Gu Yueguo

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Research Professor of Linguistics in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Executive Dean of the Institute of BeiWai Online Education

Head of Contemporary Linguistics Department, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Special Professor of the University of Nottingham (2004-2007)

Present Academic Posts

Co-chief editor of Contemporary Linguistics (national)

Advisory Editor of Journal of Pragmatics (international journal)

Advisory Editor of Text (international journal)

Advisory Editor of Pragmatics (International Pragmatics Association Journal)

Special Issue Editor of Journal of Pragmatics

Special Issue Editor of Text

Advisory Editor of a monologue series of the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, with Elsevier Science Publisher, Holland

Chief editor of a monologue series Contemporary Linguistics and ELT in China, with Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

Advisory Editor of Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research (national)

Standing member of the Executive Board of the International Pragmatics Association

Standing member of the Consultation Board of the Chinese Linguistics Association

Education

M.A. with Distinction in Language Studies Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language Lancaster University, UK

Ph.D. in Pragmatics and Rhetoric Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language Lancaster University, UK

Certificate with a Mark of Distinction Sino-British Summer School of Philosophy The British Academy and The Chinese Academy

Research Prizes and Honours

National Top Prize for linguistic research 1993 by Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation

Beijing Municipal Top Prize for linguistic research 1994

National Top Ten Post-doctorate Researcher Prize 1995 by Guo Shi Post-doctorate Award Foundation

A K. C. Wong Fellow of the British Academy

A guest professor of Capital Normal University

An honorary chair professor of linguistics of Shanxi University

An honorary dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics

Research Grants Awarded

Post-doctoral Research grant 1988-90 from the State Post-doctorate Research Foundation

Project Funding 1993-94 from Humanities and Social Science Research Foundation of the State Education Commission

British Council Research Fund 1992-93 • Hong Kong University Vice-Chancellor Fund 1996

Online Education Research from the Ministry of Education 2001

ICT and ELT in Chinese context --- 21st century key project funded by the Ministry of Education 2003

Publications and Conference Papers

Publications in English (Research papers and textbooks)

1988 In search of a safe ground. In Littlejohn, ed. Processes and Methods. pp6-17

1990 Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics, No. 3, pp.237-257

1993 The impasse of perlocution. Journal of Pragmatics No. 20, pp. 405-432 1993 Pragmatics and rhetoric: a collaborative approach to conversation. Pretending to Communicate, ed. by Herman Parrate, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp.173-195

1996 Doctor-patient interaction as goal-directed discourse. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, Vol. 7, Nos 3 & 4, pp.156-176

1996 A Guide to Success: Orientation

          English in Daily Life

          English at Leisure

          English at Work

          English in Current Affairs

Chief editor, author and co-author, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press

1996 Steering a middle course. In Collection of Papers at the 5th International Language Education Conference.

1997 Five ways of handling a bedpan, Text, 17(4) 1997, pp.457-475

1997 A Guide to Success 2: Learning Strategies

          English for Studying

         Cross-cultural Communication

         English in a Changing World

         English through Literature

Chief editor, author and co-author, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press

1997 Conversation and Sentencehood. In Text 17(4), pp. co-authored with Shen Jiaxuan

1997 Undo Doing Pragmatics -- A book review, Journal of Pragmatics

1997 Discourse Analysis in China, co-editor of a special issue of Text

1998 A Guide to Success 3: Professionalism

          Language and Linguistics: A Workbook

          English Language Teaching Methodology (Book 1)

          English Language Teaching Methodology (Book 2)

          Practical Project Design

Chief editor, author and co-author, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press

1999 Towards a model of situated discourse. In Ken Turner, ed. The Semantics and Pragmatics Interface. Elsevier Science Publisher

1999 Chinese healthcare system: an introduction. In David Smith, ed. Special issue of Health Communication, pp.203-208

1999 Medical decision making and self construal in Hong Kong and Beijing. Co-authored with Min Sun Kim, and David Smith. In David Smith, ed. Special issue of Health Communication, pp. 249-260

1999 Reconstructing humanistic and stylistic traditions in Chinese rhetoric. Keynote speech at the 3rd International Conference of East and West Communication: Challenges for the New Century, HK 1997. Published in Hu Wenzhong, ed. Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

2000 co-chief editor of Active English series (4 Bands, 12 volumes). Published jointly by Longman and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

2001 The changing orders of discourse in a changing China. In Pan, H. ed. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, Volume 2, pp. 31-58 Linguistics Society of Hong Kong

2001 Chinese officialdom at work in discourse. In Barron, Bruce and Nunan, eds. Knowledge and Discourse in the Asian Pacific. Longman

2002 Towards an understanding of workplace discourse. In C. Candlin, ed. Professional Discourse: Theory and Practice. The City University of Hong Kong Press

2001 co-chief-editor of Read into Human Civilization and Culture. (Book 1, 2 volumes) Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

2002 Sampling a Chinese spoken corpus of situated discourse. Paris University Press

2002 From classroom to distance to internet. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

2003 Towards a multiple-goal neo-Grice. In the International Journal of Pragmatics,

2003 (Vol.14) Forthcoming A multimodal text analysis of an anniversary ceremony in China – A corpus linguistic approach. Submitted as a contribution to a special issue of Text. 2005

Publications in Chinese

1982 Notes on rhetoric in the 18th and 19th century England. Journal of Rhetorical Studies, No. 2, pp. 18-20

1983 Reflections on modern British and American rhetoric. Journal of Rhetorical Studies, No. 4, pp. 23-25

1987 A Survey of Contemporary Western Rhetoric. In collaboration with Dechun Wang and others (personal contribution: 2/5 of the total volume). Published by Fujian People's Press 1989 Austin's speech act theory: its elucidation and criticism. Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No. 1, pp. 30- 39

1989 An outline of conversational rhetoric. Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research No. 3, pp. 8-15. Reprinted in Rhetorical Studies, vol. 5, 1991

1989 Burke's theory of identification: a comparative study of Chinese and Western rhetorical thoughts. Journal of Rhetoric Studies, No. 5, pp.24-27

1990 Contemporary western rhetoric in historical perspective. Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No. 2, pp. 10-25

1990 A review of The Logic of Natural Language. Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No. 3, pp.33-4

1992 Leech's theory of rhetoric. In Journal of Foreign Language Research, No. 4, pp.

1992 Politeness, pragmatics and culture. Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No. 4, pp. 10-17. Reprinted in Language and Culture ed. by Hu Wenzhong 1993

1994 John Searle: from speech act theory to the philosophy of mind. Linguistics Abroad, No. 2, pp.1-8

1994 John Searle's speech act theory: application and criticism. Linguistics Abroad, No. 3, pp. 10-16

1996 Self-access learning: a research report (co-authored with Yueyuan Huang) Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No. 2, pp. 9-13

1998 Corpus and linguistics research. Contemporary Linguistics, No. 1, pp.1-4

1999 Linguistic "facts" and paradigms. Contemporary Linguistics, No. 3, pp.3-14

2002 Compiling Chinese spoken corpus: some theoretical issues. In Globalization and the 21st Century, Beijing: the Social Sciences Publisher, pp. 484-500

2003 Reading Grice. In Studies in the Ways of Words by Grice. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

2003 Reading Austin. In How to Do Things with Words. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

2003 Online Education: Nature and Status in China. In《中国远程教育》No 4.

2004 Online Education: Philosophy, Design and Solution. In Applied Linguistics, No. 1

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