Feng Jiang
Biographic Data
| ID | 92904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Feng Jiang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Feng |
| FAMILY NAME | Jiang |
| SIGNATURE | JIANG F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jilin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7369-9498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 151 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 151 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Spatiotemporal evolution mechanism of urban investment-vitality-carbon efficiency
Evaluative language in sociology lecturers’ discourse
The rhetorical legacy of John Swales
This paper explores the enduring influence of John Swales on applied linguistics, focusing on how his distinctive authorial style, particularly his use of metadiscourse, contributed to the persuasive power of his scholarship. While Swales is widely celebrated for his theoretical innovations in genre analysis, discourse community, and English for Academic Purposes, we argue that his rhetorical style was of major importance in promoting his ideas a…
Stance in REF Submissions
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the U.K. government’s means of allocating funding to universities based on assessments of the research they produce. Conducted every five years, this exercise now includes not only the ‘quality’ of research but also its real-world ‘impact’. This helps determine the £7.16 billion distributed annually to universities and influences the reputations of institutions and academics. Writers are therefore keen t…
Teaching English with Chinese characteristics
English language teaching has had a chequered history in China, reflecting an increasing desire to modernise and participate on the world stage combined with a watchful caution against importing unwanted cultural elements. Change, however, has proceeded rapidly in the last 35 years, and China now provides around 700,000 postgraduate students annually to Western universities. Given this importance to western universities and the concerns surroundi…
Distinguishing climate change worry from state climate anxiety across 32 countries
The concepts of “climate change worry” and “climate change anxiety” are often used interchangeably in climate research, but they may reflect distinct emotional responses to climate change, which could potentially have different implications for public mental health. This research brief aims to empirically examine the differences between these two constructs by comparing their associations with key indicators of subjective wellbeing. Using survey …
Taking a stance
The rapid rise of ChatGPT has generated considerable anxiety among teachers concerned that students might turn to large language models to write their assignments. This AI-powered language model is able to create grammatically accurate and coherent texts, thus potentially enabling cheating and undermining literacy and critical thinking skills. While research has begun to examine linguistic and rhetorical differences between AI-generated and human…
Exemplification in ChatGPT and student argumentative writing
Rhetorical evolution in mathematical modelling
Evolving themes and trends in business English research
EAP in a changing world
Does ChatGPT Argue Like Students? Bundles in Argumentative Essays
The advent of ChatGPT, a novel AI-powered language model able to create grammatically accurate and coherent texts, has generated considerable concern among educationalists anxious about its potential to enable cheating among students and to undermine the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and literacy skills. The similarities and differences between ChatGPT texts and human writing, however, remain underexplored. This study aims to…
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Central to applied linguistics, discourse analysis explores how language works in relation to particular social contexts, revealing the way meanings are conveyed, relationships established, and interactions managed, so mediates between linguistics and language use (Hyland 2013). All these are essential for developing effective communication strategies in various fields like education, business, and social services, but the rapid development of co…
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions
This paper examines the use of hyperbolic and promotional language, or ‘hype’, in the impact case studies submitted to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), a major research evaluation exercise for UK higher education institutions. With substantial funding and institutional reputations at stake, REF submissions are high-stakes texts that may incentivize rhetorical embellishment to demonstrate research impact. We conducted a corpus-based a…
Analysis of potential categories and influencing factors of chronic disease comorbidity patterns among residents of Yantai City based on the health ecology model
Objective: To explore the latent category characteristics of chronic disease comorbidity among residents in Yantai City, Shandong Province, based on the theoretical framework of the health ecology model, and to identify key factors influencing different comorbidity patterns, thereby providing scientific basis for formulating targeted chronic disease prevention and control strategies. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Yantai City …
