Zhou-Min Yuan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1134792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhou-Min Yuan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhou-Min |
| FAMILY NAME | Yuan |
| SIGNATURE | YUAN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0274-7135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Review of Lei (2025)
Journal of multicultural discourses at twenty
Apology strategies and ritual frame indicating expressions (RFIEs) in advanced Korean learners’ Chinese
Identity in guanxi space
This article argues that identity among the Chinese is operated and must be interpreted in guanxi space, which is the essence of identity in Chinese culture. This can be further summarized as identity in guanxi space, i.e., identity is regulated and operated in the sphere of the four-dimensional quadrants of vertical and horizontal axes. This article thus claims the following about the model of identity in the guanxi space: it embodies the interp…
Istvan Kecskes
The art of positive reporting in media discourse
Linguistic positivity bias is widely examined in spoken communication and written academic communication. Existing research proposes that this trend of favoring positive language use is common and universal in human communication. However, to date, no existing study has confirmed this tendency to use more positive words than negative ones in media discourse. By examining a list of positive and negative words and how they are distributed in the Ti…
Chinese university faculty supervisors’ academic identity construction in online profiles
Faculty supervisor profiles on the graduate school webpages of universities offer an explicit assertion of self-representation regarding the author’s academic identity, from which potential graduates can gain official information about their future faculty supervisors. Though scholars’ identity construction on blogs or homepages has drawn sufficient attention, supervisors’ identity construction on graduate school webpages across authors’ status, …
Investigating English-medium instruction for international students in China
Few studies have investigated current English-medium Instruction (EMI) programmes for international students studying in universities in China’s mainland. The present study applies Spolsky’s language policy framework to analyze Chinese EMI programmes in terms of language ideology, language management, and language practices on the national level, the university level and the individual level. Data are collected from policy statements, interviews,…
Where there is panic, the media are close by
The widespread panic associated with media exposure is a serious challenge to worldwide governments in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, alleviating negative social emotions, particularly panic, is an urgent issue for the state media. By using the comments of a Weibo post from The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Youth League, drawing on the notion of extrinsic emotion regulation , this paper conducts a det…
Is academic writing becoming more positive? A large-scale diachronic case study of Science research articles across 25 years
Understanding National Identity Construction in China-Asean Business Discourse
Few studies have investigated national identity construction in a diachronic and holistic manner. To address this gap, in applying constructivist views of international relations and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this paper analyzes business news titles of Chinese and ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) country mainstream media to reveal identities that both parties construct of one another and relationships between discourse and…
Radio program hosts’ self-identity mobilization in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultations
While previous studies highlight the dynamic nature of identity co-construction, how and especially why speakers construct and shift their own multiple identities still remains understudied. The present study argues that identity is part of speaker communicative resources as evidenced by radio program hosts’ strategic employment and shift among their different identities to facilitate their interactional purposes. Based on data drawn from radio m…
Identity rhetoric in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultation
While previous studies highlight the dynamic feature of identity construction, little attention has been paid to the identity work within the overall structure of a conversation and to the interrelations between different aspects of identity constructed. Drawing on a sizable recording of radio-mediated medical consultations (RMMC), this study aims to explore the various aspects of medical consultants’ identities and the dynamic shift among the di…
Examining the Effects of Explicit Pronunciation Instruction on the Development of L2 Pronunciation
The current study compares the effects of two types of pronunciation instruction (segmental- and suprasegmental-based) on the development of second-year Chinese undergraduate students’ English pronunciation as against a group with no specific pronunciation (NSP) instruction. The participants were 90 university-level students in the Chinese mainland, from three intact classes. One class was taught with a segmental focus ( N = 30) and the second wi…
Investigating longitudinal pragmatic development of complaints made by Chinese EFL learners
Few studies have investigated the development of L2 complaints. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of L2 complaints produced by Chinese university English learners based on their performance of a discourse completion task consisting of 18 complaint scenarios in terms of power (+P, =P, −P) and social distance (−D, =D, +D), supplemented by a delayed retrospective verbal report. Data were collected twice, over two academic years. The results…
Exploring Chinese college students’ construction of online identity on the Sina Microblog
It Was Because I Could Speak English That I Got the Job”
The issue of neoliberalism has aroused sustained interest among English language teaching (ELT) and applied linguistic researchers who are politically minded. Neoliberalism is a dominant rationality with immense economic, political and ideological consequences in all aspects of social and institutional life in globalization, including foreign language education. This article presents a critical analysis of the neoliberal discourse on English lang…
Chinese Discourse Studies
Bhatia, Aditi. 2015. Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse-Theory and Practice
The Great American Scaffold
The Great American Scaffold: Intertextuality and Identity in American Presidential Discourse." Australian Journal of Linguistics, 36(2), pp. 290–291
Understanding identity discourse
Analyzing identities in discourse, edited by Rosana Dolon and Julia Todoli, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008, Xi+205 pp., $158 (hardback), ISBN 9789027227195 $158
It Was Because I Could Speak English That I Got the Job”
The issue of neoliberalism has aroused sustained interest among English language teaching (ELT) and applied linguistic researchers who are politically minded. Neoliberalism is a dominant rationality with immense economic, political and ideological consequences in all aspects of social and institutional life in globalization, including foreign language education. This article presents a critical analysis of the neoliberal discourse on English lang…
