CHEN Weiying
Ph.D Supervisor, MA Supervisor
Research experience/interests
discourse referents and coherence; usage-based effects on language and cognition; language production and comprehension
Education
2009 Ph.D, Zhejiang University, Cognitive and Pragmatic Studies of Subject Ellipsis in Chinese
2001 MA, Zhejiang University, Exploring Listening Strategies among EFL Learners
1993 BA, Zhejiang University, English Euphemism
Working Experience
2010– now, Associate professor, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Teaching Non-English major postgraduate English
Currently supervisor of 1 Ph.D student and 2 MA students
1998-2010 Lecturer, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Teaching Non-English major postgraduate English
1993-1998 Teaching Assistant, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Teaching Non-English major postgraduate English
International Contacts
2008 (Feb-May) Exchange Ph.D program, UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2011-2012 Visiting scholar, UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Projects
2010 Cognitive and Pragmatic Study of Subject Ellipsis in Chinese and English for Natural Language Processing, Ministry of Education Grant
2005 Cognitive, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives of Ellipsis Studies, Education Office of Zhejiang Province Grant
Awards
2012 Distinguished Young Scholar, Zhejiang University
2010 Third Prize of Zhejiang University Dong’s Humanities Research Fund
2009 Second Prize of Higher Education National Teaching Achievement
2009 First Prize of Provincial Teaching Achievement
2009 Third Prize of Provincial Research Achievement
2008 First Prize of Zhejiang University Teaching Achievement
Papers
1. The Effect of Grammatical Roles and Discourse Topichood on Referent Prominence, Journal of Zhejiang University, 2013 (1): 122-134, first writer and co-written with Pim Mak and Ted Sanders (UU)
2. The Texture of Discourse: Towards an Outline of Connectivity Theory (Book Review)， Discourse & Society, 2011(22): 503-504
3. A Novel Pattern Matching Method for Chinese Metaphor Identification and Classification, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence Third International Conference, AICI 2011, Part III, LNAI 7004, fourth writer of five
4. English Teaching for Professional Degrees in the Perspective of “Professionalization of Disciplines”, Higher Education of Sciences, 2009 (4): 157-159
5. Translation of Subject Ellipsis in Tang Poetry, Journal of Zhejiang University, 2006 (6): 177-186
6. Ellipsis and Economy, Journal of Zhejiang University, 2006 (6): 177-183
7. Cognitive, Computational and Communicative Needs versus Expansion of Language Studies, Journal of Taiyuan University of Technology, 2006 (1): 71－75
Books
1. Cognitive and Pragmatic Study of Subject Ellipsis in Modern Chinese, Zhejiang University Press,2007, ISBN 978-7-308-07007-2
2. General English Course for Professional Master Students, Zhejiang University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-7-308-05340-2
3. Practical Communication Skills, Zhejiang University Press, 2005, ISBN 7－308－04533－1/H · 364
Translation
A Journey to the Heart of a Black Hole – and into one of the Greatest Mysteries of the Universe, Zhejiang University Press, 2002, ISBN 7-308-02864-X/P·007
Presentations
1. From dependence to independence: A brief history of Chinese linguistics from the 19th to the 21st century, 89th Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 2015 , Portland, Oregon, USA, January 8-11, 2015
2. Expressing conditionality in Mandarin Chinese: A comparative study of ruguo and zhiyao, 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of California (NACCL-27), Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA, April 3-5, 2015