Unraveling the interconnectedness between physician burnout and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased the levels of burnout and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress among healthcare professionals. However, research on the interrelations between burnout and psychological symptoms is scarce, particularly among psychiatrists. This study addresses this gap in a national sample. Method: Data was collected via an online survey conducted in Mainland China from January to March 2021 with a …
When reviewers negate and authors navigate
Guiding and engaging the audience
Rhetorical distinctions
Does ChatGPT Write Like a Student? Engagement Markers in Argumentative Essays
ChatGPT has created considerable anxiety among teachers concerned that students might turn to large language models (LLMs) to write their assignments. Many of these models are able to create grammatically accurate and coherent texts, thus potentially enabling cheating and undermining literacy and critical thinking skills. This study seeks to explore the extent LLMs can mimic human-produced texts by comparing essays by ChatGPT and student writers.…
Scholarly discourse
English for Research and Publication Purposes (ERPP) has rapidly emerged as a productive area of second language writing research as the number of academics, journals and articles has exploded across the world. In this paper we use bibliometric methods to track changes in published work in ERPP over the last 40 years. Based on all 4,354 articles on the topic in Web of Science indexed journals between 1982 and 2022, we show what research themes ha…
Bibliometric and visual analysis of global research on endocrine-disrupting chemicals and children’s health
BACKGROUND: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are environmental pollutants that interfere with hormonal systems and may pose serious risks to children's health during critical developmental stages. Despite many studies, a comprehensive overview of global research trends is still lacking. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to provide a comprehensive bibliometric and visual analysis of global research trends on EDCs and pediatric health over the past …
Negotiating the path to publication
Scale of employees’ initiative for proactive health
The scale demonstrated reasonable and reliable measurement of EIPH among Chinese participants
Subsurface cooling trend in the Southern Tropical Indian Ocean (1958–2023) linked with global warming and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
Over the past 66 years, the upper ocean heat content (OHC, 0–400 m) in the Southern tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) has not increased despite ongoing global warming and rapid local sea surface temperature rises. Here we show that the decrease in OHC is primarily due to the local subsurface cooling at depths of approximately 60–400 m. The increasing cyclonic surface wind stress in the TIO has intensified Ekman pumping locally, thereby enhancing vertic…
Preferred Interpersonal Distances
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of…
Does digital dividend matter in China's green low-carbon development
A bibliometric study of EAP research
Does EAP affect written L2 academic stance? A longitudinal learner corpus study
Impact of a Large-Scale Science Intervention Focused on English Language Learners
The authors evaluated the effects of P-SELL, a science curricular and professional development intervention for fifth-grade students with a focus on English language learners (ELLs). Using a randomized controlled trial design with 33 treatment and 33 control schools across three school districts in one state, we found significant and meaningfully sized intervention effects on a researcher-developed science assessment and the state science assessm…
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were ba…
Metadiscourse across languages and genres
The fact that
The linguistic resources used by academic writers to adopt a position and engage with readers, variously described as evaluation, stance and metadiscourse, have attracted considerable attention in recent years. A relatively overlooked means of expressing a stance, however, is through a Noun Complement structure, where a stance head noun takes a nominal complement clause. This pattern allows a writer to front-load attitude meanings and offers an e…
How Belief in a Just World Benefits Mental Health
Past research suggests that individuals’ belief in a just world (BJW) is closely connected with their mental health. To clarify the underlying mechanism, the current study proposes that BJW encourages optimism and gratitude which then mediates the relationship between BJW and mental health as indicated by subjective well-being (SWB) and depression. A sample of 1,200 undergraduates yields results indicating that (a) BJW influences optimism, gratit…
The Covid infodemic
Covid-19, the greatest global health crisis for a century, brought a new immediacy and urgency to international bio-medical research. The pandemic generated intense competition to produce a vaccine and contain the virus, creating what the World Health Organization referred to as an ‘infodemic’ of published output. In this frantic atmosphere, researchers were keen to get their research noticed. In this paper, we explore whether this enthusiasm inf…
Academic lexical bundles