Investigating English-medium instruction for international students in China
Few studies have investigated current English-medium Instruction (EMI) programmes for international students studying in universities in China’s mainland. The present study applies Spolsky’s language policy framework to analyze Chinese EMI programmes in terms of language ideology, language management, and language practices on the national level, the university level and the individual level. Data are collected from policy statements, interviews,…
Understanding identity discourse
Analyzing identities in discourse, edited by Rosana Dolon and Julia Todoli, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008, Xi+205 pp., $158 (hardback), ISBN 9789027227195 $158
Exploring Chinese college students’ construction of online identity on the Sina Microblog
Understanding identity discourse
Analyzing identities in discourse, edited by Rosana Dolon and Julia Todoli, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008, Xi+205 pp., $158 (hardback), ISBN 9789027227195 $158
The Great American Scaffold
The Great American Scaffold: Intertextuality and Identity in American Presidential Discourse." Australian Journal of Linguistics, 36(2), pp. 290–291
Bhatia, Aditi. 2015. Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse-Theory and Practice
Chinese Discourse Studies
Investigating longitudinal pragmatic development of complaints made by Chinese EFL learners
Few studies have investigated the development of L2 complaints. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of L2 complaints produced by Chinese university English learners based on their performance of a discourse completion task consisting of 18 complaint scenarios in terms of power (+P, =P, −P) and social distance (−D, =D, +D), supplemented by a delayed retrospective verbal report. Data were collected twice, over two academic years. The results…
Exploring Chinese college students’ construction of online identity on the Sina Microblog
It Was Because I Could Speak English That I Got the Job”
The issue of neoliberalism has aroused sustained interest among English language teaching (ELT) and applied linguistic researchers who are politically minded. Neoliberalism is a dominant rationality with immense economic, political and ideological consequences in all aspects of social and institutional life in globalization, including foreign language education. This article presents a critical analysis of the neoliberal discourse on English lang…
Identity rhetoric in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultation
While previous studies highlight the dynamic feature of identity construction, little attention has been paid to the identity work within the overall structure of a conversation and to the interrelations between different aspects of identity constructed. Drawing on a sizable recording of radio-mediated medical consultations (RMMC), this study aims to explore the various aspects of medical consultants’ identities and the dynamic shift among the di…
Examining the Effects of Explicit Pronunciation Instruction on the Development of L2 Pronunciation
The current study compares the effects of two types of pronunciation instruction (segmental- and suprasegmental-based) on the development of second-year Chinese undergraduate students’ English pronunciation as against a group with no specific pronunciation (NSP) instruction. The participants were 90 university-level students in the Chinese mainland, from three intact classes. One class was taught with a segmental focus ( N = 30) and the second wi…
Radio program hosts’ self-identity mobilization in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultations
While previous studies highlight the dynamic nature of identity co-construction, how and especially why speakers construct and shift their own multiple identities still remains understudied. The present study argues that identity is part of speaker communicative resources as evidenced by radio program hosts’ strategic employment and shift among their different identities to facilitate their interactional purposes. Based on data drawn from radio m…
Is academic writing becoming more positive? A large-scale diachronic case study of Science research articles across 25 years
Understanding National Identity Construction in China-Asean Business Discourse
Few studies have investigated national identity construction in a diachronic and holistic manner. To address this gap, in applying constructivist views of international relations and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this paper analyzes business news titles of Chinese and ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) country mainstream media to reveal identities that both parties construct of one another and relationships between discourse and…
Where there is panic, the media are close by
The widespread panic associated with media exposure is a serious challenge to worldwide governments in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, alleviating negative social emotions, particularly panic, is an urgent issue for the state media. By using the comments of a Weibo post from The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Youth League, drawing on the notion of extrinsic emotion regulation , this paper conducts a det…
Chinese university faculty supervisors’ academic identity construction in online profiles
Faculty supervisor profiles on the graduate school webpages of universities offer an explicit assertion of self-representation regarding the author’s academic identity, from which potential graduates can gain official information about their future faculty supervisors. Though scholars’ identity construction on blogs or homepages has drawn sufficient attention, supervisors’ identity construction on graduate school webpages across authors’ status, …
Investigating English-medium instruction for international students in China
Few studies have investigated current English-medium Instruction (EMI) programmes for international students studying in universities in China’s mainland. The present study applies Spolsky’s language policy framework to analyze Chinese EMI programmes in terms of language ideology, language management, and language practices on the national level, the university level and the individual level. Data are collected from policy statements, interviews,…
Identity in guanxi space
This article argues that identity among the Chinese is operated and must be interpreted in guanxi space, which is the essence of identity in Chinese culture. This can be further summarized as identity in guanxi space, i.e., identity is regulated and operated in the sphere of the four-dimensional quadrants of vertical and horizontal axes. This article thus claims the following about the model of identity in the guanxi space: it embodies the interp…
Istvan Kecskes
The art of positive reporting in media discourse
Linguistic positivity bias is widely examined in spoken communication and written academic communication. Existing research proposes that this trend of favoring positive language use is common and universal in human communication. However, to date, no existing study has confirmed this tendency to use more positive words than negative ones in media discourse. By examining a list of positive and negative words and how they are distributed in the Ti…
Review of Lei (2025)
Journal of multicultural discourses at twenty
Apology strategies and ritual frame indicating expressions (RFIEs) in advanced Korean learners’ Chinese
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)