Education

• B.A., English Language and Literature, Anhui Normal University

• M.A., Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Science and Technology of China

• Ph.D. candidate, Discourse Analysis, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Research interests

• Pragmatics

• Discourse analysis

• Corpus linguistics

• Computer-assisted language learning

Current research project

• Chinese adolescent situated discourse: A corpus-based research

True Xu

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• Xu's Mentors and Friends

• Hobbies

Academic Resource Center

Bibliography 

• Bibliography of discourse marker

• Bibliography of researches on adolescent language

• Bibliography of corpus linguistics

• Bibliography of discourse analysis in general

• Bibliography of pragmatics (speech act, politeness, deixis, relevance, etc)

• Bibliography of CALL

Academic links

• Contemporary Linguistics

• Contemporary Linguistics 2

• The Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research

• List of Key Journals (Foreign Language and Linguistics) in China

Some of my manuscripts

• Linguistic and Methodological Rationale for Multimodal Approach to Language

• Introducing the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese

• Speech recognition technology used in CALL software in China

• Problems and Coping Strategies of Speech Data Collection

• Structural and Functional Approaches to Discourse Analysis: A Critical Overview 

• Theoretical Understanding Towards Corpus Linguistics

• A Constructivist Framework for Computer-Assisted Language Learning Software Design 

• Review of Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation

• Recent Issues in Discourse Analysis

• Individualism ≠ geren (individual-)+zhuyi (-ism)   

• (With Ren Xiaotao) Application of Textual Function to the Teaching of English Listening

• Co-authored books: Book cover images: Campus English and Vocabulary and Grammar for CET Band 6

• A Bilingual Dictionary of Frequently Used Foreign Words and Phrases in English

Developments in linguistics

• Linguists and linguistics links

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Last update: May 2004