An important component of fluent linguistic production and a key distinguishing feature of particular modes, registers and genres is the multi-word expressions referred to as ‘lexical bundles’. These are extended collocations which appear more frequently than expected by chance, helping to shape meanings and contributing to our sense of coherence and distinctiveness in a text. These strings have been studied extensively, particularly in academic …
Text-organizing metadiscourse
Published academic writing often seems to be an unchanging form of discourse with its frozen informality remaining stable over time. Recent work has shown, however, that these texts are highly interactive and dialogic as writers anticipate and take into account readers’ likely objections, background knowledge, rhetorical expectations and processing needs. In this paper, we explore one aspect of these interactions and how it has changed over the p…
Stance and voice in academic writing
Stance and voice are two crucial elements of social interactions in academic writing. However, their conceptual constructs are elusive and their linguistic realisation is not fully explored. A relatively overlooked feature is the “noun + that ” structure, where a stance head noun takes a nominal complement clause (as advantage that in Flow cytometry offers the advantage that long term is available ). This construction allows a writer to express a…
Covid‐19 in the news
The year 2020 was the year of COVID‐19. In this paper we seek to identify the changing concerns of the international press to unfolding events of the COVID pandemic throughout 2020. Based on a 12.3‐million‐word corpus, we explore keyword nouns and verbs and frequent noun phrases to understand the central concerns of the public reflected in its news media. Results show that news in the early months was dominated by the symptoms of the virus, with …
Influence of Cultural Meaning System and Socioeconomic Change on Indecisiveness in Three Cultures
Psychologists have debated two external factors that influence human behaviors: current socioeconomic changes and historically shared cultural meaning systems. By conducting triangular comparisons among Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, and European Canadians, the current study examined whether these two factors differentially influence people's indecisiveness. We found that (a) Hong Kong Chinese participants' level of indecisiveness was highe…
Up or Down? How Culture and Color Affect Judgments
In the Mainland China stock market, an upmarket is represented by the color red, whereas a downmarket is represented by the color green. Elsewhere, including the Chinese Hong Kong stock market, the color representations are the opposite. Three studies were conducted to examine the red‐up–green‐down effect for Mainland Chinese as well as the green‐up–red‐down effect for Hong Kong people. Study 1 showed that Mainland Chinese tended to predict great…
Communicating disciplinary knowledge to a wide audience in 3MT presentations
3MT (Three-minute thesis) presentations, in which students communicate their theses to non-specialist audiences within three minutes, have emerged as an important academic genre, echoing current practices in scientific communication where researchers report their research work to a heterogeneous audience. Although increasing attention has been paid to 3MT presentations, we still lack sufficient knowledge of how presenters should communicate disci…
Chronology of a late Neolithic Age site near the southern coastal region of Fujian, China
An archaeological site at Anshan in the coastal area of Fujian province, southern China, was excavated in 2007, 2009 and 2015. Abundant artefacts including adzes, cores, bronze fishhook, pottery and bone arrowheads are found in the aeolian sediments. The aim of this article is to understand the geomorphological backdrop and process of Anshan site, and the coupling relationship between human activity and environmental evolution. In this study, opt…
Abstracts in Academic Discourse
Exemplification and its local grammar patterns in English as an academic lingua franca in research writing
The function of love
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
These findings are very astonishing”
The changing landscape of scientific communication raises new academic contexts in which research postgraduate students are exposed to diversified forms of interaction and a less predictable audience. Against this backdrop Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations have emerged, although we have not yet developed sufficient knowledge about how students present their research work to diverse audiences. In this study, we compared 80 students’ hyping p…
When my wrongs are worse than yours
True versus strategic fairness in a common resource dilemma
Common resource dilemmas involve collectively coordinating individual choices to promote group efficiency. Equal division represents one of the most important coordination rules. Previous research suggests that individuals follow the equality rule for different reasons. Some individuals behave cooperatively out of their concern for other's welfare, whereas some individuals cooperate strategically to enhance personal gains. Building on the dual‐pr…
Anti-Nociceptive Effects Induced by Intrathecal Injection of BMK As, a Polypeptide From the Venom of Chinese-Scorpion Buthus Martensi Karsch, in Rat Formalin Test
A Four-Step Method for Optimising the Normal Water Level of Reservoirs Based on a Mathematical Programming Model—A Case Study for the Songyuan Backwater Dam in Jilin Province, China
