Ningyang Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3812415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ningyang Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ningyang |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Soochow University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3335-2999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reappraising blankness
To English readers, Chinese academic prose can appear insubstantial, a perception that scholarly discussion has often reduced to impressionistic views of interlingual difference. This perception fuels a “deficit” view prevalent in language pedagogy, which persistently characterizes Chinese academic authors without identifying a root cause beyond intercultural rhetorical patterns. This article argues that this “deficit” view rests on biased episte…
Teacher discourse from the perspective of rapport-management theory
While the instructional significance of teacher discourse is widely recognized, its interpersonal functions remain underexplored. This study employs Rapport-Management Theory (RMT) to analyze how a Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher, characterized by an authoritative teaching style, strategically utilized discourse strategies across illocutionary, discourse, participation, stylistic, and nonverbal domains to cultivate and sustain…
Making sense of a new language
The concept of authenticity has received much discussion in applied linguistics and educational studies. Valuable insights have been gained into how authenticity is problematised in language teaching and how to improve the situation by engaging learners with better-designed materials and activities. These achievements notwithstanding, empirical evidence remains insufficient to understand learners’ meaning-making endeavours in real-life learning s…
From ‘Main Course’ to ‘Side Dish?’ Debates about Removing English as a Core Subject for Chinese Students Receiving Compulsory Education
China’s impressive growth over the last three decades warrants the need to re-evaluate the position and positioning of English in the country’s educational system. For long, English has been taught and learned compulsorily alongside Chinese and maths in primary and secondary schools in the mainland of China. It was not until recent years that the legitimacy of English as a core subject started to be questioned, and calls for alternative solutions…
Filling in the blank
Poetry is often seen as the ultimate challenge for a literary translator. Why it is so and how in reality translators manage to accomplish this feat remain to be explored. This article contributes a new way of understanding poetry translation by re-theorizing the practice with reference to the concept of blank-sign. In the light of the blank-sign, we see poetry as a genre rich with meaning-charged blank-signs and poetry translation as a “blank-fi…
The story of a loner learner
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Discursive construction in multilingual crisis risk communication
This article examines the discursive construction of a specific letter-style multilingual crisis message released by local governmental institutions during China’s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a sociocognitive analysis of a collection of 33 English-language messages, the analysis revealed the structural features of the message and the discursive strategies in constructing and negotiating the identities of the message’s addresser…
Translation as subversion and subjugation
The English major crisis in China
Any news on English education in China today is now no news, but this most recent one may offer us some fresh food for thought
Where are we going and where have we been
In their article, ‘Back to basics’, Zhou and Zha critique a ‘disheartening picture’ they found in my paper ‘The English major crisis in China’ (2019) and proposes an alternative view based on a model reform project. I will take the opportunity of this invitation to respond to reflect further on my study and the issue under debate
Semiotic Resourcefulness in Crisis Risk Communication
The unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 presents a public health crisis on a global scale
More than a Splendid Blend of Cultures
Creative alternative scripts in such typical forms as faux style fonts transcend writing systems. In addition to their artistic value in creating an illusion suggestive of cultural blends, they also provide an interesting case for semiotic analysis. By examining the features of graphemic representations in English scripts rendered using faux-Chinese fonts, this article makes an attempt to explore the depth of semiotic encoding in topographical in…
Filling in the blank
Poetry is often seen as the ultimate challenge for a literary translator. Why it is so and how in reality translators manage to accomplish this feat remain to be explored. This article contributes a new way of understanding poetry translation by re-theorizing the practice with reference to the concept of blank-sign. In the light of the blank-sign, we see poetry as a genre rich with meaning-charged blank-signs and poetry translation as a “blank-fi…
Semiotic Resourcefulness in Crisis Risk Communication
The unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 presents a public health crisis on a global scale
More than a Splendid Blend of Cultures
Creative alternative scripts in such typical forms as faux style fonts transcend writing systems. In addition to their artistic value in creating an illusion suggestive of cultural blends, they also provide an interesting case for semiotic analysis. By examining the features of graphemic representations in English scripts rendered using faux-Chinese fonts, this article makes an attempt to explore the depth of semiotic encoding in topographical in…
The English major crisis in China
Any news on English education in China today is now no news, but this most recent one may offer us some fresh food for thought
Where are we going and where have we been
In their article, ‘Back to basics’, Zhou and Zha critique a ‘disheartening picture’ they found in my paper ‘The English major crisis in China’ (2019) and proposes an alternative view based on a model reform project. I will take the opportunity of this invitation to respond to reflect further on my study and the issue under debate
Semiotic Resourcefulness in Crisis Risk Communication
The unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 presents a public health crisis on a global scale
Translation as subversion and subjugation
Discursive construction in multilingual crisis risk communication
This article examines the discursive construction of a specific letter-style multilingual crisis message released by local governmental institutions during China’s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a sociocognitive analysis of a collection of 33 English-language messages, the analysis revealed the structural features of the message and the discursive strategies in constructing and negotiating the identities of the message’s addresser…
From ‘Main Course’ to ‘Side Dish?’ Debates about Removing English as a Core Subject for Chinese Students Receiving Compulsory Education
China’s impressive growth over the last three decades warrants the need to re-evaluate the position and positioning of English in the country’s educational system. For long, English has been taught and learned compulsorily alongside Chinese and maths in primary and secondary schools in the mainland of China. It was not until recent years that the legitimacy of English as a core subject started to be questioned, and calls for alternative solutions…
Filling in the blank
Poetry is often seen as the ultimate challenge for a literary translator. Why it is so and how in reality translators manage to accomplish this feat remain to be explored. This article contributes a new way of understanding poetry translation by re-theorizing the practice with reference to the concept of blank-sign. In the light of the blank-sign, we see poetry as a genre rich with meaning-charged blank-signs and poetry translation as a “blank-fi…
The story of a loner learner
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Making sense of a new language
The concept of authenticity has received much discussion in applied linguistics and educational studies. Valuable insights have been gained into how authenticity is problematised in language teaching and how to improve the situation by engaging learners with better-designed materials and activities. These achievements notwithstanding, empirical evidence remains insufficient to understand learners’ meaning-making endeavours in real-life learning s…
Teacher discourse from the perspective of rapport-management theory
While the instructional significance of teacher discourse is widely recognized, its interpersonal functions remain underexplored. This study employs Rapport-Management Theory (RMT) to analyze how a Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher, characterized by an authoritative teaching style, strategically utilized discourse strategies across illocutionary, discourse, participation, stylistic, and nonverbal domains to cultivate and sustain…
Reappraising blankness
To English readers, Chinese academic prose can appear insubstantial, a perception that scholarly discussion has often reduced to impressionistic views of interlingual difference. This perception fuels a “deficit” view prevalent in language pedagogy, which persistently characterizes Chinese academic authors without identifying a root cause beyond intercultural rhetorical patterns. This article argues that this “deficit” view rests on biased episte…
Linguistics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Semiotics (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works)