Dr. HE Wenzhong, Associate Professor, PhD. MA Program supervisor in linguistics, TCFL, and MTI.
Educational background:
1986-1990 Department of English Language and Literature, Xiangtan University, Bachelor of Arts.
1990-1991 Pedagogy & Psychology, Hunan Normal University, On-the-job Training.
1993-1996 Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hangzhou University, Master of Arts
2001-2004 Shanghai International Studies University, PhD (in Linguistics)
2006-2010 National Research Center for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Post-doctoral Research
2008 Center for Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Post-doctoral Research.
Research interest:
Dr. Wenzhong He was well-trained to do linguistic studies in both Chinese and English. His major research interests include contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, lexicography and translation studies.
His specific interests at present are in the contrastive studies of middle constructions and their cognitive account, the corpus-based lexicological studies of English.
Courses offered
He offers courses to both undergraduates and graduates in two fields: Linguistics and Translation.
Linguistics:
Introduction to Linguistics; English Lexicology; Cognitive linguistics; Contrastive Linguistics; Corpus linguistics; Chinese Grammar.
Translation:
Introduction to Translation studies; Translation Theories; Computer-assisted Translation; Advanced English-Chinese Translation.
Publications:
Reviewed Journal articles:
2009. A corpus-based study of adverbial modifiers in English middle constructions. Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 4:250-257.
2009. Middle Constructions in English, German and Chinese: A Corpus-based Case Study of “read”. English Education in China, 3.
2007. The condition for middle formation. Foreign Language Teaching, 2:24-29.
2007. A Cognitive Account of Selection Restriction in Middle Formation. Foreign Language Research, 1:6-11.
2005. Defining Middle Constructions. Foreign Language Teaching, 4: 9-15.
2004. The Adjunct Middle Constructions in Chinese and West-Germanic Languages, Journal of PLA Foreign Languages University, 1: 21-25.
2003. On the Humor Principle in Verbal Communication. Foreign Language Teaching, 4:11-16.
Monograph:
2007. The Middle Constructions in Chinese and West-Germanic Languages: Toward a Unified Cognitive Account. Beijing: Science Press.
Co-authed books:
forthcoming: Cambridge English Grammar for Beginner Learners in China. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press （editor and major contributor）.
2006. A Survey of Contrastive Studies on English-Chinese Grammar in the 20th Century. In Xu, Gaoyu & Zhang, Jianli. (ed.) Contrastive Studies of Chinese and Foreign Languages in 20th Century. Beijing: Higher Education Press. (major contributor)
Literary Translation:
1. 2008. Keep going (by JOSEPH MARSHALL III). Hangzhou: Zhejiang Wenyi Publishing House.
2. 2006. The House of Arden (by Edith Nesbit). Hangzhou: Zhejiang Wenyi Publishing House.
Conferences and talks
2007. Lecturer at the Workshop on Corpus Linguistics and foreign language teaching and research (organized by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press) , Beijing.
2004,5. The 3rd National symposium of Cognitive Linguistics. Chongqing: Sichuan University of International Studies. Paper submitted: The Cognitive Motivation of Middle Constructions.
2005.12. Understanding Language, invited talk at Hangzhou Foreign Language School.
2006.5. The 4th National symposium of Cognitive Linguistics. Nanjing: Nanjing Normal University. Paper submitted: A Cognitive Account of the Selection Restriction in Middle Formation.
Research Programs
2010 A Study of the Compilation of Digitalized Chinese Learners’ Dictionary. Humanities Promotion Research Program for Young Scholars, Faculty of Humanities, Zhejiang University. (Key research program) (sole undertaker)
2010-2014 The Compilation of Super-large English-Chinese Parallel Corpus. National Social Science Fund Key research program. (joint undertaker)
2010 A Large-scale Corpus-based Study of the Productivity and Regularity of English Affixes. Humanities Promotion Research Program for Young Scholars, Faculty of Humanities, Zhejiang University. (sole undertaker)
2009 A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Middle Constructions. Humanities Promotion Research Program for Young Scholars, Faculty of Humanities, Zhejiang University. (sole undertaker)
2006-2007 A Cognitive Account of Middle Constructions. Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Fund Program (06CGYY09YBG). (sole undertaker)
2006-2008. FLTRP English Grammar Program. FLTRP.(506601－T20703)
2006-2008 FLTRP-Cambridge English Grammar. Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Fund Program (07CGWY002Z, major undertaker).
2002-2004 A Contrastive Studies of Chinese and English Middle Constructions. Zhejiang University Dawning Youth Fund Program（206000-584109）. (sole undertaker)
1998-2000 A Valence Syntax Descriptive Model of Chinese Sentential Patterns. Hangzhou University Tung Chee Hwa Social Science Fund Program（U29802）. (sole undertaker)
1998，Chinese Valence Syntax. Hangzhou University Science Fund.（Y5419806119）. (sole undertaker)
2001-2002，Contrastive Studies of Chinese and Foreign Languages in 20th Century. Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Fund Program （N95115, joint undertaker）.
1998-2000，Prosody in Modern Chinese. National Natural Science Fund Program. （60175021, joint undertaker).
1998-2000，Prosody in Modern Chinese. Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Fund Program （joint undertaker）.
Contact me：
Email：donhwz @zju.edu.cn
MSN：donhwz @ hotmail.com
QQ: 823540586
Mobile phone: 86-136-0580-3421
Blog: http://greedytiger.blog.sohu.com/
