MA Bosen (1962－), Male, Professor of Linguistics
Vice Dean, School of International Studies at Zhejiang University
Director of the Institute of Linguistics, School of International Studies at Zhejiang University
Education
2002-2006 Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
1988-1991 Master of Arts in English Language and Literature at Hangzhou University
1980-1984 Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Xian Foreign Studies University
Research Interests：
Discourse Analysis，Systemic-Functional Grammar，Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics
Major Publications
1. Operational Tests: A Scientific Approach to Language Studies. Journal of Foreign Languages. 1994/5.
2. Towards a Discourse Model of Teaching Reading. Foreign Language Teaching and Research.
3. A Multirank and Metafunctional Interpretation of Grammatical Ambiguity in English. Journal of Foreign Languages. 1995b/6.
4. Discourse Analysis and Its Applications. Modern Foreign Languages. 1995c/1.
5. Discourse Analysis and Its Approaches. Foreign Languages and Their Teaching. 1999/3.
6. A Discussion on Some Issues concerning the Before Construction. Foreign Language Education. 2000a/4.
7. On the Use of Tenses and Aspects in English Complex Sentences. Journal of Zhejiang University: Humanities and Social Sciences Edition. 2000b/3.
8. Relevance Theory and Narrative Discourse. Modern Foreign Languages.
9. The Linguistic Framework of Studying Casual Conversation. Journal of Foreign Languages. 2001b/5.
10. Contrastive Discourse Studies in China. Foreign Languages and Their Teaching. 2002/10.
11. A Contrastive Study of the Distributional Patterns of Anaphoric Reference to Persons in Spontaneous Conversation between the Illiterate and Literate. Journal of Foreign Languages.
12. A Tripartite Approach to the Study of Reference to Persons in Spontaneous Conversation . Foreign Languages and Their Teaching. 2007b/6.
13. A Study of Strategies for Reference to Persons in Conversational Setting. Journal of PLA Foreign Languages University. 2007c/6.
14. A Study of Strategies for Reference to Persons Absent from Conversational Setting. Foreign Language Education. 2008/1.
15. Personal Reference Strategies by the Illiterate and Literate: a Contrastive Study. Contemporary Linguistics
16. Corpora and Corpus-based Discourse Studies. Journal of Foreign Languages. 2009b/3.
17. An Analysis of Pronominal Indirect Anaphora in Natural Chinese Discourse. Journal of Foreign Languages. 2010/2.
E-mail: mabosen@126.com
