Name: Donghong Liu
Gender: Female
Title：Professor
E-mail: liudonghong19@sina.com
Research Interests:
rhetoric and composition, rhetorical argumentation, comparative rhetoric, pragmatics
Education:
Ph.D., Fudan University, Shanghai, China (2004-2007)
M.A. Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China (1992-1996)
B.A. Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China (1985-1989)
Work Experience:
Southeast University (2022-)
Central China Normal University (1989-2021)
Scholar of American Studies, University of Utah, the USA (Aug.-Dec., 2022)
Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar, Purdue University, the USA (2016-2017)
Visiting scholar, Penn State University, the USA (2009-2010)
Major Publications:
Papers (recent 10 years)
1. Liu, D. and Wu, P. (2026). Can AI Argue More Sufficiently and Tactfully? SAGE OPEN, January: 1-14. (SSCI)
2. Tian, Y. and Liu, D. (2025). Relevance theory perspective of emojis used by Chinese younger and older adults in WeChat. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12:1068. (SSCI)
3. Tian, Y. and Liu, D. (2024). A bibliometric study of identity construction in English writing for academic purposes. Frontiers in Psychology, 15: 1499917. (SSCI)
4. Wei, Y. and Liu, D. (2024). Incorporating peer feedback in academic writing: a systematic review of benefits and challenges. Frontiers in Psychology, 15: 1-14. (SSCI)
5. Liu, D. and Xiong, M. (2024). Keeping balance between loyalty and modification: a Toulminian model as analytical framework. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11(639), May: 1-11. (SSCI)
6. Liu, D., Gan, Q. and Ma, H. (2024). Activating argumentation schema to write argumentatively and tactfully. Acta Psychologica, 246, June. (SSCI)
7. Liu, Donghong. (2023). Pragma-dialectical perspective to intercultural discussion as communicative activity. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10: 1-10. (SSCI)
8. Liu, D. and Mao, L. (2023). Illuminating Comparative Rhetoric: Motivations，Core Ideas and Research Methods. Contemporary Rhetoric, (6): 61-69（CSSCI）.
9. Chen, W., Liu, D. and Lin, C. (2023). Collaborative peer feedback in L2 writing: Affective, behavioral, cognitive, and social engagement. Frontiers in Psychology 14: 1-12. doi: (SSCI)
10. Liu, Donghong. (2022). New Modification to Toulmin Model as an Analytical Framework for Argumentative Essays. In: Chen, Y., Zhang, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Logic and Applications, AILA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1657. Springer, Singapore: 211-224.（EI）
11. Liu, Donghong. (2021). A Study on rhetorical and pragmatic properties of Pragma-dialectical Theory. Contemporary Rhetoric, (5): 79-86（CSSCI）
12. Liu, D. H., & Huang, J. (2021). Rhetoric construction of Chinese expository essays: Implications for EFL composition instruction. SAGE Open, 11(1), article first ublished online: January 20, 2021:1-10. (SSCI)
13. Liu, Donghong. (2021). Comparative rhetorical approach to Chinese expository paragraphs. Keith Lloyd (Ed.). Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics. Philadelphia: Routledge: 206-216. （book chapter）
14. Liu, Donghong. (2020). Alteration of Chinese EFL learners’ argumentation schemas—a longitudinal study based on Toulmin model. Modern Foreign Languages, (6): 793-805. （CSSCI）
15. Liu, Donghong. (2020). Toulmin warrant and modern Chinese argumentative discourse. Contemporary Rhetoric, (3): 86-95. （CSSCI）
16. Liu, D. and Tang, L. (2020). Rhetoricity in the discourse of English native speakers and English Learners. Foreign Language Teaching, (2): 71-75.（CSSCI）
17. Liu, D. and Wan, F. (2020). What Makes Proficient Writers’ Essays More Persuasive?—A Toulmin perspective. International Journal of TESOL Studies, (1): 1-13.
18. Liu, D. and Gan, Q. (2019). What Characterizes Chinese Students’ Exposition besides Deduction and Induction?—A Comparative Rhetoric Perspective. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics, 42(4): 449-467. （ESCI）
19. Liu, Donghong. (2019). Comparative Rhetoric and Emic Approaches to Chinese Persuasive Rhetorical Strategies. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 29 (2), 168-187. （ESCI）
20. Liu, Donghong. (2017). Study of persuasive rhetorical strategies driven by cultural values—Take hotel discourse as an example. Journal of Central China Normal University, 56(4): 104-109. （CSSCI）
21. Liu, Donghong. (2015). The Development of Composition-rhetoric as a Discipline. Foreign Language and Literature Research，5, 86-92.
22. Liu, D. and Chen, Y. (2015). Topic supporting and rhetorical relations in EFL learners’ paragraphs. Modern Foreign Languages, 38(4), 534-544. （CSSCI）
23. Liu, Donghong. (2015). Moves and wrap-up sentences in Chinese students’ essay conclusions. SAGE Open, 5(2), 1-9.
Books
1. Liu, Donghong. (2025). Studies of Toulmin Argmentation Theory from Cross-disciplinary Perspectives. Nanjing: Southeast University.
2. Liu, Donghong. (2023). Abstract Entity Anaphora in Argumentative Texts: Pragmatic features and referent interpretation. Springer Press.
3. Liu, Donghong. (2023). Rhetoricity in Chinese and English Argumentative Discourses. Beijing: Guangming Daily Press.
4. Liu, Donghong. (2015). Study on the Generalizing Ability of Chinese English Learners. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press.
5. Liu, D. & Lloyd, K. (Eds.). (2020). Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Wuhan: Central China Normal University Press.
Major Research Projects:
1. 2021 “Discoursal Strategies from Comparative Rhetoric Perspective” funded by National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science (National Social Science Fund)
2. 2016 “Discoursal Rhetoric in the English Learners’ Persuasive Writing” funded by Ministry of Education of China
3. 2013 “Abstract Entity Anaphora Study” funded by Hubei Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science
4. 2012 “Text Reference in Written Discourses” funded by Ministry of Education of China for returned visiting scholars
5. 2010 “Generalizing Ability of Chinese L2 Learners of English” funded by National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science (National Social Science Fund)
