Donghong Liu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3915564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donghong Liu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donghong |
| FAMILY NAME | Liu |
| SIGNATURE | LIU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southeast University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0028-232X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can AI Argue More Sufficiently and Tactfully
Although AI-generated texts are increasingly attractive to the EFL/ESL researchers and teachers, few studies have examined those texts from logical and rhetorical perspectives. This study explored whether AI model can argue more sufficiently and tactfully than human writers. The data source consisted of 60 argumentative essays from EFL learners’ written corpus and a parallel ChatGPT-written corpus. Content analysis and quantitative analysis were …
Relevance theory perspective of emojis used by Chinese younger and older adults in WeChat
Computer-mediated communication is so popular in social interaction that Cyberpragmatics has been formulated to study emojis from the perspective of Relevance Theory. According to Relevance Theory, individuals tend to select information that provides the most significant cognitive benefits while requiring the least processing effort during comprehension. Emojis, as concise and efficient communication stimuli, can demonstrate how interlocutors of …
Keeping balance between loyalty and modification
Toulmin model has been widely applied to composition-rhetoric and several modified models have been advanced. However, those modified versions diverge widely from Toulmin model. To Keep loyalty to Toulmin’s argumentation and infuse van Eemeren et al.’s pragma-dialectic view, we propose a new modified model as an analytical framework for argumentative essays, with the assumption that a writer is in fact arguing with a potential reader who holds a …
Activating argumentation schema to write argumentatively and tactfully
To argue tactfully is a goal in argumentative writing, which entails balanced argumentation schema. Although computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has been widely acknowledged as language learning mediation, especially in writing, few studies investigate its effectiveness in activating the balanced argumentation schema. This study explores the effectiveness of QQ group discussion, a kind of CSCL mediation most popular in China, in argu…
Pragma-dialectical perspective to intercultural discussion as communicative activity
The core idea of Pragma-dialectical Theory is critical discussion which means resolving disagreement via argumentative dialogues. The Pragmatic-dialectic Model describing critical discussion has not only reasonableness and validness in logic, but also rhetorical effectiveness and pragmatic properties in intra-cultural context. However, the model cannot appropriately describe intercultural discussion since the discussants try to negotiate both in …
Rhetoric Construction of Chinese Expository Essays
Recent scholarship on Chinese students' English expository essays tends to blur or mitigate the differences between English and Chinese writings. This alleged convergence of English and Chinese rhetorical norms gives rise to a view that rhetorical aspects in second language writing instruction and research in China should be de-emphasized. Drawing on data from full-score Chinese compositions of College Entrance Examination, this study examines ho…
Cultural Values Are Communicated
This study looks into the question of how to theorize the role of cultural values in communication through persuasion. A multi-method approach is used to encode 60 English hotel introductions and 60 Chinese ones for data analyses. The relation between cultural values and persuasive strategies is explored in the context of communication. It is argued that hotel discourse not only reflects cultural values; more importantly, it creates empirical evi…
Chinese Dates
Chinese Dates
Moves and Wrap-Up Sentences in Chinese Students’ Essay Conclusions
Whether L1 (first language) rhetorical transfer affects L2 (second language) writing remains a controversial issue. Based on Hyland’s move theory, this article focuses on the moves and the quality of wrap-up sentences in essay conclusions, exploring the impact of L1 rhetorical transfer. One hundred eighty-four expository essays written by Chinese college students were analyzed, as well as 20 English and 20 Chinese model essays. Besides, sentence-…
Rhetoric Construction of Chinese Expository Essays
Recent scholarship on Chinese students' English expository essays tends to blur or mitigate the differences between English and Chinese writings. This alleged convergence of English and Chinese rhetorical norms gives rise to a view that rhetorical aspects in second language writing instruction and research in China should be de-emphasized. Drawing on data from full-score Chinese compositions of College Entrance Examination, this study examines ho…
Moves and Wrap-Up Sentences in Chinese Students’ Essay Conclusions
Whether L1 (first language) rhetorical transfer affects L2 (second language) writing remains a controversial issue. Based on Hyland’s move theory, this article focuses on the moves and the quality of wrap-up sentences in essay conclusions, exploring the impact of L1 rhetorical transfer. One hundred eighty-four expository essays written by Chinese college students were analyzed, as well as 20 English and 20 Chinese model essays. Besides, sentence-…
Chinese Dates
Chinese Dates
Cultural Values Are Communicated
This study looks into the question of how to theorize the role of cultural values in communication through persuasion. A multi-method approach is used to encode 60 English hotel introductions and 60 Chinese ones for data analyses. The relation between cultural values and persuasive strategies is explored in the context of communication. It is argued that hotel discourse not only reflects cultural values; more importantly, it creates empirical evi…
Rhetoric Construction of Chinese Expository Essays
Recent scholarship on Chinese students' English expository essays tends to blur or mitigate the differences between English and Chinese writings. This alleged convergence of English and Chinese rhetorical norms gives rise to a view that rhetorical aspects in second language writing instruction and research in China should be de-emphasized. Drawing on data from full-score Chinese compositions of College Entrance Examination, this study examines ho…
Pragma-dialectical perspective to intercultural discussion as communicative activity
The core idea of Pragma-dialectical Theory is critical discussion which means resolving disagreement via argumentative dialogues. The Pragmatic-dialectic Model describing critical discussion has not only reasonableness and validness in logic, but also rhetorical effectiveness and pragmatic properties in intra-cultural context. However, the model cannot appropriately describe intercultural discussion since the discussants try to negotiate both in …
Keeping balance between loyalty and modification
Toulmin model has been widely applied to composition-rhetoric and several modified models have been advanced. However, those modified versions diverge widely from Toulmin model. To Keep loyalty to Toulmin’s argumentation and infuse van Eemeren et al.’s pragma-dialectic view, we propose a new modified model as an analytical framework for argumentative essays, with the assumption that a writer is in fact arguing with a potential reader who holds a …
Activating argumentation schema to write argumentatively and tactfully
To argue tactfully is a goal in argumentative writing, which entails balanced argumentation schema. Although computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has been widely acknowledged as language learning mediation, especially in writing, few studies investigate its effectiveness in activating the balanced argumentation schema. This study explores the effectiveness of QQ group discussion, a kind of CSCL mediation most popular in China, in argu…
Relevance theory perspective of emojis used by Chinese younger and older adults in WeChat
Computer-mediated communication is so popular in social interaction that Cyberpragmatics has been formulated to study emojis from the perspective of Relevance Theory. According to Relevance Theory, individuals tend to select information that provides the most significant cognitive benefits while requiring the least processing effort during comprehension. Emojis, as concise and efficient communication stimuli, can demonstrate how interlocutors of …
Can AI Argue More Sufficiently and Tactfully
Although AI-generated texts are increasingly attractive to the EFL/ESL researchers and teachers, few studies have examined those texts from logical and rhetorical perspectives. This study explored whether AI model can argue more sufficiently and tactfully than human writers. The data source consisted of 60 argumentative essays from EFL learners’ written corpus and a parallel ChatGPT-written corpus. Content analysis and quantitative analysis were …
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Rhetorical question (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Argumentative (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · History (3 works)