zhao wenchao
phd in linguistics
associated professor
email：w_yxyseu@seu.edu.cn
research interests (sfl-informed/inspired)
academic discourse
language teaching
academic translation
social interaction
language typology
cross-linguistic variation
english and chinese lexicogrammar
educational background：
2015-2017: shanghai jiao tong university, postdoc
2016-2017: sydney university, visiting scholar
2010-2014: xiamen university, ph.d.
2003-2006: dalian university of foreign languages, ma
1997-2000: zhengzhou university, ba
work experience：
2022.03-the present: southeast university
2006.07-2022.01: henan university of science and technology
recent publications:
1. li cuiying, zhang dongbing, zhao wenchao*, mouxuqin & zuo hongshan. (translation). learning to write, reading to learn: genre, knowledge and pedagogy in sydney school. foreign language teaching and research press. 2022.
2. zhao, wenchao. 2020. exploring college english teaching of rhetorical knowledge: a legitimation code theory analysis. language teaching research. [ssci]
3. zhao, wenchao. 2020. building axiological affiliation in televised chinese job interviews: attitudinal evaluations and their communication. text & talk. [ahci & ssci]
4. maton, karl, li cuiying, zhao, wenchao* & zhang, dongbing. 2020. seeing the world differently. educational linguistics studies (2).
5. zhao, wenchao. 2017. review: hybridity in systemic functional linguistics: grammar, text and discursive context. discourse studies. [ssci]
6. zhao, wenchao. 2017. review: language and law. australian journal of linguistics. [ssci]
7. zhao, wenchao. 2016. on the ideational fractal thinking in systemic functional linguistics.
modern foreign languages. (5). [cssci]
8. knowledge representation in middle school science textbooks: from the perspective of ideational fractals. science press. 2016.
9. zhao, wenchao. 2016. review: discourse and knowledge: a socio-cognitive approach. discourse studies. [ssci]
10. zhao, wenchao. 2016. review: the bloomsbury companion to m. a. k. halliday. journal of linguistics. [ssci]
11. zhao, wenchao. 2015. a discussion of the relationship between metadiscourse and intersubjectivity. journal of ningbo university (liberal arts edition) (1).
12. zhao, wenchao. 2015. review: interviews with m. a. k. halliday: language turned back on himself. english for specific purposes. [ssci]
13. zhao, wenchao. 2014. review: multimodal studies: exploring issues and domains. visual communication. [ssci]
14. zhao, wenchao. 2013. review: critical discourse studies in context and cognition. discourse & society. [ssci]
15. zhao, wenchao. 2013. review: pragmatics for language educators: a sociolinguistic perspective modern foreign languages (2). [cssci]
recent research projects
1. the meaning behavior of quality groups in english and chinese academic discourse. 2020. (supported by the national social science foundation of china)
2. a cross-linguistic study of the coupling patterns of attitudinal evaluations in english and chinese academic discourse. 2019. (supported by the humanities and social science foundation of china’s ministry of education)