Autor: Zhong Chen

Dr. Chen Zhong is a professor of linguistics at Beijing Language and Culture University. He received his Ph D in linguistics at Fudan University in 2002. He had been a member of the faculty at Shanghai International Studies University before 2007 and had been a visiting scholar at Georgia State University for four years. Dr. Chen focuses on comparative research on cross-cultural cognitive mind-set conversion between Chinese and English from a perspective of cognitive linguistics, syntax, semantics, and cross-cultural communication. He also researches the relationship between sentence structure and function in order to examine the matching principles among syntax, semantics, and cognition. He has published four books, including Cognitive Linguistics as well as dozens of articles on journals such as Studies of the Chinese Language, Contemporary Linguistics, and Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, February 2015, Volume 50:1. E-mail: [email protected].