1. Personal Information

Ling Zhang，born on July 21,1975, Guizhou Province

Nationality: China

Email：zhling@nwsuaf.edu.cn

PhD, MA supervisor, professor of linguistics and philosophy of language at Northwest A&F University

Research interests: translation, linguistics, philosophy of language, generics and epistemology

2. Education Background

Jan.2013-

Part-time Post-PhD at Henan University, Kaifeng, China

Sep. 2007-Jun.2010

PhD at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Sep. 2003-Jun.2005

MA at Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China

Sep. 1995-Jun.1999

BA at Suzhou Railway Normal College, Suzhou, China

3.Teaching

MA courses

Scientific methods and thesis writing, Semantics, Advanced readings in translation studies, Contrastive linguistics and translation, Philosophy of language.

BA courses

Western civilization, Literary translation, Introduction to Linguistics, Translation theory and practice, Advanced English writing, Introduction to scientific methods and thesis writing, Advanced English.

Publication

4.Projects

1.A corpus-based translation study of generic constructions from English to Chinese（17BYY065）national level;

2.A corpus-based contrastive study of generic constructions between English and Chinese（2016K017）provincial level;

3.A corpus-based contrastive study and translation of generic sentences between English and Chinese（2013030）provincial level;

4.A study of generic sentences in English and Chinese（Z111021001）university level;

5.A study of Polany’s tacit knowledge theory and translation studies（2011RWZX07）university level.

5. Books

1. An Interactive Study between Iconicity and Salience in Chinese and English Word Order, Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 2012.

2. How to pass CET-4, Beijing: China Radio & television publishing house, 2007.

6. Journal representative articles

1. How to translate generic sentences, zhilei ju or gaicheng ju? Journal of Xi’an International Studies University,2017(1):23-26+126;

2. The innovation and methodology of Researches on philosophy of language, Foreign language research, 2016(6):22-25;

3. Xu Guozhang’s philosophy of language, Foreign language teaching and research, 2016(4):547-556.

4. On presupposition of generic sentences, Foreign language education, 2016(4):30-33;

5. On subjectification of generic sentences, Foreign languages in China,2015(4):33-37+68;

6. On word order, Contemporary Linguistics, 2015(2):303-307;

7. On “Nida’s paradox” from tacit knowledge theory, Foreign studies,2015(1):94-98;

8. Polanyi’s tacit knowledge theory and translation studies, Language Education, 2014(3):56-60;

9. Generic sentence: language game and form of life, Journal of Xi’an International Studies University,2012(2):22-25;

10. Modern university education: comments on two readings, Journal of Changjiang Normal College, 2010(1):145-148;

11. On the reconstruction of meaning and form, Journal of Yunnan Normal University, 2009(6):74-77.

7. Awards

1. An Interactive Study between Iconicity and Salience in Chinese and English Word Order was awarded third provincial prize in 2017;

2. First prize in the teachers’ speech contest concerning teaching at Northwest A&F University in 2016;

3. A top teacher at Northwest A&F University in 2016;

4. A paper entitled “on the meaning and English version of generic sentence” was awarded first prize at Northwest A&F University in 2011.

8. Other

1. Key member of China Association for the Philosophy of Language;

2. Member of China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese.