20-25.
11) “Responding to Direct Complaints：The Role of MPEs in Common Ground Construction in Institutional Telephone Interactions”, with Huiying Liu, Pragmatics & Cognition, 24 (1), 2017, 4–32.
12) “Intercultural Pragmatics in Multicultural Context”, with Yongping Ran, Foreign Languages in China, 115(4), 2018-27-33.
13) “Metapragmatic Comments in Web-based Intercultural Peer Evaluation”, with Xiaoye You, Intercultural Pragmatics, 16(1), 2019, 57–83.
14) “Common Ground and Metapragmatic Expressions in BELF Meetings: A Response to Zhang”, with Huiying Liu, Journal of Pragmatics, 148, 2019, 118-121.
15) “Complaint Responses: Metapragmatic Utterances and Negotiation Awareness”, with Yongping Ran, Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, 4, 2020, 11-24.
16) “Salience Adjusting: Metapragmatic Expressions in Complaint Responses”, with Huiying Liu, Journal of Pragmatics, 176, 2021, 150-163.
17) “Changes of (Im)Politeness Research from Linguistic Pragmatics to Interpersonal Pragmatics”, with Yongping Ran, Foreign Language Education ,42(4), 2021, 31-36.
18) “English as a lingua franca: The pragmatic perspective”, with Yongping Ran, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 53(5), 2021, 782-786.
19) “Metapragmatic Discourse in BELF Communication from a Socio-cognitive Perspective”, Science Press, 2021.
20) “Pragmatic manipulation of metapragmatic expressions in BELF meetings”, with Huiying Liu, Applied Pragmatics, 4(1), 2022, 92-118.
21) “Interpersonal Functions of Metapragmatic Expressions in International Business Meetings”, with Jialiang Chen & Linlin Yang, Foreign Languages in China, 19(3), 2022, 34-42.
22) “Inclusiveness and Integrativeness of Pragmatics”, with Yongping Ran & Linlin Yang, Journal of Foreign Languages, 45(4), 2022, 2-8.
23) “Interpersonal Strategies in International Business Emails: The intercultural Pragmatics Perspective”, with Huiying Liu, Intercultural Pragmatics, 20(5), 2023, 557-579.
24) “Co-Construction of Alliance through Polyphonic reported Speech in Chinese E-Commerce Live-Streaming Discourse for Public Welfare”, with Linlin Yang, Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, 5, 2023, 21-31.
25) “On the Latest Trends in New Media Business Discourse Research from the Socio-Pragmatics Perspective”, with Linlin Yang, Modern Foreign Languages, 47(2), 2024, 283-293.
26) “Building Interpersonal Closeness in Complaint Responses in Customer Service”, with Huiying Liu, East Asian Pragmatics, 9(1), 2024, 53-77.
Conference Presentations (last 3 years)
Affiliation in co-constructed oppositional speech acts: Forming oppositional alliances in mediated fundraising talks between the investors and entrepreneurs (with YANG Linlin), Hong Kong, China, May 2023
Ostensible offence in Chinese live-streaming commerce interactions, the 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels,Belgium, July 2023
Salience adjusting of MPEs in intercultural telephone interactions, the 5th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association, Vancouver, Canada, October 2022 (Online)
Metapragmatic Expressions as Common Ground Builder in Intercultural Business Communication, the 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, July 2021 (Online)
Current Research
Digital Business Discourse; The Metapragmatics of Business Communication; Intercultural Pragmatics and Interpersonal Pragmatics
