ZHAO Wenchao
PhD in Linguistics
Associated 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. 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.
2. Zhao, Wenchao. 2020. Exploring college English teaching of rhetorical knowledge: A Legitimation Code Theory analysis. Language Teaching Research. [SSCI]
3. Zhao, Wenchao. 2020. Building axiological affiliation in televised Chinese job interviews: Attitudinal evaluations and their communication. Text & Talk. [AHCI & SSCI]
4. Maton, Karl, Li Cuiying, Zhao, Wenchao* & Zhang, Dongbing. 2020. Seeing the world differently. Educational Linguistics Studies (2).
5. Zhao, Wenchao. 2017. Review: Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Grammar, Text and Discursive Context. Discourse Studies. [SSCI]
6. Zhao, Wenchao. 2017. Review: Language and Law. Australian Journal of Linguistics. [SSCI]
7. Zhao, Wenchao. 2016. On the ideational fractal thinking in Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Modern Foreign Languages. (5). [CSSCI]
8. Knowledge representation in middle school science textbooks: From the perspective of ideational fractals. Science Press. 2016.
9. Zhao, Wenchao. 2016. Review: Discourse and knowledge: A Socio-cognitive Approach. Discourse Studies. [SSCI]
10. Zhao, Wenchao. 2016. Review: The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday. Journal of Linguistics. [SSCI]
11. Zhao, Wenchao. 2015. A Discussion of the Relationship between Metadiscourse and Intersubjectivity. Journal of Ningbo University (liberal arts edition) (1).
12. Zhao, Wenchao. 2015. Review: Interviews with M. A. K. Halliday: Language Turned Back on Himself. English for Specific Purposes. [SSCI]
13. Zhao, Wenchao. 2014. Review: Multimodal Studies: Exploring Issues and Domains. Visual Communication. [SSCI]
14. Zhao, Wenchao. 2013. Review: Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition. Discourse & Society. [SSCI]
15. Zhao, Wenchao. 2013. Review: Pragmatics for Language Educators: A Sociolinguistic Perspective Modern Foreign Languages (2). [CSSCI]
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)