Determination of the optimal normal water level of reservoirs (RNWL) was investigated, incorporating environmental ecology as a primary consideration. RNWL constitutes a relatively significant eigenvalue of any water conservancy project. In the present study, a four-step method based on a mathematical programming model and suitable for RNWL decision making was developed and applied to the water conservancy project of the Songyuan backwater dam in…
Different Attitudes toward Humor between Chinese and American Students
Although cross-cultural research indicates that Chinese people demonstrate less humor than do Americans, little research addresses the reasons. This cross-cultural difference may be largely due to different implicit attitudes toward humor held by Chinese and Americans, deeply rooted in the two cultural traditions. Both self-report evaluation and the Implicit Association Test (IAT) were used to compare Chinese and American attitudes toward humor. …
Up or Down? How Culture and Color Affect Judgments
In the Mainland China stock market, an upmarket is represented by the color red, whereas a downmarket is represented by the color green. Elsewhere, including the Chinese Hong Kong stock market, the color representations are the opposite. Three studies were conducted to examine the red‐up–green‐down effect for Mainland Chinese as well as the green‐up–red‐down effect for Hong Kong people. Study 1 showed that Mainland Chinese tended to predict great…
Humor Styles, Self-Esteem, and Subjective Happiness
This study examined how humor styles could mediate the effect of self-esteem on subjective happiness. 227 Hong Kong undergraduate students completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire, the Roxsenberg Self-esteem Scale, and the Subjective Happiness Scale. Results showed adaptive humor styles (affiliative humor and self-enhancing humor) significantly predicted self-esteem and subjective happiness and mediated the relationship between self-esteem and su…
The fact that
The linguistic resources used by academic writers to adopt a position and engage with readers, variously described as evaluation, stance and metadiscourse, have attracted considerable attention in recent years. A relatively overlooked means of expressing a stance, however, is through a Noun Complement structure, where a stance head noun takes a nominal complement clause. This pattern allows a writer to front-load attitude meanings and offers an e…
“We must conclude that…”
Change of Attitude? A Diachronic Study of Stance
Successful research writers construct texts by taking a novel point of view toward the issues they discuss while anticipating readers’ imagined reactions to those views. This intersubjective positioning is encompassed by the term stance and, in various guises, has been a topic of interest to researchers of written communication and applied linguists for the past three decades. Recognizing that academic writing is less objective and “author evacua…
Nouns and Academic Interactions
Metadiscourse has received considerable attention in recent years as a way of understanding the rhetorical negotiations involved in academic writing. But while a useful tool in revealing something of the dynamic interactions which underlie persuasive claim making, it has little to say about the role of nouns in this process. We address this gap by exploring the rhetorical functions of what we call metadiscursive nouns (such as fact, analysis, bel…
Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray
Journal Article Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray: Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing Get access Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray: Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Feng (Kevin) Jiang Feng (Kevin) Jiang Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this a…
Abstracts in Academic Discourse
Impact of a Large-Scale Science Intervention Focused on English Language Learners
The authors evaluated the effects of P-SELL, a science curricular and professional development intervention for fifth-grade students with a focus on English language learners (ELLs). Using a randomized controlled trial design with 33 treatment and 33 control schools across three school districts in one state, we found significant and meaningfully sized intervention effects on a researcher-developed science assessment and the state science assessm…
Influence of Cultural Meaning System and Socioeconomic Change on Indecisiveness in Three Cultures
Psychologists have debated two external factors that influence human behaviors: current socioeconomic changes and historically shared cultural meaning systems. By conducting triangular comparisons among Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, and European Canadians, the current study examined whether these two factors differentially influence people's indecisiveness. We found that (a) Hong Kong Chinese participants' level of indecisiveness was highe…
How Belief in a Just World Benefits Mental Health
Past research suggests that individuals’ belief in a just world (BJW) is closely connected with their mental health. To clarify the underlying mechanism, the current study proposes that BJW encourages optimism and gratitude which then mediates the relationship between BJW and mental health as indicated by subjective well-being (SWB) and depression. A sample of 1,200 undergraduates yields results indicating that (a) BJW influences optimism, gratit…
Is academic writing becoming more informal?
