ZHAO Wenchao
PhD in Linguistics
Associate professor
Email：w_yxyseu@seu.edu.cn
Research interests (SFL-informed/inspired)
academic discourse
language teaching
academic translation
social interaction
language typology
cross-linguistic variation
English and Chinese lexicogrammar
Educational background：
2015-2017: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Postdoc
2016-2017: Sydney University, Visiting Scholar
2010-2014: Xiamen University, Ph.D.
2003-2006: Dalian University of Foreign Languages, MA
1997-2000: Zhengzhou University, BA
Work experience：
2022.03-the present: Southeast University
2006.07-2022.01: Henan University of Science and Technology
Recent Publications:
[1] Zhao, Wenchao. 2025. The representation of attitudinal evaluation in academic translations:From the perspective of cross-linguistic grammatical metaphor. Foreign Language and Literature Studies (5).
[2] Zhao, Wenchao. 2024. Attitudinal evaluations in two versions of research articles: A cross-linguistic exploration of their pattern shifts. Ibérica (2). [AHCI & SSCI]
[3] Zhao, Wenchao. 2023. Exploring college English teaching of rhetorical knowledge: A Legitimation Code Theory analysis. Language Teaching Research (2). [SSCI]
[4] Li Cuiying, Zhang Dongbing, Zhao Wenchao*, Mouxuqin & Zuo Hongshan. (Translation). Learning to Write, Reading to Learn: Genre, Knowledge and Pedagogy in Sydney School. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2022.
[5] Zhao, Wenchao. 2020. Building axiological affiliation in televised Chinese job interviews: Attitudinal evaluations and their communication. Text & Talk (2). [AHCI & SSCI]
[6] Maton, Karl, Li Cuiying, Zhao, Wenchao* & Zhang, Dongbing. 2020. Seeing the world differently. Educational Linguistics Studies (2).
[7] Zhao, Wenchao. 2017. Review: Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Grammar, Text and Discursive Context. Discourse Studies (5). [SSCI]
[8] Zhao, Wenchao. 2017. Review: Language and Law. Australian Journal of Linguistics (1). [SSCI]
[9] Zhao, Wenchao. 2016. On the ideational fractal thinking in Systemic Functional Linguistics.Modern Foreign Languages (5). [CSSCI]
[10] Zhao, Wenchao. 2016. Knowledge Representation in Middle School Science Textbooks: From the Perspective of Ideational Fractals. Science Press.
[11] Zhao, Wenchao. 2016. Review: Discourse and Knowledge: A Socio-cognitive Approach. Discourse Studies (6). [SSCI]
[12] Zhao, Wenchao. 2016. Review: The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday. Journal of Linguistics (2). [SSCI]
[13] Zhao, Wenchao. 2015. A Discussion of the Relationship between Metadiscourse and Intersubjectivity. Journal of Ningbo University (1).
[14] Zhao, Wenchao. 2015. Review: Interviews with M. A. K. Halliday: Language Turned Back on Himself. English for Specific Purposes(39). [SSCI]
[15] Zhao, Wenchao. 2014. Review: Multimodal Studies: Exploring Issues and Domains. Visual Communication (1). [SSCI]
[16] Zhao, Wenchao. 2014. Engaging projection and the construction of dialogic Space: A comparative study based on the corpus of two types of academic book reviews. Journal of Xihua University (6).
[17] Zhao, Wenchao. 2013. Review: Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition. Discourse & Society (1). [SSCI]
[18] Zhao, Wenchao. 2013. Review: Pragmatics for Language Educators: A Sociolinguistic Perspective. Modern Foreign Languages (2). [CSSCI]
[19] Zhao, Wenchao. 2010. An explanation of the divergence of comprehension from intention. Journal of Henan University of Scienc and Technology (2).
[20] Zhao, Wenchao. 2008. A new approach to the derivation of Bei-structure within the framework of derivation by phase. Journal of Guangzhou University (7).
Recent research projects
1. The meaning behavior of quality groups in English and Chinese academic discourse. 2020. (Supported by The National Social Science Foundation of China)
2. A cross-linguistic study of the coupling patterns of attitudinal evaluations in English and Chinese academic discourse. 2019. (Supported by The Humanities and Social Science Foundation of China's Ministry of Education)
