Name：ZHANG Liping  

Gender：Female    

Title：Professor

Email：liping361@163.com;

Research areas：Language and the Law, Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Educational Background:

1995: BA Degree in English Language, Department of Foreign Languages, Shanxi Normal University, China

1998: MA Degree in English Linguistics, School of Foreign Languages, Soochow University, China

2006: Ph.D. Degree in Applied Linguistics, Research Base for Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics under the Ministry of Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

2009: Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK

2013: Short-term Visiting Scholar, University of New South Wales, Australia

2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, China

Work Experience and Part-time Roles in Academic Societies:

Work experience:

1998 – 2021: School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

2021 – Present: School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, China

Positions Held:

Serves as a member of the Legal Translation and Review Committee of the Legal Affairs Office of the National People's Congress, a council member of the Chinese Legal Linguistics Society, an executive council member of the Chinese Legal English Teaching and Testing Research Association, an expert committee member of the National Examination Guidance Committee for Legal English Certificates, an executive council member of the Jiangsu Law Society’s Comparative Law Research Association, and a part-time researcher at the Jiangsu Sports Intellectual Property Research Center, among others.

Research and Awards:

Has led or participated in nearly ten projects at or above the provincial or ministerial level; Has published numerous papers in prestigious domestic and international journals, such as TEXT and TALK, International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, Discourse and Communication, Foreign Language Teaching, and Journal of Applied Linguistics, and published four monographs with domestic and international publishers;

Guided several national undergraduate extracurricular research training projects; received titles such as "Advanced Individual in Scientific and Technological Work" from the university, won the school’s "Special Contribution Award", “Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award” and served as the leader of an Excellent Research Team; and participated in the third-tier talent training program of the Jiangsu Province 333 Project.