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Areas of Scholarship

Education

• B.A. (English and American Language and Literature), Fudan University , 1984, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Section of English Language and Literature
  Thesis supervisor: Professor XU Liejiong
• M.A.(Modern English),  Fudan University , 1987, Section of English Language and Literature
  Thesis supervisor: Professor XU Liejiong
• Ph.D.(Linguistics),  London University , 1995, Registration at Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College, London; also took many courses at Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and took some courses in applied logics at Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
  Supervisors: Professor Ruth KEMPSON; Professor Deirdre WILSON

Work Experience

Teaching

Supervision

Administrative Duties

• Departmental Learning and Teaching Committee, Chairperson  (2002-2008)
• Departmental IT Working Group, Chairperson   (2003-2008)
• MA Programme in Chinese Linguistics, Programme Leader  (since 2005)

Research Output

• (in preparation) 《走近形式语用学》 Approaching Formal Pragmatics
• 2008. 梯级模型与 "都" 的语义刻画(Scalar Model and the Semantic Characterization of “dou”)， 《语言的形式与功能》
• 2008. 《关联：交际与认知》（当代语言学理论丛书）（ Authorized translation of Dan Sperber & Deirdre Wilson (1995) Relevance: Communication and Cognition, Blackwell.）， 北京：中国社会科学出版社，1st Ed, 432pp ，ISBN 978-7-5004-7061-8/H .
• 2008. 关联理论的认知修辞学说 (上). [Relevance theory as Cognitive Rhetoric, I] 修辞学习, Vol. 147, No. 3, pp.1-9。
• 2008. 关联理论的认知修辞学说 (下). [Relevance theory as Cognitive Rhetoric, II] 修辞学习, Vol. 147, No. 4, pp.14-21。
• 2007. 隐含, 显义与显谓 (Implication, Explicature and Explicating). In 邵敬敏，张先亮, ed., 《汉语语法研究的新拓展 (3)》, 东北师范大学出版社, 长春, pp.74-90 (2007) ISBN 9787560248868
• 2007 《上海风情话》，香港理工大学、香港电台 联合出版。[Co-authored with 石定栩]
• 2005. 形式语用学与显义学说 - 兼谈显谓与汉语配价研究的关系(Formal Pragmatics and Explicature Theory)，载刘丹青(主编)《语言学前沿与汉语研究》，上海教育出版社， pp.143-170，ISBN 7544404633.
• 2005. 形式语用学与显义学说(Formal Pragmatics and Explicature Theory). In 熊学亮, 蔡基刚, ed., 《语言界面》, 复旦大学出版社, Shanghai, pp.140-178 (2005) ISBN 7-309-04640-4.
• 2005. Linguistic action verbs and logical prompting in political discourse. In Wolfgang Thiele, Joachim Schwend and Christian Todenhagen (eds.) Political Discourse: Different Media - Different Intentions – New Reflections. Stauffenburg Verlag. [Co-authored with Grundy, Peter.]
• 2005 《形式语义学引论》，北京： 中国社会科学出版社。1998 第一版； 2005 第二版 [Co-authored with 潘海华]
• 2005. 语用推理与“都”的句法／语义特征(Pragmatic Inference and the Syntactic/Semantic Characteristics of “dou”)， In 严辰松 高航, ed., 《语用学》, 上海外语教育出版社, Shanghai, pp.460-486 ,  ISBN 7-81095-508-X (Previous journal paper re-printed as book chapter).
• 2002. 论语用推理的逻辑属性 — 形式语用学初探，《外国语》，NO.3, pp.18 – 29。
• 2001. 语言水平测试中理解型试题的语用考察 《现代外语》, 第1期。
• 2001. The bare past as an ideological construction in Hong Kong discourse. In Rene Dirven, Roslyn Frank and Cornelia Ilie (eds.) Language and Ideology, Volume II: Descriptive cognitive approaches. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 117-134. [Co-authored with Grundy, Peter.]
• 2001. Ideological ground and relevant interpretation in a cognitive semantics. In Rene Dirven, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu (eds.) Language and Ideology: Vol. 1: Theoretical Cognitive Approaches. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, 107-140. [Co-authored with Grundy, Peter.]
• 2001. Abductive Reasoning as Pragmatic Inference -- Towards a Formal Theory of Pragmatics. In Studies in Chinese Linguistics, Volume II, (ed.) Haihua Pan. Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Book Series, 91 - 115.
• 2000. 汉语条件句的违实解释，《语法研究和探索》十， 北京：商务印书馆，pp.257 – 279。
• 1998. Remarks On Scope Interpretation in Chinese, in Gu, Yang (ed) (1998) Theoretical Explorations in Chinese Linguistics. Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
• 1998. A Procedural Account of Chinese Quantification. Studia Linguistica Serica. (ed.) Benjamin K. T'sou, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 415 - 429.
• 1998. 汉语语句的类型表达，载黄昌宁 主编《1998中文信息处理国际会议论文集》，北京： 清华大学出版社，323 - 329。
• 1998. 语用推理与'都'的句法／语义特征，《现代外语》，NO. 1，pp. 10 - 24。
• 1997. On the Semantic Content of Noun Phrases, in Xu, Liejiong. (徐烈炯) (ed.) (1997) The Referential Properties of Chinese Noun Phrases. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, pp. 3-24. [Co-authored with Pan Haihua (潘海华）and Zou Chongli (邹崇理) ]
• 1995. Logical Dependency in Quantification. Doctoral Dissertation. London University.
• 1993. Quantifier-Raising at LF, the Branching Quantifier Analysis, and Logical Dependency in Labelled Deductive Systems (Three Theories of Quantification), in SOAS Working Papers inLinguistics and Phonetics, Vol. 3, 228 - 258.
• 1993. ed. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, Vol. 3. Co-edited with Margaret Cobb.
• 1991. A Note on Huang's Head-Final Convention in Chinese, in UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 3. 33 - 64.
• 1989. Chomsky on Language and Knowledge, Selected Translation of Chomsky (1988) Language and Problems of Knowledge, 《国外语言学》, 1989, Issue 2, 73 - 76.
• 1987. Translation of Newmeyer "Has There Been a 'Chomskyan Revolution' in Linguistics?", 《国外语言学》, 1987, Issue 4, 154 – 155 + 180.
• 1986． Duplicate Sequence and Their Filters [同形词序列句及其鉴别式], 《现代英语研究》, Issue 2, 1986, Volume 15, Fudan University Press. 40 – 47.