‘We Believe That … ’
This paper explores changes in the use of an important pattern used by writers in all disciplines to present an authorial stance: the structure Hyland and Tse call evaluative that. This construction allows writers to front-load utterances with attitudinal meanings and offer an explicit evaluation of the proposition which follows. Linguists have tended to regard this as separate patterns, but seeing it as a single structure of a matrix clause [eva…
Unpacking the Gender Differences on Mental Health
Mental health studies show that women are likely to score higher on subjective well-being and higher on depression than men. To verify this, the present study collected a sample of 5648 undergraduates in 55 universities in China. Results showed that women reported higher optimism, gratitude, subjective well-being, and depression than men, and that optimism and gratitude mediated the relationship between gender and mental health (subjective well-b…
Stance and voice in academic writing
Stance and voice are two crucial elements of social interactions in academic writing. However, their conceptual constructs are elusive and their linguistic realisation is not fully explored. A relatively overlooked feature is the “noun + that ” structure, where a stance head noun takes a nominal complement clause (as advantage that in Flow cytometry offers the advantage that long term is available ). This construction allows a writer to express a…
Chronology of a late Neolithic Age site near the southern coastal region of Fujian, China
An archaeological site at Anshan in the coastal area of Fujian province, southern China, was excavated in 2007, 2009 and 2015. Abundant artefacts including adzes, cores, bronze fishhook, pottery and bone arrowheads are found in the aeolian sediments. The aim of this article is to understand the geomorphological backdrop and process of Anshan site, and the coupling relationship between human activity and environmental evolution. In this study, opt…
Does EAP affect written L2 academic stance? A longitudinal learner corpus study
Preferred Interpersonal Distances
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of…
“In this paper we suggest”
‘This is because … ’
While the tension between stylistic prescriptions and authorial practice in academic writing has attracted much attention in recent years, one common feature which is less fully explored is whether to attend demonstrative this (as in ‘this uncertainty is because ... ’) or to leave this unattended (as in ‘this is because ... ’). Based on a corpus of 160 research articles from eight disciplines, this study explores the authorial practice of this rh…
Changing patterns of self-citation
Self-citations are a familiar, if sometimes controversial, element of academic knowledge construction and reputation-building, contributing to both the cumulative nature of academic research and helping writers to promote their scientific authority and enhance their careers. As scholarly publications become more specialized, more collaborative and more important for promotion and tenure, we might expect self-citation to play a more visible role i…
The Implementation of China's Mental Health Law-Defined Risk Criteria for Involuntary Admission
Objective: Involuntary admission is one of the most controversial issues in psychiatry in China. This study aimed to examine the implementation of the new risk criteria for involuntary admission, as defined by the new Mental Health Law (MHL), in major psychiatric hospitals; and to explore factors associated with the implementation. Method: We selected 32 psychiatric hospitals in 29 provincial capital cities in mainland China. We included all invo…
Psychology (81 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (53 works) · Computer Science (50 works) · Linguistics (49 works) · Sociology (47 works) · Medicine (46 works) · Social Psychology (36 works) · Philosophy (31 works) · China (28 works) · Psychiatry (26 works)