Yonggang Zhao

Assistant Professor

ADDRES：No.5, Dongfeng Road,  Zhengzhou,  Henan, China

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E-mail：zhao-yg@hotmail.com

Websites：http://wyx.zzuli.edu.cn/2020/0207/c4481a210705/page.psp

Research Interests:

Discourse Analysis, Social Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics

Education Background:

PhD: 09/2016-01/2020  National Research Center for Foreign Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University

MA: 09/ 2004-07/ 2007  School of Foreign Studies, Jilin University

BA: 09/2000-07/2004  School of Foreign Studies, Jilin University  

Courses offered:

English Writing (UG), Advanced English (UG), Introduction to Linguistics (UG), Corpus and Translation (PG)

Publications:

1. Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action. Discourse Studies, 2020(04). SSCI

2. Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse: Empirical Approaches. Discourse Studies, 2019(05). SSCI

3. A Contrastive Study of Chinese Corporate Images Constructed in Media M & A Discourse: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse-Historical Analysis. Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, 2021(01). CSSCI

4. Discourse Generation and Shaping of Public Opinion in Social Media: A Discourse Analysis around “China’s Sharp Power” in Zhihu. Journalism Lover, 2019(09). CSSCI

5. A Study of the Evolution of the Chinese Image Represented by Time Magazine from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing (Social Sciences Edition), 2017(05).

6. National Rhetoric in News Reportage:An Analysis of Reports on Occupy Central in People’s Daily Online. Youth Journalist, 2016(05).  GCJC

7. A Contrastive Study of Request Strategies Employed by Different Generations of Chinese. Foreign Language and Translation, 2009(01).

Funded Projects:

1. Research and Practice on Corpus and Translation Serving the International Communication of the Yellow River Culture, Henan Higher Education Teaching Reform Research and Practice Project (Degree and Graduate Education)(2021SJGLX113Y), Principal Investigator, 2022-2024

2. The Evolution of Discourses around the Yellow River (1995-2019), Humanities and Social Sciences Project of Henan Provincial Department of Education(2021-ZZJH-455), Principal Investigator, 2021-2023

3. A Study of National Opinions Based on Rhetorical Strategies against the Context of China-Foreign Sovereignty Conflicts, National Social Science Foundation(14BXW049), Key Researcher, 2014-2020

4. The Ecological Environment and Protection Strategy of Henan Dialect as Cultural Heritage in the Construction of Central Plains Economic Zone, Henan Soft Science Project(142400410321), Key Researcher, 2014-2016

5. Is What Exists Reasonable: A Critical Review of College English Teaching Reform Referring to CET Training by New Oriental, funded by Henan Federation of Social Sciences (SKL-2012-1353), Principal Investigator, 2012-2013

6. The Hypothesis of Context Absorption: An Integrated Analysis Model of Pragmatic Meaning, Humanities and Social Sciences Project of Henan Provincial Department of Education(2011-QN-260), Principal Investigator, 2011-2012

Honors:

1. Second Prize, National College Foreign Language Teaching Competition (Henan Province), 2021

2. First Prize, Is What Exists Reasonable: A Critical Review of College English Teaching Reform Referring to CET Training by New Oriental, funded by Henan Federation of Social Sciences, 2013

Academic Activities:

1. The International Conference on New Discourses around Contemporary China, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2021

2. The 6^th National Conference on Eco-linguistics, China University of petroleum, Beijing, 2021

3. The 17^th National Conference on Discourse Analysis, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2020

4. The 3^rd Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference，Beihang University, 2016