Media Productions

• Language analyst, script writer, and footage transcriber for《中国语言文化系列》 [Chinese Language and Culture through Discourse] : A Six-Volume Video/VCD Series, 30 minutes per volume, dubbed in Cantonese, with transcription of Mandarin and Shanghainese and a user manual. Sponsored by the University Research Grant Council, Hong Kong. Jointly produced by the PolyU [Dept. of Chinese & Bilingual Studies] and Hong Kong Breakthrough Media Company. 1998
• Language analyst and script writer for 《反斗多声道: 两文三语直通车》，香港理工大学、香港电台电视部联合制作。2005年
• Teacher, script writer, and photographer for 《上海风情话》，香港理工大学、香港电台第5台联合制作。2007年。

Consultancy Work

• Member of Board of Advisory Editors, Contemporary Linguistics (Quarterly). Beijing
• Member of Board of Advisory Editors, Linguistics & Applied Linguistics - Modern Foreign Languages (Quarterly). Guangzhou.
• Member of Editorial Board, Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series. US.
• Member of Editorial Board, English Studies. Sichuan.

Reviewing Articles for the following journals

• Journal of East Asian Linguistics 《东亚语言学报》
• Contemporary Linguistics 《当代语言学》
• Modern Foreign Languages 《现代外语》
• Foreign Languages 《外国语》
• Foreign Language Teaching and Research 《外语教学与研究》
• Peking University Papers in Lingusitics 《语言学论丛》（北京大学中文系)

Invited Lecture Series

• Lectures on Formal Pragmatics, Summer Institute in Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics, Guangzhou Foreign Languages and Trading University, 1999.
• Modern Semantics, Advanced Summer Institute in Chinese Linguistics, Peking University, 2007.