Heng Gong

Biographic Data

ID4070165
NAMEHeng Gong
GIVEN NAMESHeng
FAMILY NAMEGong
SIGNATUREGONG H
AFFILIATIONSFujian Normal University
ORCID0000-0003-3755-5328
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Cross-sectional distribution of authorial presence in medicine research articles

    Open AccessHeng Gong, Louisa BuckinghamARTICLEEnglish for Specific Purposes2026

  • Interactive metadiscourse across languages and writer groups

    Open AccessHeng Gong, Feng Cao et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Corpus…2025References: 8

    Although English has become a lingua franca for academic publication, a growing number of multilingual scholars prefer to publish in both English and their first languages. This corpus-based study investigates how Chinese scholars in applied linguistics deploy interactive metadiscourse in their published Chinese and L2 English research articles, compared with those of L1 English writers. Both Chinese character( zì )-based and word( cí )-based uni…

  • Lexical bundles across IMRD-structured Medicine research article sections

    Open AccessHeng Gong, Thi Ngoc Phuong Le et al.ARTICLEJournal of English for Academic…2025References: 32

  • A corpus-based analysis of research article macrostructure patterns

    Open AccessHeng Gong, M G BARLOWARTICLEJournal of English for Academic…2022

    This study investigates how the macrostructure patterns (MSPs) of research articles (RAs) are distributed across different disciplines. The investigation is based on the Elsevier OA CC-BY corpus consisting of 76,835 RAs from 26 disciplines coming from Health Sciences (HS), Social Sciences and Humanities (SH), Life Sciences (LS), and Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE). In this study, we identify 72 salient patterns and show that a higher ratio…

  • A Cross-Linguistic Study of Interactional Metadiscourse in English and Chinese Research Articles by the Same Chinese Scholars

    Heng Gong, Lingling Liu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language Identity &…2021Cited by: 2References: 8

    This study investigates how Chinese scholars in Applied Linguistics construct different authorial stances in their English and Chinese research articles (RAs) by using interactional metadiscourse comprising boosters, hedges, and self-mentions. A specially designed corpus of 22 Chinese and 22 English RAs written by the same group of Chinese scholars was compiled and examined for metadiscourse forms and functions. We found that (a) while the Chines…