Name: YANG Chunhong

Title: Professor of English Language and Linguistics

Discipline: Pragmatics; Cross-cultural Communication

Education

1984   BA in English Language and Literature, Southwest Normal University, Chongqing, China

2001   MA in English Language and Literature, Southwest Normal University, Chongqing, China

2007    Visiting scholar at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK．

Research Interests: Pragmatics; Inter-language pragmatics; Pragmatics-related Disciplines

Selected Publications

 Yang, Chunhong & Mei, Meilian. 2010. “Empirical study of English majors’ pragmatic competence in Chinese classroom teaching”, The Science Education Article Collects. (12).

 Yang, Chunhong. 2008. “Appropriate requests: conventionally indirect request realization repertoire of Chinese ESL postgraduates”, Modern Literature. (8).

 Yang, Chunhong. 2005. “Politeness in subjunctive mood from the pragmatically indexical perspective”, Guangxi Social Sciences.(5).

Awards

Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Theories and Application to English Teaching (Funded by Department of Education of Sichuan Province)

English Audio-Video-Oral Practice and the Development of Students’ Pragmatic Competence (Funded by the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province)

Contacts

E-mail: graceych@126.com

Address: School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xihua University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 610039, P. R. China